ParaMarine
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Speaking about the ETO, the common cliche from memoirs and histories is how veterans (more like lucky survivors to hear them tell it) would ignore replacements because they didn’t want to get attached to someone who would soon be dead.
Having had kin who fought and died in the war long before I was born, I believe that the level of training for the army was subpar in those days. Knowing how important it is now and also knowing the roots of problems like this, it is especially unacceptable.
The question is: what are the exceptions? Aside from maybe a few outstanding sergeants who disobeyed orders or took initiative and actually trained their men, what are the big level units who imposed a higher standard? I’d like to know what anyone else has found because it isn’t easy to research - every division had different SOPs and most of the written material hasn’t survived or been distributed at all.
Having had kin who fought and died in the war long before I was born, I believe that the level of training for the army was subpar in those days. Knowing how important it is now and also knowing the roots of problems like this, it is especially unacceptable.
The question is: what are the exceptions? Aside from maybe a few outstanding sergeants who disobeyed orders or took initiative and actually trained their men, what are the big level units who imposed a higher standard? I’d like to know what anyone else has found because it isn’t easy to research - every division had different SOPs and most of the written material hasn’t survived or been distributed at all.