French block airlift of British troops to Basra

Drewe Manton wrote in message .4...
(Kevin Brooks) wrote in
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US troops always grumble; part of what makes US troops unique, I
guess.


Hardly! It's a characteristic of soldiers the world over, and led one
British CO to say "if the men are moaning, things are okay, when they STOP
moaning I'll start worrying because something is seriously wrong"

That would appear to be a restatement of an old maxim. True enough
that troops the world over do grumble; my mistake for using the word
"unique", as opposed to maybe "typical of". ISTR it was one of your
officers who was somewhat amazed that US troops tended to have to be
told the "why" of their orders, as opposed to the quaint "yes, sir,
three bags full, sir" type of response to which he was accustomed...

Brooks