Heh, whether by choice or circumstances, once you retire it’s
painful to come back out. I’m sure they have enough to deal
with just surviving.
It seems they are all talking to the recruits, feeling out how
they are doing and how they feel about training and such.
Plus it’s letting all of them know that the PTB are watching
out for them.
If training is not intense and dangerous,
combat will be much more dangerous than it has to be.
I would not be comfortable reasoning from that to
“Lives lost in training save lives in action,”
but Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan certainly did.
OTOH, we kicked their rears eventually.
Every military knows this, that training can be just
as deadly as war. They signed their name to the check,
“Up to and including….”, as did we all.
Those that died in training just had theirs cashed
before everyone else’s.
Rest In Peace, Brothers-In-Arms, you are never forgotten.
Then there all the “Fergusons”. Supposedly when asked their name some Germans replied,
“Ich Vergessen”. (“V” in German is pronounced like “F” in English) So the worker at Ellis
Island logged “Ferguson” for their last name.
This is a common story. Heck, even in my family, the claim was that my great-grandfather, who was 3/4 Danish and 1/4 French but who had the last name “LaBlanche,” hated the French and changed the name to a slightly less French “Blanche” when he came through Ellis Island. A great story (and probably evidence of a Huguenot ancestor), but it wasn’t true. I have relatives still in Denmark with the name last name Blanche. And researchers say that probably very little of it really happened. Why? Because Immigration worked from a manifest from the ship. Those names were from identification cards and passports from the home country, and were carefully typed or printed in such a way that the names were clearly legible and the same name the immigrants boarded the ship with, and applied for admission with. Did names change after admission to the US? Almost certainly. Even today, there are areas that are less than strenuous with their ID work. And for at least 50 years, maybe 75, names did a lot of changing. I’ve heard Eisenhower was spelled something like 13 different ways in Ike’s background. And any genetic researcher will tell you that it’s not unusual to find people who “disappeared,” especially from populous areas on the eastern half of the country, only to show up somewhere else with an entirely different name. But it turns out Ellis Island is not the culprit, here.
Haha, I remember when I was in US literally nobody could say correctly my name. People even had problems with writing my name having my passport.
A university ID card had to be replaced, because they misspelled my name 🙂
Anyway, try it for yourself: Krzysztof
There are a huge number of “Americanized” words in our language,
yeah is from “YA” which is german for “yes” and so on. The memory
card fell out of my head, I used to have a loooong list…
Now I get the swirly-do and the “Please wait” then “drive not found”
message…
Except that Warclaw is from the Kingdom of Poland. He enlisted there and
was transported to Jerico for training. No Americanization of his name!
He’ll probably serve in Poland, as they have, y’know, barbarians on their border.
For now.
Heh. Poland might be about to re-activate their Winged Hussars.
Heh, whether by choice or circumstances, once you retire it’s
painful to come back out. I’m sure they have enough to deal
with just surviving.
It seems they are all talking to the recruits, feeling out how
they are doing and how they feel about training and such.
Plus it’s letting all of them know that the PTB are watching
out for them.
If training is not intense and dangerous,
combat will be much more dangerous than it has to be.
I would not be comfortable reasoning from that to
“Lives lost in training save lives in action,”
but Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan certainly did.
OTOH, we kicked their rears eventually.
When I was (much) younger, I had a WWII vet tell me, “We called them Nazi bastards,
but we’d never call them no-good Nazi bastards!”
Every military knows this, that training can be just
as deadly as war. They signed their name to the check,
“Up to and including….”, as did we all.
Those that died in training just had theirs cashed
before everyone else’s.
Rest In Peace, Brothers-In-Arms, you are never forgotten.
“As did we All!” .. Salute!
Warclaw is _not_ a Polish name, weather you like it or not… 😉
https://www.behindthename.com/name/wacl16aw
No one but the cadre could pronounce his last name,
and “War Claw” just sounded cool for an Imperial Marine,
even a larval one.
way back when,. (Elis Island)
Schnechel became Stanley..
Then there all the “Fergusons”. Supposedly when asked their name some Germans replied,
“Ich Vergessen”. (“V” in German is pronounced like “F” in English) So the worker at Ellis
Island logged “Ferguson” for their last name.
This is a common story. Heck, even in my family, the claim was that my great-grandfather, who was 3/4 Danish and 1/4 French but who had the last name “LaBlanche,” hated the French and changed the name to a slightly less French “Blanche” when he came through Ellis Island. A great story (and probably evidence of a Huguenot ancestor), but it wasn’t true. I have relatives still in Denmark with the name last name Blanche. And researchers say that probably very little of it really happened. Why? Because Immigration worked from a manifest from the ship. Those names were from identification cards and passports from the home country, and were carefully typed or printed in such a way that the names were clearly legible and the same name the immigrants boarded the ship with, and applied for admission with. Did names change after admission to the US? Almost certainly. Even today, there are areas that are less than strenuous with their ID work. And for at least 50 years, maybe 75, names did a lot of changing. I’ve heard Eisenhower was spelled something like 13 different ways in Ike’s background. And any genetic researcher will tell you that it’s not unusual to find people who “disappeared,” especially from populous areas on the eastern half of the country, only to show up somewhere else with an entirely different name. But it turns out Ellis Island is not the culprit, here.
Sorry about the long lines. I got distracted in the middle
of that and when I came back to it, I forgot about it. If I
could edit it, I would.
Ferguson is a Scottish name and it literally means Son of Fergus.
Haha, I remember when I was in US literally nobody could say correctly my name. People even had problems with writing my name having my passport.
A university ID card had to be replaced, because they misspelled my name 🙂
Anyway, try it for yourself: Krzysztof
Kerzies-toff?
NO,, no it’s not..
it is a American bastardization of
Wrocislaw.
Or any number of other Polish names that got “Americanized”.
There are a huge number of “Americanized” words in our language,
yeah is from “YA” which is german for “yes” and so on. The memory
card fell out of my head, I used to have a loooong list…
Now I get the swirly-do and the “Please wait” then “drive not found”
message…
Except that Warclaw is from the Kingdom of Poland. He enlisted there and
was transported to Jerico for training. No Americanization of his name!
He’ll probably serve in Poland, as they have, y’know, barbarians on their border.
For now.
Heh. Poland might be about to re-activate their Winged Hussars.
You guys reminded me this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U