By Jim Campbell
April 7th 2018
Article brought to us by frogman Jim O’Neill, Seal Team II
Jim likes to bill himself as something to the effect of being all dressed up with no party any time soon.
It seems when Jim was with the team, the Vietnam War was winding down.
I know Jim to be a no-nonsense straight shooter.
Trust that most people could not walk for even a day in his shoes.
Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks on the United States forces in the Philippines, by Muslim extremists.
General Pershing captured 50 terrorists, and had them tied to posts for execution.
He had his is men slaughter two pigs, in front of the horrified terrorists The soldiers soaked their bullets in the pig’s blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad.
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The soldiers dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist’s bodies, and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc.
They let the 50th man go.
General Pershing was a United States Marine
Case closed !
Pershing and aides crossing the Rio Grande
The first motor vehicles used in actual combat by the U.S. Army were the 1916 Dodge touring cars in which forces under the command of Brig. Gen. pursued and engaged Pancho Villa following Villa’s raid on Columbus, N.M., March 6, 1916.
A young Army lieutenant, George S. Patton, saw his first motorized combat as a member of this “punitive expedition.”
Patton was in charge of a 15-man contingent traveling in three of the Dodges for the purpose of buying corn from Mexican farmers.
Relying purely on a hunch, Patton led a raid at a place called the Rubio Ranch, believing that one of Villa’s men might be there.
As it turned out, three of the enemy were there and, during their attempted escape, Patton and his men engaged them in a lively skirmish resembling an old western movie gunfight.
All three of Villa’s men were killed.
Patton, who was later nicknamed “Blood and Guts” by the American press, tied the bodies to the cars, one on each hood, and drove them to Pershing’s headquarters. [Thereafter Pershing took to calling Patton “The Bandito”]. (Source)
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JCscuba
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Pershing had his hang ups. I spoke to someone who worked for him in NYC in the financial district, and he confirmed it. Pershing, refused my paternal grandfather, a graduate of NY University, Class of 1914, a commission in the army. My paternal grandfather spoke different languages, and was the reason for me having a first year college reading level when I was in the beginning of fifth grade elementary school. My paternal grandfather, was always asked to read directives by his sergeant who had a third grade education and could not read beyond, “See Jane run. Run, Jane, run”. The captain had a tenth grade education. My grandfather had a Bachelor degree in science. So, Pershing calls him into his office and tells my paternal grandfather, “We have fifty Eye-talian officers in this army, and don’t need fifty-one”. Commission Denied. His top rank at the end of overseas in France, was Private First Class. There is an up side to all that. He was in an outfit that had many Appalachian people, who taught him how to make moonshine.
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