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.
Wow.
ReplyDelete"If your leadership style requires using machine guns on your own troops, you’re doing it wrong."
ReplyDeleteThe Duke of Wellington called. He'd like to punch you in the throat for being a noob. Or a knob; damned British accents.....
http://blahist1.blogspot.com/2009/03/port-chicago-explosion-and-mutiny.html
ReplyDeleteNot the only one.
Gerry
Heh. Explains fragging.
ReplyDeleteNyet! Is proper leading style.
ReplyDeleteIs in manual!
Perhaps you are dissident and heat of Mockba winter is making you feeling flustered?
Reading the article, it looks like the draftee black troops machine-gunned their idiotic white officers.
ReplyDeletePerhaps racial taunts directed at armed troops was a bad idea?
Post-mutiny, they are no longer your troops, but your adversaries. Gunplay naturally ensues.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they had just seen the film series "Why We Fight":
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight
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.
ReplyDeletelachlan.