"Seems Like A Dangerous Assignment" Topic
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| GreyONE | 14 Jul 2014 1:48 p.m. PST |
This doesn't look safe. Did this happen a lot… were the soldiers compensated somehow for performing this sort of battlefield heroics? Was this a penal unit, where problematic soldiers were chosen from the ranks? This sort of thing could not have been very popular among the ranks and recruiting. Were they corpses? Doesn't look like there are casualties laying about, but given the assignment, I would not want to be laying on my back like they fellow in the middle.
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 Dye4minis  | 14 Jul 2014 1:52 p.m. PST |
That looks to be some back-breaking work! ….. Nice print! Who did it and where can one see more from that artist? Great stuff! |
| GreyONE | 14 Jul 2014 1:57 p.m. PST |
Live Bridge – A Scene from the Russo-Persian War (1892)
ARTIST: Franz Roubaud It must have made an impression on the Russian artist to have made the painting. |
| Dye4minis | 14 Jul 2014 2:10 p.m. PST |
Thanks, GreyONE! Indeed! It seems the "out of the ordinary" get remembered more than the "ordinary" from history. Tom |
| jeffreyw3 | 14 Jul 2014 2:24 p.m. PST |
Ok, overhanding it makes more sense than lying in a pile…
link |
| jarhead | 14 Jul 2014 6:09 p.m. PST |
Gosh, I thought we did some dumb things in the Marine Corps. This deed got commemorated in a painting. I wonder if a senior NCO was creatively seeking a way to reduce the size of the morning report. |
| Olaf 03 | 15 Jul 2014 5:50 a.m. PST |
Doesn't seem out of the ordinary, it is the Russian army after all :) |
| Frederick | 15 Jul 2014 8:17 a.m. PST |
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Russian Army |
| Frederick | 15 Jul 2014 8:18 a.m. PST |
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Russian Army MOS – human sandbag |
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returns to Flintloque to paint an Ogre.
