14 Jan 2023 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

A Marine uses the SCR-536 during one of the Central Pacific campaigns

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[Ovidio]

This guy really looks young...

[browningautorifle]

This guy really looks young...

Sure Alpini...have a look at your pics when you first started... Bet you think the same about those guys? I looked about twelve.

[Ovidio]

Well, when I see myself in the mirror now, I feel that those fighters could all very well be my kids…

[browningautorifle]

I feel that those fighters could all very well be my kids…

I had several cases of taking a man through basic and then having his child come through. One case of a daughter first and then a father after and one son followed by his mother (A trained nurse). I never had a grandson though. Just two generations, then I knew it was time to go. Yes, they were even younger than my sons.

[ssgross]

looks young...

...and terrified.

[Ovidio]

...and terrified.

Yes… terrified. You’re right…

[Daan Kemp]

Combat soldiers usually are young, throughout the ages. Age from 16 to about 20. Old enough to fight, young enough to learn quickly, fast, strong, no bad habits yet, etc. Older ones keep the country going, supply the front line, etc. Fact of war.

[Ovidio]

Gramps, born 1900, reached the front line in 1917…

[Bob Seijas]

You have to be 18, young and indestructible... who else would charge the MG up the hill? We old guys would say, "Are you nuts? Call the artillery!"