Highland Light Infantry Puns

From my great grandmother we have been told he lied about his age and Joined the army in 1917 or 1916 then we know nothing until he was sent to India and met my great grandmother in 1925, on his wedding photo in 1927 he is a colour sergeant does this indicate he was in combat? or is it relatively common to have gained his rank in that time frame, he was working class as well if that helps.

what is the likelihood he fought in the first world war?

sorry if this is the wrong subreddit.

EDIT: he most likely was recruited in Glasgow but it may have been Edinburgh.

I am currently working on a 3rd year University History project where I cross-reference the dates of the letters of my Grandmother's brother -Private Raymond Joseph Allen- with the location of his unit and the experiences he would had prior to writing these letters.

I have 16 letters/post cards in total. Some of them are easy, for example his post card from June 10 1944- the Battle of Buron took place June 8, pretty easy to get in that mindset given what we know about "Bloody Buron." Any help would be much appreciated, even sources you might have.

http://imgur.com/a/ahx44 Here is a link to the letters, I've digitized them and uploaded them to imgur for you all to look over. Pretty cool stuff.

So your average space marine in power armour weighs about 500 kilograms - I read a lot of space marines charging in and chainswording people, but I feel like with that much mass just racing through and shoulder checking people would likely be enough to kill them. I see talk of 100 km/h repeated, which is just nonsense - lacking a quadruped's flexible spine and stride length, a biped's low ground contact time means they're the wrong shape to get that fast regardless of physiology. The thing is though even at half that speed I'm pretty sure that given how hard ceramite is that kind of momentum would just straight up kill a human that they hit - it's like a car with no crumple zone that's trying to kill you.

We constantly see things like space marines leaping into trenches and dealing death with weapons but it seems like it would be far more efficient to just jump into the trench at one end and sprint to the other, leaving a trail of corpses as you go. And spikes on armour for traitors seems silly, last thing you want is impaled corpses slowing you down and providing a buffer zone.

• During WWII, the German tactical infantry doctrine of the era based a squad's firepower on the MG-42 machine gun in the light machine gun role, with the role of the rifleman being largely to carry ammunition and provide covering fire for the machine gunners.
• The United State's, however, took the opposite approach, with their squad's firepower being based on the rifleman, with the light machine gunner providing support to them.
• What were the pros and cons of both doctrines, and why would a military choose one over the other?

From what i can tell Light Infantry is kinda just regular infantry but faster to deploy in exchange for being shit in any major fighting. But is there a specific role for light infantry in major fighting with heavier forces already there or would it kinda just sit around?

Note: By regular I mean has any (truck/APC/IFV/MRAP/etc.) form of motor transport for all of it's infantry at once, because that is pretty much the standard at this point. Although light infantry can have motorization sometimes, although not armored, the definition of "light infantry" is a very depends thing in my opinion.

Had those projector lights facing my house, just put them up lastnight, woke up to them gone and footprints through my yard. Merry fucking Christmas

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