Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"

On 1/21/2025 6:50 AM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:40:09 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:23:06 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:01:25 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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In any major war, WW 2 in this case, "career personnel" make up a very
small percentage of military officers.. Simply because there is no
need for great numbers in piece time so, prior to war few are trained.

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Brazil has far more senior officers than the US. Example: The
US has 43 4-star generals. Bolsonaro used them as office boys.
None of them ever fought an external enemy.
They retire when they're 50 with full pensions (their salary+a
promotion).
Also any wife or daughter of an officer is entitled to his
pension if he dies. They only lose it if they re-marry (in case of
daughters, marry).
I have some colleagues that never married because they make
over US $ 25.000 a month from their military pensions. Working as
doctors they make around US$ 5.000 tops.
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As for, "Mean while in the actual world, a Brazilian division
acquitted themselves very well", from what I read the Brazilian
contingents "went to war" with the understand that the U.S.was to
supply all arms and supplies, right down to their uniforms and that
they would act under the control of U.S. forces commanders.

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Yes, the commanders were American. But clothing and food was
supposed to be supplied by the Brazilian military....
They got the color of the uniforms wrong because the Brazilian
Military were fascists (still are) and thought they would be fighting
for Hitler. Hence Brazilian uniforms = German uniforms.
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Not to comment on numbers of Brazilian Officers but the idea that
Brazil was planning on supplying a military unit half the world away
when  the U.S. was already supplying a much larger group in the same
location is just plain silly. Here the U.S. is with a much larger and
fully operational supply system and Brazil isn't going to utilize it?
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In fact, the largest problem in any military operation isn't
solders... it is supply. It's easy to move the troops, just chuck them
out of an airplane, but what do you do at supper time?

  Brazil agreed to allow the US to build a Naval Base in Natal,
in exchange for the US financing  the "Companhia Siderurgica
Nacional".
 //Because of its strategic position (Natal is one of the cities in
Brazil nearest to Western Europe and Africa, especially Dakar,
Senegal), an American air base was built in a suburb of Natal named
Parnamirim during World War II, as part of the so-called Operation
Rainbow. This base provided support for allied troops fighting in
north Africa. Thousands of American soldiers were sent to Natal. Their
presence left traces in the culture of the city. The city also held
the Potenji Conference, which took place right after the Casablanca
Conference and defined the active participation of Brazil in the war,
being the only Latin American country to send troops overseas to fight
in Europe. //
  It was about supply. The Americans used a base in Brazil to
supply Brazilian soldiers in Southern Europe .... because our military
wouldn't.
PS The base was returned to Brazil in 1946. There are no
American bases in Brazil.
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Sorta right but one division from Brasil was a mere rounding error among the gargantuan volume of Allied supply and logistics, not a prime motive.
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