Posted on Feb 15, 2017
Audie Murphy - The Real John Rambo • Hall of The Black Dragon
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You know I had a few new recruits over the years while recruiting and in Cadre for the GA-NG, who were short and very this and always complained. Though he was not anywhere in my history books in school my grandparents collection had plenty on him. Coming from a family of giants my sister and I were considered the shortest and always in front when taking family photos.
She would pull that particular history book out and make us read it and take in how small Lt. Murphy was. She then named off several others in history who were also small. And told us that short people had a better advantage then tall people. Some reasons were you could hide better in smaller areas, people will always mistake you for a kid and take mercy on you, and while everyone else has there heads in the clouds looking up shorter people had a more clear view of what was really happening on the ground.
She told me her and my great grandfather got to meet him once in Texas when my great grandfather was in the military. Knowing my grandma, I can't say how much of that is true, but the stories she told about his tactics would be a great listen if she really did get to meet him.
She would pull that particular history book out and make us read it and take in how small Lt. Murphy was. She then named off several others in history who were also small. And told us that short people had a better advantage then tall people. Some reasons were you could hide better in smaller areas, people will always mistake you for a kid and take mercy on you, and while everyone else has there heads in the clouds looking up shorter people had a more clear view of what was really happening on the ground.
She told me her and my great grandfather got to meet him once in Texas when my great grandfather was in the military. Knowing my grandma, I can't say how much of that is true, but the stories she told about his tactics would be a great listen if she really did get to meet him.
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Good history of his military career.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Audie_Murphy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Audie_Murphy
Military career of Audie Murphy - Wikipedia
The military career of Audie Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) encompassed two separate careers. His U. S. Army service covered nine World War II campaigns fought by the 3rd Infantry Division: Tunisia, Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland and Central Europe. He lied about his age to enlist in the United States Army in 1942. Before his 20th birthday he had earned every Army combat award for...
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