02-22-2008, 08:21 AM
OK. Can't resist joining back in, but I hope you'll like this.
The Commanding Officer of a Gurkha battalion which had just captured a hill (say, Hill 127), at some cost, from the Japanese in Burma during WWII, was incensed to hear a broadcast that an American unit had 'taken Hill 127'.
His report to Allied headquarters that, 'if the Americans had taken Hill 127, then the 4th Gurkhas would proceed to take umbrage' had groups of staff lackeys searching maps for Umbrage. :lol:
(genuinely no offence meant to my American brethern who may well have captured Hills 128, 129 and 130).
The Commanding Officer of a Gurkha battalion which had just captured a hill (say, Hill 127), at some cost, from the Japanese in Burma during WWII, was incensed to hear a broadcast that an American unit had 'taken Hill 127'.
His report to Allied headquarters that, 'if the Americans had taken Hill 127, then the 4th Gurkhas would proceed to take umbrage' had groups of staff lackeys searching maps for Umbrage. :lol:
(genuinely no offence meant to my American brethern who may well have captured Hills 128, 129 and 130).
Lochinvar/Ewan Carmichael
