When my source told this story, it was only a framework of incidents, but Kipling said it: soldiers are much the same the world over.
They had supply problems trying to fight the Nubians in ancient Egypt. If we don’t have records of it, I know they did anyway; they always do.
It’s just fun to draw Stinz getting so MAD.
Somebody I knew called it “stinzing out.”
The origin was a story I heard from the daughter of a former SS officer, who was still angry about it – but in his case the tall old man picked up the delivery boy and threw him over the fence. And followed with his bicycle.
This is one of my favorite Stinz stories. It was drawn on small pages with ink and a crow-quill, which is one of the best points for expressing anger.
Talking to a soldier a couple years ago, who was obviously schooled about how to talk to the public; tongue-in-cheek called him on it.
The relief he displayed as he could drop the mask and just – talk for real – about what happened, with the combat vet’s “Boy were we dumb” humor, was startling.
If they’re being stiff and heroic, Sarge told ‘em, “You so much as LOOK wrong while you’re reporting on this incident, you’ll hear from ME!”
You have to go to their blogs for the real skinny; all news interviews are suspect.
New Story Tomorrow! About what happens when the supply people get in your way. One of MY favs.
Stinz never knew what the young man was saying, so the reader knows more than he did – and he was there.
It’s what happens to us historians, jake-leg like me or otherwise; we find out the stuff the people who were there never knew. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes, it’s just as well to hide it.
I learned THAT rule.
One of the readers was talking about these guys should have had backup and a machine gun.
Maybe we can send an experienced squad out on reconnaissance, alone, with nothing but rifles, but not the Newbies – and their newbie sergeant.
Stinz is from an older time, simply because he’s from a rural area.
I’m living in a place where – when it’s not being 1950 – is 1910. And sometimes, 10,000 years BCE.
Gift can’t help himself; some people will tease. They think it’s affectionate.
The “different” person gets very pissed-off about this kind of thing.
Don’t ask. Go look it up.
The shock that somebody we think is tough is crying just happened in a Desert Peach episode, too. These episodes were written alternately, so they had something of the same concerns.
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