What bored Generals get up to with 30,000 men.

[California Tanker]

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More here.

plasmastik: Самые многочисленные формации солдат. (http://plasmastik.livejournal.com/309163.html#cutid1)

NTM

[freemonkey]

Wow. I Googled the photographer, Mole & Thomas, and found more "people pictures" by them, and others, at this gallery site. (http://www.hammergallery.com/images/peoplepictures/people%20pictures.htm)

[Uthgar the Brazen]

30k naive, lonely young men, and that's the best thing they could think of to do with them?

Amateurs.

;)

[Shelli]

Wow, CT! That's just spectacular! :applaud:

[cappuccino]

30k naive, lonely young men, and that's the best thing they could think of to do with them?

Amateurs.

;)

Hehe that's scary, that's exactly what I was thinking too. Isn't there supposed to be a bukkake scene or something?

[Farren]

Who's L'l Berty?

[Ensign Steve]

You read it here, folks. Officers are not men.

[godfry n. glad]

Who's L'l Berty?

A friend of Jus Tice.

[California Tanker]

There's an old tradition that you would address (if the appropriate nautical types were present) with "Ladies, Gentlemen, and Officers of the Navy." Nobody knows exactly why Royal Navy officers lost the right to be called gentlemen, but it seemed to happen back in late pre-Victorian times.

NTM

[godfry n. glad]

Hey, better this than invading yet another foreign country.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I bet Lichtenstein feels relieved.

[godfry n. glad]

Maybe so, but I doubt Grenada or Panama are completely at ease.

[seebs]

Am I the only person who expected this thread to be bitter, political, and focused on current events?

[California Tanker]

In the Atrium?!

NTM

[Clutch Munny]

1918?

I wonder what those pictures would look like if you 'shopped out the ones who were dead from Spanish flu within a year.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I :heart: Uthie & Cap.

http://lh4.google.com/image/voandoalto/RkSMARuGlVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/Bl7iQUiSjOc/KarenWalker.jpg

[California Tanker]

Was the military quite as hard-hit? Given the isolated nature of camps, I wonder if they weren't insulated to some extent?

NTM

[Dingfod]

I think the military was particularly hard-hit, half of them came down with influenza. Some sources attribute half of the U.S. troops deaths in WW1 to influenza. About 43,000 troops died of it, or about 10% of the total U.S. deaths caused by influenza.

[godfry n. glad]

That's because despite how far afield they were, they were all placed together in cramped living quarters. If one got it, they almost all got it.

[Dingfod]

The army may have transported it to Europe. Some say it first appeared at Fort Riley in Kansas.

[Ensign Steve]

USA! USA!

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:giggle:

(Remember, liv. Uth = teh eb1lz :duh: )

;)