European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes May 1985 dumb grunts infantrymen Are still far from obsolete by Don Tate staff writer Grunt a five letter word that rhymes with dumb Grunt an unfortunate combination of sometimes defined As a lower order of primate Princi Pally of value when he is saving the hides of his intellectual in these Days of increasingly sophisticated Pushbutton some say the species May become but when you say that surrounded by a group of grunts from the Audie Murphy battalion 1st 2nd 3rd inf in which the world War ii hero its Best to until your Teeth and then its been called mos but do you still get much of that dumb Grunt Flack in these Days of the modern army we get All laughs a shaking his Ever time we go to Ever time we go to says some Guy behind a desk will look whats that line dog doing in Here Messing up our floors or some Mechanic has to get in his two screws adds dont matter what you give a hell give him a wet paper and hell break it in a week really Hurt my he Doest look real when youve been routinely called Bush beat what else is new these particular grunts not Only Pound the they operate out of the new Bradley fighting Steve from wants the world to without the other people have nothing to the other people got to go on a employ Kline nuke an air plane cant take puts in Tim from a battleship cant take a can blow it but cant hold after All the buttons Are it comes Down to the last Guy on the ground holding to each his says you never know till youve done it you got to come out there and fight weather with got to get Down in the mud with come out and freeze in the Snow with to be a Grunt youve got to have a lot of endur adds 4 Jim from Echos staff Joe from South youll be rained on for a says go without go without be dirty for who knows How some people might say that not too what kind of intelligence does it take to be a Good infantryman mental a voice common says plenty of grunts i mean you can have 10 years of College and two and if you dont have the right kind of youre Henderson aiming a Finger at his an air plane cant take a battleship cant take a nuke can blow it up but cant hold after Oil the buttons Are it comes Down to the last what about guts if we go to Collins Well find out about and Candy somebody says with a they All want you to know they didst join the army to sit behind any the infantry is the they the infantry is where they take a kid who cant shoot a can of shaving Cream straight and turn him into a fighting the infantry is where you find out whether youre a hero or a to a they much prefer life in the Field to Back in cause were Moyin and Henderson were Doin our Back in its spit and cleaning and in the Field they give you a Mission and you go out there and get it says it takes a lot of spirit and a lot of will you forget How pretty you in the Douglas goes no matter How hard it or How tired you the Reward is great you know you went through you know you did All you can sometimes it gets Down in Black and White that you did but paper work Doest always Tell the real whats left inside you is the real infantry is the Queen of says we take and hold what the highers want us we go in no matter How dirty or How bad it and dig the enemy then we move keep surging were the How would the Queen do against the russians when the target shoots it gets a Little Tough Henderson wed have to replies Kline we dont have any Choice Over theres too Many of the other Guys to screw so the dumb Grunt talk Doest get them Down most of it is someone theres nothing less humorous than a humorous another i get a Little tired of hearing that a Grunt is built with a Button on his grumps that Ever time he sits he just goes to i think there they know who out there doing that if they dont have some infantry around  just get in willing to put up any amount of Hen Derson that when the balloon goes those people who Call us dummies Are going to be the first in line to its just like an atheist All his life when the ground starts Hes Gonna look up to the it takes a lot of knowledge to survive on the Battle interjects master Nelson battalion master who survived Sham time is pm time is it takes a special kind of theres no other mos in the army that has to know so says in we have to take All the garbage and All the in we take All the 4 Jim Collins find out about Tim the last Guy on the not of of Tony Nauroth staff Joe Douglas work Doest