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Re: Questions regarding NAC ground units, was SG IF morale

From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:37:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Questions regarding NAC ground units, was SG IF morale

At 4:24 AM -0800 11/30/01, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>Of course.  It's just the the Brits have far more
>poetic unit names (Scots Dragoon Guards, etc) than the
>US.  Unless you know the unit in question, "1-36
>Infantry" just doesn't have the same ring.  (Spartans!
> With lineage going back to the Civil War, IIRC).

US units place their stock in accomplishments and awards. Not the name.
:-p

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