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An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow

- Major-General J.F.C Fuller, "Training soldiers for war" 1914

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OJTS

on-job training standard

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Today in Military History

September 27

1918:

CANAL DU NORD, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 1 Oct 18)

1918:

VC won by Lt George Fraser Kerr, 3rd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood (near Cambrai), France

1918:

VC won by Lt Graham Thomson Lyall, 102nd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood

1941:

First Liberty ship, the Patrick Henry launched in Baltimore

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