Who said "I hear you have captured the whole German army “No Sir, only 132”??

The Army in WW1 had Sgt York & the Marines had Sgt Daly...both were awarded the MOH and are legends in military history... We only have 7 living MOH members from WW11...

ouch lol

All good NCOs have a sense of humor. You will go far if the Army of today has its whits abut it. Hope the powers that be keep him in a 6x8 at Leavenworth. I do not like the bleeding heart defense I have read.

Right .......Chief

SGT Christopher Hamman - Yea but I do remember the WW1 Veterans who had their own building in Boston MA & they wore their uniforms for the 11 November Armistice Day Parade later changed to Veterans Day....The Officers were brown polished boots and the Stetson Campaign Hats. After their parade they had a big celebration in their WWI Veterans Building that I understand was pretty wild..

I was absolutely not making a crack about your age, Sgt Tom Cunnally. And I can't for the life of me figure out how to make your name a link to your profile, to give you points for the 'mention'

SGT Christopher Hamman - You can delete the name with your comments & I could care less about points

Pvt. Alvin York...

Very good I thought it was Audie Murphy but it was Sergeant Alvin York in WW1...You just won a ride in the Trumpmobile when Mr Trump goes to East Los Angeles CA to try to win the Hispanic voters

Sgt Tom Cunnally - Can I change my answer?

SCPO David Lockwood - No too late for that sorry but you know the rules are the rules here..

Col John DiPiero - Yes & we had Barry Goldwater as one of our visitors who got to sit in the simulator ... The Sgt York was a Bofors Gun mounted on a tank chassis..but the software for the FOF had some bugs during the Army testing so Cap Weinberger pulled the plug on this project... So the Hardware guys blamed the Software guys who blamed the program office for not giving them enough time to fully test the software....And I moved on to another program but a lot of folks in Newport Beach got fired by the Company

Sounds like some other programs, including on the AF side. Thanks for the history lesson!

Col John DiPiero - Ok Sir....

The "M247 Sergeant York Division Air Defense self-propelled vehicle" was based on the old M48 Patton tank with twin radar-directed 40 mm rapid-fire guns and was a failure from the get-go, costing YOU and ME $1.8 BILLION dollars! QUOTE "In February 1982 the prototype was demonstrated for a group of US and British officers at Fort Bliss, along with members of Congress and other VIPs. When the computer was activated, it immediately started aiming the guns at the review stands, causing several minor injuries as members of the group jumped for cover. Technicians worked on the problem, and the system was restarted. This time it started shooting towards the target, but fired into the ground 300 m in front of the tank. In spite of several attempts to get it working properly, the vehicle never successfully engaged the sample targets. A Ford manager claimed that the problems were due to the vehicle being washed for the demonstration and fouling the electronics. In a report on the test, Easterbrook jokingly wondered if it ever rained in central Europe." AND IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH: QUOTE: "...tests were carried out late in 1984. The results were abysmal. Unable to hit drones moving even in a straight line, the tests were later relaxed to hovering ones. The radar proved unable to lock even to this target, as the return was too small. The testers then started adding radar reflectors to the drone to address this "problem", eventually having to add four. Easterbrook, still covering the ongoing debacle, described this as being similar to demonstrating the abilities of a bloodhound by having it find a man standing alone in the middle of an empty parking lot, covered with steaks. The system now tracked the drone, and after firing a lengthy burst of shells the drone was knocked off target. As it flew out of control, the range safety officer had it destroyed by remote control. This was interpreted by the press as an attempt to "fake" the results, describing it as "sophomoric deceits". From that point on, every test success was written off as faked." One of the most embarrassing episodes ever in the history of U.S. military weapons development!

Thanx Sir...

Prize-winning Tennessee marksman Alvin York

MCPO Roger Collins - With a Springfield 03 Rifle

SGT Christopher Hamman - There were no Army Airborne troops in 1917..??

The All Americans at that time, if I am not mistaken were a reserve division, I could be wrong there. Also there was no airborne concept yet.

Kudos to Sgt Cunnally and Chief Verify to See! The Wright brothers made their first brief flights in 1903, but military aviation was all balloons until June 28, 1909, when the Wright brothers demonstrated their 1909 Model A Military Flyer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps which offered a contract of $25,000 ($656,204 in 2008 dollars[3]) for an aircraft capable of flying at 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) with two people on board for a distance of 125 miles (201 km). After rigorous trials the Signal Corps accepted the airplane as "Signal Corps (S.C.) No. 1", August 2, 1909,[2] paying the brothers $30,000[4] ($787,444 in 2012 US dollars[3]).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Model_A

This doctrine [of the Paratrooper] was first practically applied to warfare by the Italians and the Soviets. During World War II, however, the two countries' ground forces were often overstretched, leaving their elite paratroopers to be employed as regular infantry. Paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) were first used extensively by the Germans during World War II and later in the war also by the western Allies. Owing to the limited capacity of cargo aircraft of the period (for example the Ju-52) they rarely, if ever, jumped in groups much larger than 20 from one aircraft. In English language parlance, this load of paratroopers is called a "stick", while any load of soldiers gathered for air movement is known as a "chalk". The terms come from the common use of white chalk on the sides of aircraft and vehicles to mark and update numbers of personnel and equipment being emplaned.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratrooper