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Marine1091 10 points ago +10 / -0

Audie was just in for the duration of WWII. Unfortunately, they would not let him into West Point to continue his career as an officer. Audie fought as bravely as Chesty, but he was not a Battalion CO or Regimental CO. I am quite sure that Murphy would have made a great CO on ANY level had he remained in the military. Btw, as many of you may know, millions of very able soldiers and Marines were let go at the end of WWII as demobilization destroyed many billets - just no room in a very downsized force. Even men who wanted to stay in were told to go away.

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Marine1091 6 points ago +6 / -0

Very few of these. When I was a Marine O. what I observed is that most WMs caused problems. Corps would be better off without them. Also, in my OSC Company (way back in 84), the WMs attrition rate was almost double the males even though their PFT standards were much lower. am I sexist? Yes, I am. Truth is the biggest casualty of this age of political correctness that we live in. Everyone wants to lie to sound politically correct. Fortunately, I am an old dude now and would rather just flat out tell people what I think.