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Stoon:

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That is NOT British drill, or anywhere else in the Commonwealth (or Empire as it was called back then).  And that's not the way drill commands are given in the Commonwealth. 

Drill commands are given clearly, enunciated so they can be understood.  As far as I know the US military is the only military where drill commands are given in gibberish. 

Kugai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2avjVPGfYY

Grognard:
today in military history, 22nd of June:

1772     A judicial ruling effectively abolishes slavery in England.
 
1807     British HMS 'Leopard' makes unprovoked attack on American USS 'Chesapeake'.

1815     Napoleon I abdicates for the second time, after Waterloo.

1876  General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages

1911     Coronation of George V as King of Great Britain

1938  American Joe Louis floors German Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium 

1941     Operation Barbarossa Begins: Hitler invades the Soviet Union

1945     Okinawa secured: 110,000 Japanese troops, 100,000 civilians, 17,520 US troops died

DIED:
2001     Bertie Felstead, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, last known survivor of the Christmas Truce of 1915, aged 106.   

LeeC:
Extra Credits just finished a small series on the Zulu.  Worth a watch  8-)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLGKFWlRzY

The Seldom Killer:

--- Quote from: Grognard on 22 Jun 2015, 18:32 ---
1807     British HMS 'Leopard' makes unprovoked attack on American USS 'Chesapeake'.


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Revise history much there Groggy?

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