Real Army tied with Pretend Army at the half.

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people might respect your comments more if you weren't so holier than thou and condescending.

When the OP mentions TAMU as 'pretend Army', I doubt you are going to get much of a measured response. Especially since the Aggies did not lose the game in question.

"Give me an army of West Point graduates, I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war!"
--Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.

 

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When the OP mentions TAMU as 'pretend Army', I doubt you are going to get much of a measured response. Especially since the Aggies did not lose the game in question.

"Give me an army of West Point graduates, I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war!"
--Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.

Best. Fake. Quote. EVVVvvaaaarrrr!!!

 

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Best. Fake. Quote. EVVVvvaaaarrrr!!!

I love how sips always bring up the "It's fake" line, especially since every single place you look to find famous Patton quotes will have it

Half the things he said were not "On the record"

There is no documentation of him saying "War isnt about some poor dumb bastid dying for his country, it's about getting the other poor dumb bastids to die for their country", but no one argues that he said it. People heard the man say it, and published it as fact, just like half the quotes in the history of man.

 

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Ignorance truely is bliss in your case I suppose

In WWII, Texas A&M sent 27,000 men into the battlefields of Europe/Japan. That's not those who were "trained", that's those who actually had the enemy shooting at them. A&M had another 10,000 enlisted men in the army who were never sent over to the battlefield, but where enlisted soldiers in the military. 37,000 enlisted men in the armed forces over a 4 year period. That's astounding.

Care to guess how many Army and Navy sent? Of course you wouldnt, because you clearly have no clue, so I'll fill you in. Navy sent roughly 11,000, and Army sent roughly 14,000. Of those, only 13,000 combine were ever in a real battle. So, combined, Army and Navy had 25,000 enlisted men in the war to end all wars.

37,000 > 25,000

If you want, we can delve into WWI, the Korean War, Vietnam, desert storm, and now, but methinks I've made my point.

And considering 3 of the 10 highest ranking generals in the armed forces today are A&M grads, and more Aggies have died in battle than from any other school in history, I wouldnt think they are considered a joke by anyone except liberal touting sips who would as soon move to Canada than fight in a war. Someone from a a school full of pansies who protest war so viemently telling an academy with unmtached military history than they are a joke is sickening.

I was not talking about WWII and overall. I am referenced their CURRENT output.

It has been proven over and over that Patton never said that because their is no real proof that he did. Even Aggies at Texags admit that it is not a real quote.

 

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I was not talking about WWII and overall. I am referenced their CURRENT output.

It has been proven over and over that Patton never said that. Even Aggies at Texags admit that it is not a real quote.

In which the arguement still holds. There are more graduates of Texas A&M enlisted in the branches of the armed forces right now than any of the service academies. Grantd, this is due to A&M's vastly superior enrollment and former student body, but it is nothing to scoff at. At least half of all graduating seniors in the corp have gone into the armed forces after graduation every year since A&M moved away from being a pure military school in the late 60s.