05-03-2008, 10:24 AM
LOL. :wink: Or China.
To be honest, I was chatting with their sergeant (I bought them all drinks knowing they'd been in forward observation posts for their tour) and there definitely is a confidence or formality with these guys. But it takes having to actually talk with them, otherwise they just seem like everyday blokes to the average Joe.
But you also have to ask whether it's to do with them being military like a Roman legionary, or if it's their training today that causes them to perhaps act with more consideration and formality? I'm finding it very difficult to come up with the right phrase, but if you could find a source text from the pre-gunpowder age, or even pre-World War 1 that also mentions the kind of traits we're talking about, I'd be more inclined to accept that the Romans had this air about them as well.
To be honest, I was chatting with their sergeant (I bought them all drinks knowing they'd been in forward observation posts for their tour) and there definitely is a confidence or formality with these guys. But it takes having to actually talk with them, otherwise they just seem like everyday blokes to the average Joe.
But you also have to ask whether it's to do with them being military like a Roman legionary, or if it's their training today that causes them to perhaps act with more consideration and formality? I'm finding it very difficult to come up with the right phrase, but if you could find a source text from the pre-gunpowder age, or even pre-World War 1 that also mentions the kind of traits we're talking about, I'd be more inclined to accept that the Romans had this air about them as well.
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