Re: [SGII] [DSII] 170th North American Infantry

At 6:33 AM -0800 11/26/03, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>Right.  But with Brit politicians in charge, we'd
>start doing things in a screwball hybrid of the US and
>Brit system, which is what I'm trying to go for here.

The Tribalism of British units really seems to help their 
esprit-de-corps quite a bit. So US units that can trace their 
heritage back a long way is actually very NACish. I'd like to see 
more of it in the US army, but it's so damnably bent on uniformity 
it's almost funny (in a nation of very strong individuals).

I'm waiting on some Cavalry General to bring back Stetsons and ditch 
the black berets (which are rightfully an Armored Formation head wear 
in spite of anything the damn rangers claim. )
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