And another:

You are an NCO instructor on a cadre job teaching counter-insurgency tactics and small unit operations. The backwater nation you are helping (balkanized world) has been in civil war for 30 years. Unlike many trainee groups, you get experienced soldiers with good fieldcraft and who are anxious to learn. You only have to tell them once. And when you are preparing to lead them in the first CQ assault, you note that all of them have fixed bayonets even before being asked. These are likely one of the best bunch of troops on their balkanized continent. (Eritrea + US SF trainer)

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:29 PM <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Affirmative.

In a modern context:

Your mercenary unit good heartedly agrees to join a local military's shooting competition. They have some elite troops from a far off mountainous region (these fellows carry large L shaped machetes and are about 5'8" at the tallest). During a run down from the 200m distance from target, starting from prone, ending prone at the 100m, you clock one of these men in combat boots and webgear at about 11 seconds. During a 2 km run with full fighting order and support weapons, the allowable window is 14-18 minutes and you often see units coming in absolutely beat. A group of these local mountain men arrives at the 16 minute mark without a sweat and laughing and joking at the finish line. During the post competition party, one of them does standing backflips.
You realize some local planetary troops are pretty good soldiers.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:24 PM Graham Donald - gndonald2001 at yahoo.com.au (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
Ghurkas?


On Tuesday, 14 April 2020, 4:24:57 am AWST, xxxxxx@gmail.com <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:




A unit of exceptionally talented native troops, expert night fighters and hand to hand sentry killers, is dismissed from the battle lines. They have a reputation for leaving their long arms behind and just taking a long, bent knife with them to go into the no-man's land between forces to search for enemy patrols and snipers as well as spotters. They either don't come back or come back with a string of ears. The ears start to stink and gross out some upper echelons with squeamish stomachs, so the unit is rotated out of this theater. (Also WW1)

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