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fruityyamenrunner:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

talkinggorillabutler:

kontextmaschine:

You know if you think of military helicopters as air cavalry (and “Geronimo!” paratroopers as mounted infantry) the American practice of naming them after Amerindian tribes does have a neat continuity to it.

I understood that was explicitly the doctrine

Well but armor got called cavalry, and then there was the Airborne/Air Assault distinction (my father was activated as 82nd Airborne, so that’s my bias) which I now realize was an artifact of post-Nam SpecOpization x post-Cold War drawdown pressure to justify yourself by reference to like, Lebanon

Armor’s like, elephants

now do why even cavalry officers call it “calvary”

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I dunno, I thought only the Air Force officers were intense but cloistered Christians

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