CIB's being awarded to com engs

[armored infantry]

Oh you had to bring up mules, huh?! Here's some things we have had to say about them in the past!

 

Army mules ... you got to love them. After all, despite our increasingly mechanized force, they had a job to fulfill during the war, and they did it biting, kicking, and being generally fractious all the way...... kinda like our combat infantrymen.

 

Perhaps Rocky can attest to the mulishness of your average combat infantryman.

 

One wonders if immediately following the successful charge of Grant's Mule Brigade the Confederates did not hurriedly set about forming a Mule Brigade of their own. I can see it now. Ol' Stonewall turns to an aide and says, send in the Mule Brigade against the enemy's left flank..... that should throw 'em back.

 

Jim