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Old 09-19-2005, 12:27 PM   #67 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Chino
If you doubt their effectiveness as a fighting force - it might be due to their lack of firepower, support etc. But as individual riflemen, they're much better motivated, more prepared for sacrifice and better suited to being infantry soldiers than were the average American conscript at the time.
As a regular infanteer? I doubt it. Their casualty rates ain't nothing to brag about, even when they have superior firepower as they did at DBP. All you telling me here is that they have good leaders who knew how to use canon fodder.

Only live infanteers can be good infanteers.
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