Why German Commanders Were Baffled That U.S. Officers Ate The Same Food As Enlisted Men

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  @sandyray2759 · 3 months ago

  I’m a retired US Army Colonel. Officers EAT LAST, I missed many meal because the food ran out!!😢

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• ST

  @stevenwaskul9697 · 3 months ago

  As an NCO I took care of my troops first and even split my food with them. I ate last also.

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• SH

  @sharonwhiteley6510 · 3 months ago

  Look at LT Bouck during the Battle of Lanzerath.   He turned 21 the day it started.   Yet his men trusted him implicitly

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• CH

  @charlesrichardson8635 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I think you are over stating Kasserine Pass here. Major General Lloyd Fredendall failed in his disposition of forces. Most of the units at Kasserine Pass were there after Patton &quot;reworked&quot; them in three to four weeks. IF the men, training, and doctrine had been wholly wrong. &nbsp;El Guettar would have been a loss if the deficit was as great as you seem to make it. Maj Gen Fredendall set up his artillery against doctrine with improperly placed FDC&apos;s and later as the battle happened and Fredendall lost control, the artillery command set itself up by doctrine and stopped five German armor attacks later OR casualties would have doubled! AND NO the British did NOT have FDC with Time-on-Target fire as the US had even at Kasserine. This does prove that competent commanders are important especially in initial disposition as you see at &nbsp;El Guettar. No, US forces were new but their recovery time was still impressive. Their basic doctrine and training were good, and three weeks later the Germans are taught that competent leadership plus competent doctrine put trained men are a force to be reconned with. I like Patton but he was NOT a wizard .<br><br>At around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7blhDIPxMs&amp;t=1440">24:00</a> you show a US Civil War officer and it makes sense because this was the foundation era of our army&apos;s texture and command structure. The next two minutes also touch the heart of the matter. Great thought there.<br><br>Also you are keeping repetition and redundancy under control, thanks.

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• WE

  @wednesdayschild3627 · 3 months ago (edited)

  The 🇺🇸 constitution is for citizens not subjects. A citizen gets his arms and runs toward danger. A citizen defends his home.

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• GL

  @GlennAndersen-k6v · 2 months ago

  In the Air Force officers found a way around what is stated here........when practical, there were separate mess halls in officer country. Guess who had the better chow. If an enlisted could find a reason to eat in officer country, he got better chow.

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  @artiz32000 · 3 months ago

  it was then.

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  @Snarkwing · 3 months ago

  Muth has been criticized as overly praising German officer education before WWII and overly criticizing U.S. military education. It fit the Cold War era goal of building up West Germany as close allies.

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  @reecom9884 · 3 months ago

  Major Richard Winters in the famed TV series, &quot;Band of Brothers&quot;, served as Mess officer (in the 101st Airborne) when he was briefly assigned as the battalion mess officer responsible for both the enlisted and officer food allocation by his commanding officer, Captain Herbert Sobel, during an investigation. Officers must pay for their food and often pay more in their Mess Bill to get better food than the enlisted men. The only time officers eat with enlisted is in combat eating C-rations and K-rations. If there is hot food brought in by the quartermaster and the Mess officer, the officers get better food that they paid for and not the hot free food paid by the government for the enlisted. This is pure AI nonsense.

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• SC

  @scottjoseph9578 · 3 months ago

  Fredendall was the reason the Americans got beaten at Kasserine. Patton was the reason they won at El Guettar. Lloyd had NO CLUE how to lead an American Army Corps, and was a gutless coward, to boot.

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  @robertzandanel5518 · 2 months ago

  Whats w I th the static everytime the subject cha ges

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  @scottjoseph9578 · 3 months ago

  Not Bradley. PATTON.