Milsurp After Hours

In Duncan's daily thread about WWI, Sir J. French had this to say:
"The protraction of the war depends entirely on the supply of men and munitions."

Wow, thank you Captain Obvious.........

And a hundred years later, his great-grandson wrote this for CNN......

When all else fails.....take the pledge. From a hundred years ago today.

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Krag surplus rifles. Seems a hundred years ago today the surplus rifles were directed to the NRA to give out to rifle clubs. But a day or two before they were being sought by a society lady to the tune of $6,000,000 profit to the Government to take them out of the European war supply, so she said, and paid for by a German American group. The idea being to dump them all in the Ocean.

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Somebody had to take the blame. And this guy was a spy in all likelyhood.
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French war effort has a dock workers problem.

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Meanwhile, back in the USA on this date a hundred years ago, the Secretary of War is whistling in the dark. On the front page of one newspaper he suggests that we could do with some more troops, although we aren't angry with anybody and nobody is angry with us and ...etc.

In another paper , as just another by the way, German casualties in one part of the war for the last couple of months are close to what the US standing Army is in numbers.

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How about this for a believe it or not story? The newspaper printed this on April 12 so the last prediction was yet to prove to be untrue but probably did send a shiver down the spine of the reader if they were so inclined as to believe such a story wasn't totally suspect.

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While the US remains on the sidelines of the war it has to do the neutral two step. A Canadian in military uniform was not to come into the US because that would be like taking sides, but DuPont could make lots of ammo for the allies and Remington and New England Westinghouse could make Rifles and... well business is business I guess.

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"...no officer, non-commissioned officer, or man is.."

Well, now we know who the real men are...........

"...Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and other frontier towns."

Real frontier towns like Deadwood, SD, Tombstone, AZ, and Dodge City, KS would be laughing
their asses off at that.

Some generals took the blame game seriously.

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