Re: A grenade question, or two... or more

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:17:42 -0400, "Andrew Clark"
<aclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Brad Meyer" <bradm110@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

Supposedly the same applied to the mechanization of the army -- the US
had an advantage because most young men not only owned a car, they had
tinkered with it enough to be a decent shade tree mechanic.

The advantage part appears myth, because by mid-1942 the British (the only
other mechanised army in WW2) had given every soldier basic vehicle
maintenance training and trained tens of thousands of driver-mechanics.

I can just imagine!! 90 days is going to give one the same knowledge
base and experience as someone who has had three years of constant
practice doing it in a wide variety of climes and often on the extreme
cheap. I wonder how much of the course load dealt with the uses and
benefits of baling wire. Was the staff connected with the same people
who built the batch of British trucks with the bad engines in '44?

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