Post by floydragsdale on Aug 31, 2010 11:58:19 GMT -5
Probably it is a good thing that the infantry soldiers didn't know the odds that were against them when they were on the front lines.
The odds that they would be wounded, killed, taken prisoner or sent to a hospital with a disease were 90 to 95 percent certain.
It would take more fingers than on one hand to count the number of close calls that I exerienced; not to mention the ones many of us didn't even know about.
An officer once told me "We (the Army) estimate that we have one Division on the front lines, one going to the hospital, one in the hospital, one comng back from the hospital and one Division in the grave."
The infantry soldiers life, up front, was in jeopardy twenty four hours a day.
It is a good thing he didn't have a crystal ball.
Floyd
424th Regiment
The odds that they would be wounded, killed, taken prisoner or sent to a hospital with a disease were 90 to 95 percent certain.
It would take more fingers than on one hand to count the number of close calls that I exerienced; not to mention the ones many of us didn't even know about.
An officer once told me "We (the Army) estimate that we have one Division on the front lines, one going to the hospital, one in the hospital, one comng back from the hospital and one Division in the grave."
The infantry soldiers life, up front, was in jeopardy twenty four hours a day.
It is a good thing he didn't have a crystal ball.
Floyd
424th Regiment