My first post in this blog. This is all for my own use really, somewhere I can store random snippets of semi-usefulness. Four quotes from the Desert Fox below, what a leader of men! The first quote I first saw in the LRRP Handbook when I did a course at the ILRRPS at Weingarten Germany. I think that if you have any responsibility over other staff or colleagues it is a great way to try to work. To balance the great sense and sensibility of that first quote the last one is just a work of military comic genius.
"Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
"One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization."
"In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine"
"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."
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