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You may know something that someone else does not and/or we can attempt to highlight some military history and encourage learning at the same time.
RULE: Post a good military history question and 'Vote UP' the correct answer...if no one responds with a correct answer within 24-hours, post the answer.
RULE: Post a good military history question and 'Vote UP' the correct answer...if no one responds with a correct answer within 24-hours, post the answer.
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Military History Trivia
Posted 12 y ago
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During which conflict did the Navy operate two vessels (using the term loosely, they had no engine and had to be pulled by tugs) solely for the production of ice cream for troops?
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LT Jessica Kellogg
The ice cream barges were operated toward the end of World War 2. One was moved around the Pacific, the other was kept near Okinawa. They could each produce 1,500 gallons of ice cream per hour.
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Does anybody know what squadron thispicture is of?
For extra points who was the CO?
Finally, what was the original nickname?
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How many double Medal of Honor recipients are there? How many are for separate actions?
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Since 1900, what was the year the Army had the most Soldiers on active duty? Approximately, how many did we have?
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SGM Matthew Quick
Crazy to think the Army had over 8 MILLION active Army Soldiers at one point...now fighting to stay above 450,000
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Our economy was hugely strained - look at the charts that show deficits as percentage of GNP/GDP.
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Can anyone speculate or research to why the Roman Legions were a clean shaved army? No answer is wrong. It's just interesting.
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MSG Timothy Smith
So their pro-masks would get a good fit? Seriously, probably had something to do with differentiating Roman troops from their conquered enemies?
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On February 25th 1943, at Camp McCall, NC this prestigious unit began as a Glider Infantry Regiment. What unit is this?
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1SG(P) (Join to see)
The 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment, "The Rakkasans". It's unique as it's one of the few regiments to have been a Glider, Parachute, and Air Assault regiment. Unlike Airborne regiments in the ETO, The 187th along with the rest of the 11th Airborne eventually was qualified as both Glider and Parachute Infantry. The 11th was also the only Airborne Division to be comprised of conscripts who then volunteered for jump status. As an RCT the 187th conducted both mass tactical combat jumps of the Korean War.
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Who was the youngest US Army division CG of WWII? How old was he? Which division was it? With whom was he rumored to have an affair?
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MSG Timothy Smith
James M. Gavin, he was in his mid-30's at the time. I'm going to say that it was the 82nd Airborne Division. And the mysterious female was none other than Marlene Dietrich.
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Ambassador to France and dual DSC recipient, LTG "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin, then a BG, took command of the 82nd at 37 y/o, just prior to OPERATION MARKET GARDEN. Despite his rank, he carried an M-1 Garand on operations instead of the M-1 carbine preferred by most senior officers. It appears he also had the swagger to impress a woman like Dietrich.
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Common knowledge, and education, teaches us that gold is higher in value than silver. Furthermore, our military officer ranks use both silver and gold in the design and appearance of each rank. Why then does officer rank, where their are two of the same physical design, have silver representing the superior rank whilst the gold represents the junior of the two?
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LTC Yinon Weiss
I can only guess... perhaps because the original gold insignia was only gold colored, and it rubbed off to show a silver color later? Hence the more experienced officers had the gold rubbed off?
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1SG Frank Rocha
good guess sir, but not the answer I was looking for. That would, however, be an intriguing story if it had some influence on it.
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1SG Frank Rocha
this is the correct answer. Any paraphrased version would suffice as well.
"Gold is worth more than silver, but silver outranks gold. This is because
the Army decreed in 1832 that infantry colonels would wear gold eagles
on an epaulette of silver and all other colonels would wear silver
eagles on gold. When majors and lieutenant colonels received the leaves,
this tradition could not continue. So silver leaves represented
lieutenant colonels and gold, majors. The case of lieutenants is
different: First lieutenants had been wearing silver bars for 80 years
before second lieutenants had any bars at all"
"Gold is worth more than silver, but silver outranks gold. This is because
the Army decreed in 1832 that infantry colonels would wear gold eagles
on an epaulette of silver and all other colonels would wear silver
eagles on gold. When majors and lieutenant colonels received the leaves,
this tradition could not continue. So silver leaves represented
lieutenant colonels and gold, majors. The case of lieutenants is
different: First lieutenants had been wearing silver bars for 80 years
before second lieutenants had any bars at all"
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What is the only American city to have a white flag flown before an ememy force? What War? Who was the Commander of the US Forces?
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SSG Robert Blum
General Hull at the time, and because he surrended to a inferior force, his officers (Who belived that they could have beaten the brittish, canadian, and native forces) began a letter writing campaign, and he was recalled to Washington in dishonor. Because he was a war hero from the revolution he did not sereve any jail time.
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