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Discussion in 'What If - Other' started by Kai-Petri, Oct 13, 2002.

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  1. A-58

    A-58 Cool Dude

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    Same here. Couldn't have said it better. I'm sure that your actions that day are in your thoughts every day.
     
    A-58, Apr 16, 2009
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    Thanks for this post. It's always good to hear from someone who has been there explain his reasoning. It's so much more meaningful than what some of our less thoughtful members have posted. Thanks for your service and your willingness to share it with us.
     
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  3. Heidi

    Heidi Dishonorably Discharged

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    i can see why air-bourne is one of the favorites to be fighting in!
    you are flying and takinng part with the airforce forces and than you take part in the ground forces,doing to jobs at one time,risking you're life twice,i think i would take part in this history event aswell (air-bourne).
     
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  4. Drew5233

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    I would have been somewhere like Iceland or the Falklands doing a stores job :)
     
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  5. A-58

    A-58 Cool Dude

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    Iceland would have been better....More women there....And closer to home!
     
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    Iceland it is then.....Where do I sign up?
     
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    Defending Poland in 1939. Give me a Polish uniform, a Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35, give me a few months to learn how to properly say Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35, and we're in business. Take that, Panzer IIs.
     
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    Watch out, I heard that Panzer II formations have Panzergrenadier, 105mm artillery, and Stuka support..
     
    Wolfy, Apr 17, 2009
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    A minor inconvenience.
     
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    wtid45 Ace

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    I APPROVE! you sir served your country in time of war you saw it, did it, and have the t-shirt unlike some who post on here;)
     
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    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    The polar bears were there....the division not the bears...Drew goes to Iceland, nice and safe..ends up marching thru Arnhem, takes a camera....

    Nope Icelands not safe...You end up being Monty's flank.

    I stick by my original and earlier decision, Bemuda coastal artillery.

    I have a towel, a bucket and a spade....War us hell.
     
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    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    How dare you....Wtid...I have a t shirt...Drew is sending me one with a tank on the front which I will wear proudly to my RAF reunions.

    At least my t shirt will be up to date...yours I take it will have Michael Caine on front in a pith helmet. I thought we had seen off the welsh...
     
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    I still quite like the Falklands....the only excitement they had was during the hunt for the Graf Spee when a damaged cruiser turned up :)
     
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    A-58 Cool Dude

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    That outfit that you are referring to sounds more like an reserve auxilliary beach engineering unit, which doesn't sound like a bad alternative either. It wouldn't be a bad posting in the Bahamas. You'd be in the best position to flank the Germans in case they launched an attack on Miami, or North Carolina....
     
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  15. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    What and fight???? No one mentioned fighting....I'm off to Port Stanley, join Drew and count the penguins...
     
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    A-58 Cool Dude

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    Fine, I'll just drink pina colodas and wait here at the tiki bar for the marines to show up....And then we'll drink beer and through beer cans at the U-boat crews when they come ashore for provisions....
     
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    HE:D HE:D Dont worry Urqh I will send you my Charlie dont surf t-shirt....................Michael Caine, what part of Wales is he from;)
     
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  18. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    The Rourkes Drift part.
     
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    wtid45 Ace

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    Ah yes you mean Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, 2nd/24th foot VC who was born in France, of course and led that fine body of Welshmen at RORKE'S DRIFT.
     
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    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    Bromhead was French? Well flipping heck...I never knew that...See the Welsh are so desperate to be led by anyone but the English....Good job then...If he had been English, he would have been on his horse shouting follow me men..wheres Cape Town...
     
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