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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Most of those rules still apply today, if somewhat updated and improved upon.
Makes you think just how lax things were a hundred plus years ago and how little most soldiers and officers knew about light, sound, and smell discipline (and a lot still don't!).
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All too true!
Then you get a book like "Black Hawk Down" and its story of how a "elite" unit like the Rangers, forget to bring such basics as canteens, NVGs and even reserve ammo on a combat mission.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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