2 April 2022 Garand Picture of the Day - M1C

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Us Forces In Berlin
Date taken: 1961
Photographer: Stan Wayman

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They all look groggy...
Serious is a thing. These guys are really groggy:D

You can tell the LT is a West Point (ring knocker) graduate by the large class ring on his finger. LOL !! Probably thinks he is General Patton.

This is in the period surroundiung the Berlin crisis (June 4-November 9, 1961) centered around the building of the Berlin Wall. Soviet and U.S. cavalry faced off across the first proclaimed and then fortified border around West Berlin. The U.S. eventually brought in the Davy Crockett platoon-level, recoilless rifle-delivered, tactical nuclear weapon system, the "watermelon with fins."

Bob

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Originally Posted by fjruple

the LT

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It was always humorous to us when the new young officer would come in trying to look tough. He had no idea how young he looked, even to us when we were only nineteen or twenty. But we'd been on the line for two years by then.