The purpose is for the cadets to have a better understanding of the history of the infantryman and where some of the practices that we still use today come from.
Quotes about infantryman (7 Quotes)
To the infantryman, his country's military might is only those buddies he can see, and the equipment they have at hand likewise, to the wage-earner, 'free enterprise' is primarily the way his boss treats him and those around him.
WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- In his landmark book on the infantryman, Mud Soldiers, ... Armies don't fight wars. Countries fight wars. I hope to hell we learned that in Vietnam. ... A country fights a war. If it doesn't, then we shouldn't send an army.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Tolkien went through it himself (as an infantryman) in World War I. But it just got worse in his lifetime, ... I think he was very preoccupied with the nature of evil, the nature of technology, the way in which things could be abused, the way good intentions are subverted. That's what it's all about.
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?
I read The Civil War Infantryman , which talked about making 20-mile marches in the dead heat of summer in wool uniforms, then sitting down to eat salt pork. I'm sleeping in air-conditioned hotels, with good food every day and, like, a made-to-order omelet station. Who am I kidding about how difficult this is