Reply #57: Who are the few that are willing to sacrifice themselves?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

When I was going through infantry training in the marines, they took us to an open field and showed us what machine guns could do by firing tracers across the field from 2 machine guns.

Then they took us to another field facing a bunker. Half of our platoon was sent to the right to outflank the machine guns. The other half was assigned to stand up and march toward the bunker while popping off our trusty M-1s. The idea being that we were to be sacrificed to save the hypothetical battalion approaching behind us.

Even as a 17 year old boot, I could see that this was fine idea. But, if any SOB of sergeant ever told me to do such a dumbass thing as walk towards a machine gun, he was going to have a helluva fight on his hands, and I had a gun.