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During the brutal winter at Valley Forge, Washington frequently made the rounds to comfort and boost the morale of his men. One day he chanced upon a certain Private John Brantley drinking stolen wine with some fellow soldiers:
Brantley boosily invited his commander to "drink some wine with a soldier."
"My boy, you have no time for drinking wine," Washington remarked, turning away.
"Damn your proud soul," Brantley cried. "You're above drinking with soldiers."
"Come, I will drink with you," replied Washington, turning back to take a drink.
"Give it to your servants," Brantley suggested, nodding to Washington's aides.
"Now," Brantley declared, having retreived his empty pitcher, "I'll be damned if I don't spend the last drop of my heart's blood for you."
[Source: History of America - A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution (1-4)]
Washington, George (1732-99), US general and statesman, 1st (unanimously elected) president of the United States (1789-97), member of Virginia's House of Burgesses (1759-74), commander in chief of the American forces during the Revolutionary war, chairman of the Constitutional Convention (1787) [noted for his military brilliance during the Seven Years' (1756-63) and Revolutionary wars (defeating, with French aid, General Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781)]
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It was early morning at an Army camp and the first sergeant was calling out names for the daily work parties listed on a piece of paper:
"Ames"
"Here!"
"Jenson"
"Here!"
"Jones"
"Here!"
"Magersky"
"Here!"
"Seeback"
" -- "
"Seeback!"
" -- "
"SEEBACK!!!"
" -- "
At that point, someone whispered into the first sergeant's ear. He looked again at what the last name really said, quickly turned over the list and continued calling the names printed on the other side.
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From the German Army Hand-Book:
The soldier is allowed to begin swimming without a special order of his seargant if the depth of the water he is marching in is more than half a meter.
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Dear Abby,
I have a problem. I have two brothers. One brother is a boatswain in the Navy, the other was put to death in the electric chair for a gruesome multiple murder. My mother died from insanity caused by syphilis when I was three years old. My sisters are prostitutes, and my father sells narcotics to high school students. Recently I met a girl who was just released from prison. She was sentenced for smothering her illegitimate child to death. I want to marry her.
My problem is - if I marry this girl, should I tell her about my brother who is a Boatswain Mate.?
Sign Dilemma
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We once had a young troopy who was attached to support troop. Who was given the task of demonstrating the CET(Combat Engineer Tractor) firing its anchor to pull itself up a steep bank. At first he came up with the idea of having it swimming in the river Weser, but it was pointed out to him that even though the CET did swim army vehicle's were not allowed to swim. As we had a training ground not far from the camp where the whole of the squadron would be able to watch, it was decided that the anchor would be fired in the training area. As he talked through his demonstration, the crew of the CET carried out his instructions for fitting the rockets to the anchor and arming it. He got the crew to baton down the hatches for firing and with a countdown he proceed to fire the anchor. However in his need to impress the squadron O/C he had forgotten to tell the crew the most important part of firing the anchor, which is attaching it to the cable. To his surprise and the squadrons amusement the anchor cleared the training area and landed in the middle of the forest 3 miles away..
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