Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?

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May 24, 2024, 12:33 AM

My favorite scene is in the Replacements when they ask the new guy why he was wearing the unit ribbon when he wasn't there for D-Day. Unit citations are worn by anybody in the unit for the history of the unit. So if I joined the 101st, I would wear the unit citations the 101st was awarded in the history of the unit. If you were in the unit when the unit citation is awarded, you can wear it for the rest of your time in the Army, even if you leave the unit. Unit citations are worn above the right pocket on the uniform.

So the new guy was right in wearing the ribbon, but I like the older, salty NCOs telling him to take it off.

Close second was when Winters had enough of Sobel's BS and signed the letter requesting court marshall instead of taking BS punishment. Officers like Sobel exist in the military, and they get promoted by pushing others down instead of lifting them up. Happens in the civilian sector too unfortunately.

Third then is the NCOs risking everything going to the Batallion commander resigning their NCO status saying they don't want to go to battle with Sobel. I had to one time do something similiar in Afghanistan with a new E8 that came to my unit. He was going to get people killed so we went to the SGM and got rid of him. Scariest moment of my military career doing that.... but it worked out.

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take the Beaches of Normandy tour. I took the 7-day guided tour last year and was amazed by it. During the tour I stood in the observation bunker and looked through the slit through which the German observer saw the invasion fleet and reported it up the line. They told him it was impossible for the Allies to have that many ships ready to attack and he said "Come here and tell me what I'm looking at, then!".

The tour takes you through all of the gun pill boxes and ammo stores along all of the beaches, through churches where Germans machine-gunned wounded, through many burial sites (included the US Normandy cemetery at flag-lowering accompianied by Taps) and through many, many museums that display American and German equipment along with extremely lifelike wax soldiers in very lifelike scenes.

The last day of the tour was spen visiting Mont Saint-Michel, an unbelievable place.

It was an incredible tour with an unbelievable young lady from Budapest as our guide. She was very qualified with a history degree with special studies in WW2.

Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?

Drinking Hitler's booze at the Eagles Nest.

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