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Originally Posted by Stealhead
I like these kinds of articles because they show civilians just how few troops are actually combatants.
It is funny what you see and don't see in the military in my old job I saw only people that either flew or worked on aircraft sometimes we used to joke "What the hell do all the others do all day" when you never see them it seems like nothing.Of course it really is something even the "desk jockies" if they did not do all that paper work/PC work someone else would have to it in addition to their regular duties.
I think that military cooks(not the contracted ones) are unsung heroes honestly it cant be easy to prepare even a half way decent meal for several thousand people four times a day it was not always the best but it beat the Golden Corral any day of the week.
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I take your point and I presume it to be the same in the US army but in the Brit army everyone is a soldier first and their trained position comes as a secondary role.
Don't see much of that now of course because of the size of the conflicts we are usually involved in but friends who currently serve say that doctrine stands to this day.