>during WWII they rationed every material they possibly good from the people >made garish leather sheep-lined coats for officers that were not even deployed to the theater
What did they mean by this?
They didn't make those jackets for officers. Sobel decided officers of Easy company should buy those on their own at some point. It's either in the Ambrose's book or Winters's memoirs, I mix it up at the moment.
Just dug up the books to make sure, I made a mistake.
Only Sobel wore that jacket and he indeed got it on his own, it's an "Air Force sheepskin jacket" and it was most definitely not standard issue.
And Sink decided that all officers should buy "trench-style overcoats" and sent Winters to procure them (alongside lots and lots of whisky). Also not standard issue so I mixed the two things up
It's all fun and games until the jerries start treating you like spies and partisans in your non regulation uniforms.
No more great escape for you, ami scum
>Americans >Rationing
When they did a training film on how to behave in Britain they had specifically tell them not to eat all the food on the table if they got invited for a dinner because the Brits are too polite to tell you not to eat their weeks rations.
It literally played out like a Friends episode >The one where Ross tries to kill himself >"Goodbye cruel world" >*Gunshot* ".....Why is the afterlife so dark?"
>Would have died jumping into Normandy >Instead he dies blind and malnourish in some old folks home
I would say Sobel had a hard life. Was it his own fault? Maybe.
A lot of men men became depressed that they missed out on WW2. Like the greatest and most meaningful event in their lives just passed them by. They were basically missing out on the greatest adventure they could ever have, for good or ill, during some of history's most important moments
And people like Sobel did, but it really wasn't the same. It didn't have the same magnitude and "glory" as WW2 did. It was a lesser war compared to it. I mean, one is named after a country and the other has "World" in it
Watched The Pacific for the first time, everything with Eugene and Lickie was kino - everything with Ballsilo sucked. Annoyed that they killed off Jon Berenthal so early
>made the mistake of marathoning BoB and The Pacific before Generation Kill
Two guys get boo boos on the way to Baghdad and I got to put up with three episodes of solid whining and preaching because the guy who wrote this shit worked for Rolling Stone.
All the whining was done by the marines and was completely accurate reporting by him. You even had some of the actual guys as actors on the show. The real Rudi played himself
The japs were savage Black folk and got what they deserved by BAM (Big American munitions), the Germans not so much. I understand your daily mantra as you wake and before you sleep is "Death to America" Because Brad from Vermont is the reason youre a browncel, so you need some external persons to lash out at.
>during WWII they rationed every material they possibly good from the people
>made garish leather sheep-lined coats for officers that were not even deployed to the theater
What did they mean by this?
They were deployed to the theater.
You don't need leather to build airframes or fuel engines, plus if you get shot you are at least entitled to look cool while you die
They didn't make those jackets for officers. Sobel decided officers of Easy company should buy those on their own at some point. It's either in the Ambrose's book or Winters's memoirs, I mix it up at the moment.
Just dug up the books to make sure, I made a mistake.
Only Sobel wore that jacket and he indeed got it on his own, it's an "Air Force sheepskin jacket" and it was most definitely not standard issue.
And Sink decided that all officers should buy "trench-style overcoats" and sent Winters to procure them (alongside lots and lots of whisky). Also not standard issue so I mixed the two things up
It's all fun and games until the jerries start treating you like spies and partisans in your non regulation uniforms.
No more great escape for you, ami scum
>Americans
>Rationing
When they did a training film on how to behave in Britain they had specifically tell them not to eat all the food on the table if they got invited for a dinner because the Brits are too polite to tell you not to eat their weeks rations.
You were allowed an egg a week in america
Someone has watched Steve's videos
That sounds more like Germany near the end of WW1
>Brits
>too polite
huh, different times
>garish leather sheep-lined coats
Leave.
? A sheep lined leather jacket is a very effective, utilitarian item. They didn't have Goretex back then, tard.
>reading this dudes later life
why didn't his israeli brethren save him from such a fate?
they're israeli
bleak
It literally played out like a Friends episode
>The one where Ross tries to kill himself
>"Goodbye cruel world"
>*Gunshot* ".....Why is the afterlife so dark?"
PIVOT
PIVOT!
Kek, made me think of this
>I can't read the captcha. What in the goddamn hell is that second letter?
>no no no there's supposed to be a blue board here
>Luz (faking MOOT's voice and shouting): "IS THERE A PROBLM CAPTAIN SOBEL!?
Isn't that the guy from that friends show lol
na it's his twin brother Elias Schwimmer lol
I'm trying to figure out how they let a israelite in charge, sir
I gots muh balls caught in muh web gear again, sir
>Heh- hey guys (haha). I got s-some - heh - some more ah ha... ammo pshhhhhhaahha
>fluffs Drumpf's hair (the name was still Drumpf at the time)
>Nsfw, contrabanned.
>all weekend captchas are revoked!
>take the punishment dick, you spend weekends on base anyways
>no sir, I think I'll take the court marshall trial
based as frick dick winters
his book is based beyond belief. sad to see how the american male has changed.
>be American hero icon
>be named Major Dick
Ground control to major dick
it's just a collection of grandpa simpson tier made up bullshit
>NOOO you can't give me a comfy job training soldiers, I want to go die scalping Le Nazis
What was his problem?
>he's a son of Abraham.
He wanted to be a hero. He wanted to be a killer. Some guys are just wired wrong
>Would have died jumping into Normandy
>Instead he dies blind and malnourish in some old folks home
I would say Sobel had a hard life. Was it his own fault? Maybe.
A lot of men men became depressed that they missed out on WW2. Like the greatest and most meaningful event in their lives just passed them by. They were basically missing out on the greatest adventure they could ever have, for good or ill, during some of history's most important moments
Nothing stopping them enlisting and getting shot atby a Chinaman in Korea.
And people like Sobel did, but it really wasn't the same. It didn't have the same magnitude and "glory" as WW2 did. It was a lesser war compared to it. I mean, one is named after a country and the other has "World" in it
Oh, don't get me wrong, it was a shit war. Shoulda just let Dougie set fire to a million screaming Chinamen and let it be over with.
It's a can of peaches, sir.
>you salute the thread, not the OP.
one of my favorite lines.
then liebgot and winters share a look
stand up to bullies guys, they shouldnt ever win
What's the actual name of this kind of jacket?
...I want one...
bomber jacket
Watched The Pacific for the first time, everything with Eugene and Lickie was kino - everything with Ballsilo sucked. Annoyed that they killed off Jon Berenthal so early
The Iwo Jima episode is Basilone kino
>made the mistake of marathoning BoB and The Pacific before Generation Kill
Two guys get boo boos on the way to Baghdad and I got to put up with three episodes of solid whining and preaching because the guy who wrote this shit worked for Rolling Stone.
GK was shit and I don't know why anyone liked it
Filtered
Mainly just zogbots who think it's relatable.
All the whining was done by the marines and was completely accurate reporting by him. You even had some of the actual guys as actors on the show. The real Rudi played himself
This israelite died horribly. Google it. Literally everybody who ever met him hates him.
Threadly reminder that Sobel did nothing wrong
He couldn't even kill himself properly, anon.
BoB/The Pacific were pure zogbot propaganda
The japs were savage Black folk and got what they deserved by BAM (Big American munitions), the Germans not so much. I understand your daily mantra as you wake and before you sleep is "Death to America" Because Brad from Vermont is the reason youre a browncel, so you need some external persons to lash out at.
curious that you view dissent against zog propaganda as an attack against america