A Very Cool Thing

[Kilnockie]

Reading through here, it just dawned on me how very cool it is to have Amis and Brits and Deutche and Dutch and everyone else talking. I spent twenty years in the US Army as a grunt, and I may be getting old, but I think there is a real brotherhood between grunts, whatever country they may be from. I lived in Germany for eight years during the cold war, worked in a NATO unit and had many friends and acquaintenances who were either in the German military or had been (including some who had fought on either the western or eastern front in WW2).

My impression was, and still is, politicians be ****ed, there is more in common between the grunts of the various nations than there are differences. We all believe(or believed) that we are doing the right thing for the right reasons. We all believed we were defending our homeland.

Anyway, I'll get down off my soapbox, but I salute any man who has stood in close combat for the principles in which he believed. He is, to quote a cliche, my brother in arms.

[Kilnockie]

Reading through here, it just dawned on me how very cool it is to have Amis and Brits and Deutche and Dutch and everyone else talking. I spent twenty years in the US Army as a grunt, and I may be getting old, but I think there is a real brotherhood between grunts, whatever country they may be from. I lived in Germany for eight years during the cold war, worked in a NATO unit and had many friends and acquaintenances who were either in the German military or had been (including some who had fought on either the western or eastern front in WW2).

My impression was, and still is, politicians be ****ed, there is more in common between the grunts of the various nations than there are differences. We all believe(or believed) that we are doing the right thing for the right reasons. We all believed we were defending our homeland.

Anyway, I'll get down off my soapbox, but I salute any man who has stood in close combat for the principles in which he believed. He is, to quote a cliche, my brother in arms.

[Airforce1234]

yes you are right!
can u speak german^^?

[Kilnockie]

Yes, it's been a few years since I've really needed it, but I still speak, read and understand German.

[ivan_aka_kata]

what's a grunt? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/blink.gif I'm not English, sooo (I speak German tho http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif - but I am not German, I'm Swiss...)
And, what about girls playing here?

[Kilnockie]

"A grunt" is US Army slang for MOS 11B - Infantryman. Otherwise known as 'the true faith.'

[JStanford]

My dad was a Copter-Jockey in Vietnam, a crew chief aboard a CH-47, and both my grandfathers served in WWII, one an American paratrooper, the other, a German paratrooper (what a coincidence, huh?). I firmly believe that all soldiers, no matter what nationality, have more in common than they think. Thanks for bringing that up.

[Airforce1234]

thats nice!
So many ppls understand German!
Im German and it is a great language!
http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[ivan_aka_kata]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Kilnockie:
"A grunt" is US Army slang for MOS 11B - Infantryman. Otherwise known as 'the true faith.' </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks!!

[Kongo Otto]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ivan_aka_kata:
what's a grunt? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/blink.gif I'm not English, sooo (I speak German tho http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif - but I am not German, I'm Swiss...)
And, what about girls playing here? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Auf Deutsch: Grunt=Stoppelhopser http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

[Airforce1234]

Stoppelhosper....hab ich noch nie gehoert http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[ivan_aka_kata]

@Kongo_Otto: Stoppelhopser? Wo hast du denn die ÃÅ“bersetzung her?! Hab's zwar noch nie gehört, kann mir aber ungefähr vorstellen, was es bedeutet http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Danke!!

[Kongo Otto]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ivan_aka_kata:
@Kongo_Otto: Stoppelhopser? Wo hast du denn die ÃÅ“bersetzung her?! Hab's zwar noch nie gehört, kann mir aber ungefähr vorstellen, was es bedeutet http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Danke!! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

So werden die PzGrenadiere in der Bundeswehr von
den Artilleristen genannt.

[ivan_aka_kata]

Aha, dann sind das aber nur PzGrenadiere und nicht Rekruten in general?
Bei uns sagt man ihnen Grenädlä (jedenfalls in Berndeutsch http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif )

"Es ist kein Mensch, es ist kein Tier, es ist ein Panzergrenadier." That's what we used to say... http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Airforce1234]

ihr habts ja mit eurem Bern?

[ivan_aka_kata]

wat denn?! I just said how we call 'em in Bernese... (ausserdem, ich hab noch niemanden ausser mir gesehen, der aus Bern kommt... Ihr schon?)
Great language - and no real grammar!!!! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/11.gif

[SantaCruz_rule6]

Sieg heil mij fuhrer http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gifhahahaha

[ivan_aka_kata]

SantaCruz, pack it in!!

[Kongo Otto]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ivan_aka_kata:
SantaCruz, pack it in!! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Donâ´t discuss with morons,they bring you down to their level and beat you with their experience.

[greenlionhaert]

Wat is er met je aan de hand SantaCruz_rules6?

[SantaCruz_rule6]

Kongo otto can you not tell it was a joke, you are the moron if you truelly believe i meant that.

how about a little humour on these forums???

[ozjish]

It's always someone elses fault, eh, Santa?

[SantaCruz_rule6]

Hey ozjish i meant it as a joke , you seem like a smart guy do you really think meanted it what do you think i'm a ''arubian nazi'' or something, and i didn't say it was his fault.

[DarkAutumn]

Back to the subject at hand:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Kilnockie:
Reading through here, it just dawned on me how very cool it is to have Amis and Brits and Deutche and Dutch and everyone else talking. I spent twenty years in the US Army as a grunt, and I may be getting old, but I think there is a real brotherhood between grunts, whatever country they may be from. I lived in Germany for eight years during the cold war, worked in a NATO unit and had many friends and acquaintenances who were either in the German military or had been (including some who had fought on either the western or eastern front in WW2).

My impression was, and still is, politicians be ****ed, there is more in common between the grunts of the various nations than there are differences. We all believe(or believed) that we are doing the right thing for the right reasons. We all believed we were defending our homeland.

Anyway, I'll get down off my soapbox, but I salute any man who has stood in close combat for the principles in which he believed. He is, to quote a cliche, my brother in arms. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


I was with Canadian Forces as a Regular in the 80's, and was drawn back as a Reservist in the 90's. (Our Militia = U.S. National Guard.)

I'll take that salute you offered.
Because I was there: http://www.cda-cdai.ca/library/medakpocket2.htm

And I salute you in return.
Cuz any sumb*tch hardcore enough to put their 20 in is a Lifer I respect.

[M1928_TommyGun]

The Dutch are real videogameplayers.
When you play COD online, half of the guys have NL in their names.
I live in Holland.