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I remember talking with my great-great uncle about WWI and trench warfare, the look of horror in his eyes even 70 years later said it all.
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Saw an interesting docco on this subject. Both sides had to learn how to cope with the new weapon. Apparently if you stick your machine guns in front of an advancing enemy it's really hard to hit them. Site them off to the sides and it's suddenly a shooting gallery.
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Originally Posted by Doc HM 
Saw an interesting docco on this subject. Both sides had to learn how to cope with the new weapon. Apparently if you stick your machine guns in front of an advancing enemy it's really hard to hit them. Site them off to the sides and it's suddenly a shooting gallery.
Makes sense, but there's the psychological part of running into machine gun fire. Makes me wonder what it would take for me to do that. Surely for my family or if I were going to die anyway, probably for some of my friends, but just to stick it to the Kaiser?
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Probably not in a vacuum, but those guys charging next to you have become your friends.
More than one soldier involved in Blackhawk Down cites being under heavy fire as the moment they decided to reenlist. They knew their buddies needed them. Some hugely moving moments there.
Another point that was made is that you don't really get scared in a firefight, but you do get really pissed at the people shooting at you.
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A firefight is one thing, even heavy fire. It's another to just charge a machine gun nest.
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True. I meant it more as a (related) point of reference.
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There were significant desertion problems in World War One, most notably in the French army.
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