When I Can Tell At Sight a Mauser Rifle From a Javelin

[old_blevins]

A book I was reading last night quoted a 1967 Time magazine article as describing General William Westmoreland as "the paradigm of a military professional" which struck me as very close to being the very model of a modern major general.

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[bill_sheehan]

But what is meant by "commissariat?"

[old_blevins]

The 7/8th of the force supporting the 1/8th that makes up the maneuver battalions.

[liddle_oldman]

If you pronounce it "milit'ry", which they might well have, it scans perfectly.