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One, they're infantry.
There's heavy infantry, which are foot soldiers, armed foot soldiers with swords and shields and some kind of armor.
If you go back over the history of ancient warfare, you will find time and time again that slingers were the decisive factor against infantry in one kind of battle or another.
He's heavy infantry, and his expectation when he challenges the Israelites to a duel is that he's going to be fighting another heavy infantryman.
David says, "I want to fight Goliath," and Saul tries to give him his armor, because Saul is thinking, "Oh, when you say 'fight Goliath,' you mean 'fight him in hand-to-hand combat,' infantry on infantry."
In the year 1066, 7000 Norman infantry and knights sailed in warships across the English Channel.
I joined the Israeli army just after the first intifada, the first Palestinian uprising, and I served in one of the hard-minded, toughest, aggressive infantry units, and I got the biggest gun in my platoon.
Amber, a Heidi look-alike, who had always wanted to be in the infantry, and when she found out that women couldn't be, she decided to become an intel officer.
This is what in the infantry we used to call the military crest.
The attacking infantry advances steadily, their elephants already having broken the defensive line.
The History channel always talks about the other infantry divisions when it talks about WW2 and Korea but you rarely hear it mention the 45th.
A few examples: in an early scene Soviet infantry are attacked by the Germans; instead of staying in their trenches to shoot at them, they advance into open ground to fight them,contrary to all infantry tactics; Kate, one of the central characters, is supposedly the daughter of a White Russian and obsessed with her Russianness, yet she does not speak Russian; a guilt-stricken German airman attacks an anti-aircraft gun- the gun, however, does not fire shrapnel shells but scores a direct hit on his 'plane, which doesn't look much like a German 'plane of WWII.
An single enemy tank advances near the end (at the beginning referred to as armored division), proceeded by a solitary infantry point (!) who moves extremely slowly without cover scouting the area, then waives the tank on when he deems it save to proceed - a most bizarre scene.
One had to crash land and his friend landed his spit under fire, while German infantry was moving in on them, and flew them both out of there.
Flying school is not for the smart alecks and the know it alls, an individual such as the one portrayed here wouldn't have lasted two days, it would have either been the stockade or the infantry.
The episodic version of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers plays out at a deathly slow pace, following Johnny Rico leaving his parents, the (not very attractive) girl he lusts for, and joining the mobile infantry.
Little more than training film quality with poor camera work, muddy stock footage and perhaps the low point of stereotyping 'Japs' with laughing Japanese infantry, laughing Japanese fighter pilots and one-dimensional square-jawed Americans dying left and right.
This autobiographical account of the exploits of Audie L. Murphy as the most decorated American soldier of World War II makes for a good--but not great--traditional military movie where everybody obeys orders and few complain about serving in the infantry.
As a Nam vet and former combat infantry squad leader I can tell you this movie was 80% BS.
Good actors are fed into the maw of the mincing machine of this abominable script like world war one infantry into the teeth of German machine guns.
Mitchum plays an infantry officer in Korea at the beginning of the war there.
Standing defensively works for spear armed infantry not for assault infantry like the soldiers pictured in the film.
Excellent war drama and realistic account of a courageous U.S. infantry unit trying to gain control of high ground held by snipers and flame throwers in Korea on the edge of Armistice in 1953.
As one who served as an MACV adviser (1965) and later in the infantry in Vietnam (1966), I can only echo those that say this is the best Vietnam film ever made.
I really don't know what else to say about this movie other than don't watch it, the acting is absolutely shocking, the combat scenes seem as if they were without any expertise on infantry tactics and or training and it is just generally very cheesy.
This film could be a stunning vehicle for demonstrating the idiocy of the American infantry in Europe in WWII, but it utterly fails to engage even that material.
The second, which culminated in World War I, was driven by massed firepower, and is expressed in the saying, reportedly coined at the Battle of Verdun in 1916, “artillery conquers, infantry occupies.”
In March 1915, two infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade moved north up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers towards Kut.
One of the books used by the army’s political department, which I found at the infantry school in Aleppo after it fell into rebel hands, illustrates how the regime indoctrinates its officers.
That became obvious in Kosovo, where the soldiers and officers sent by most countries were incapable of elementary infantry missions such as night patrols in small teams, which were essential to controlling depredations by the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army’s fighters.
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