Maybe its just me or it could be happening in other American Regular Infantry Division reenactment rifle squads too. A person gets a hold of me to join our squad. We talk on the phone , e-mail each other and I send out the information packet on how to become a member. I tell him that 60% of the regular equipment I have for sale here at the house to get him in faster to join us.
Well as always, you don't hear from this person for months. He must of moved on. Today I get a e-mail that he and some other folks are joining reenacting. Great I though would be a huge boost to us Battlebabies plus thay are local people to boot.
As I read on they didn't join us but a airborne unit 100 miles away!! What!! Yes all the work I did went down the drain.
I guess being a regular foot soldier, the majority of the American Army in WW 2 is not the same for reenacting. At most events the paratroopers are far more common then "foots" like us. The vets see it and shake their heads. I was in the 95th I.D., was in the 3rd , 1st, 7th armor , ect. ect.
Why is their only two airborne units that everyone in this hobby flock too? Heck they are given seperate battles at major events. So elite they don't normally hang out with common GI'S. One time a para reenactor told me he and his unit don't work with folks like us. Their fight on thier own . Maybe they won the war? To get new people to join a reenactment unit maybe I'll have to rebuild my kit and unit to become a 101 or 82nd trooper. Could fib and add a airborne tab over the Checkerboard.
Maybe its time we all too joined the masses, AIRBORNE. Where did I put my BOB movie. Time to learn every line from it.
Pat