geofflambert
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Joined: 12/23/2010 From: St. Louis Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert I had one of those pillbox hats and a submachinegun (toy) that I can't remember what the real one was, but in one of those Eastwood movies a Marine wasted a bunch of IJA soldiers with one. My one had this ratchet thing you could pull back and when you pulled the trigger it released (tooth by tooth). Because of my equipment I was always the officer. Officers didn't carry SMG's (sub machine guns) NCO's did. Officers carried pistols , or later M-1 carbines (generally, there were exceptions like Dick Winter , who had M-1 rifles). Snipers were taught , 2 ways to tell an officer. 1) a pistol. 2) a map case. Let me clarify. I had a submachine gun. Nobody else did. Let's play this out. Steve has a squirt gun. Julie has a toy grenade. Herman has a Luger (let me tell you about Herman later). In case your attention span is short, let me remind you I had the submachine gun. I'm the Lieutenant. I did have a couple of kids who were neighbors, I think they were twins but one was a boy the other a girl. I can't remember their names but their last was Hess, or Hesse, and they actually had German accents and were both blonde. They usually had to play the bad guys. They weren't bad guys, they just got stuck with the role. But they were different than the rest of us, I'm not sure I can explain how.
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