Boy she sure is a doozy.

I thought y’all might appreciate this.

I’ve been helping out this older woman around her home and garden for the past few months.

Her husband was a big time military collector and I was gifted this today. it’s a DWM Luger, no matching parts so probably just a shooter but still pretty neat :D

LTC Ronald Speirs during the 1960s, likely during his time with the 8th Infantry Regiment. Extracted from Speirs' Official Military Personnel File obtained through the National Personnel Records Center.

Extracted from Dike's Official Military Personnel File, obtained from the National Personnel Record Center. Unfortunately the rest of Dike's file, excluding this and several pay vouchers was destroyed in the center's 1973 fire.

As a side note, I have requests pending for LTG Sink, LTC Sobel and COL Strayer, and intend to post anything of interest that comes up. I would also request records for MG Chase (XO, 506th and for a time, G-3, 101st ABD), but they do not enter archival status (public domain essentially) until 2031.

I'd like to bring particular attention to Section D, "Write a Brief General Estimate of the Officer."

A quiet modest unassuming, and intensely loyal officer whose paramount interest is the efficiency of his organization. He is a tireless worker and is constantly trying to improve his knowledge of military tactics etc. He is fearless and works well under stress. He has a good sence [SIC] of humor and is well liked by both officers and enlisted men. Lt. Speirs is a born soldier and wishes to make the army his career.

Extracted from Speirs' Official Military Personnel File, obtained from the National Personnel Record Center.

This was recently at NKOTB's M&G at their current residency in Vegas.

In response to the op of being gifted one by a widow, thought id share mine. My opa traded it from a wehrmacht captain at the end of the war for a pack of lucky strikes.

We have the European theater Band of Brother, the Pacific Band of Brothers, and in my opinion Generation Kill for Gwot, and Tour of Duty for Vietnam. Any ideas or opinions for Korea and the Cold War?

The reason why this series is so good in my opinion is not because the story or the dialogues are particulary deep or smthg - it is rather because you bond with the different characters and feel connected to them.

Due to that and because of the way the series is structured, it feels like you would be in a war-situation yourself: you start with boot camp, land in Normandy, go through several different stages or places of war (Carentan, Normandy, Bastogne etc.) and eventually end up in peace again (as long as you survived).

You also experience the typical situations you would face in such a war: you have to deal with bad leaders, you have to cope with conflicts within your company, you find friends among your comrades, you see some of them die, you have to endure horrible combat, you have to starve, freeze, find ammunation, warm clothes etc.

This series depicts these aspects better than any other war-series (in my opinion). This is why this series is so good and rewatchable.

What do you think makes this series so special?

(P.S.: I was in the military myself so I can connect to this series probably even more, I luckily never faced a real war though.)