Wednesday, June 26, 2013

QotD: Doing It Wrong Edition...

Linking to a story about a mutiny by U.S. troops in Oz during WWII, WeaponsMan writes:
If your leadership style requires using machine guns on your own troops, you’re doing it wrong.
I was unaware of that particular historical tidbit.
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9 comments:

Bubblehead Les. said...

Wow.

11:58 AM, June 26, 2013
Anonymous said...

"If your leadership style requires using machine guns on your own troops, you’re doing it wrong."

The Duke of Wellington called. He'd like to punch you in the throat for being a noob. Or a knob; damned British accents.....

12:34 PM, June 26, 2013
Anonymous said...

http://blahist1.blogspot.com/2009/03/port-chicago-explosion-and-mutiny.html

Not the only one.

Gerry

2:04 PM, June 26, 2013
Paul said...

Heh. Explains fragging.

3:35 PM, June 26, 2013
Angus McThag said...

Nyet! Is proper leading style.

Is in manual!

Perhaps you are dissident and heat of Mockba winter is making you feeling flustered?

5:09 PM, June 26, 2013
Kristophr said...

Reading the article, it looks like the draftee black troops machine-gunned their idiotic white officers.

Perhaps racial taunts directed at armed troops was a bad idea?

8:40 PM, June 26, 2013
Anonymous said...

Post-mutiny, they are no longer your troops, but your adversaries. Gunplay naturally ensues.

9:32 PM, June 26, 2013
Ed said...

Perhaps they had just seen the film series "Why We Fight":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight

2:25 AM, June 27, 2013
Anonymous said...

There was also the "Battle of Brisbane" around the same time, with the Australian and some British troops, the vast majority of whom were veterans of long stints in North Africa, becoming disillusioned (i.e., "had a gutfull of this shit, mate") with the American presence. The Yanks were fresh, well dressed, and monopolising all the sheilas! The cry was "Overfed, Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over here!" The riot went on for days. After which, everyone went off together and charged up pacific island beaches into japanese machine gun fire.
lachlan.

9:24 PM, June 27, 2013

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