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**Hairy_Fairy** · 21-02-2010, 22:29

To boldly go where no man has gone before...or am I thinking of something else??

**Litotes** · 21-02-2010, 23:57

I always understood it to be: To close with the enemy and kill him.

Litotes

**muzzleflash** · 22-02-2010, 20:56

Easy - To do Baaad things, to Baaad people

**timex** · 22-02-2010, 21:44

Never Volunteer
Don't get caught
Don't admit to anything..

**ouyin** · 22-02-2010, 22:33

Originally Posted by Black_Badge

The Infantry mission is to defeat the enemy through close combat.

Yep, front of Pam 3

**DarkNinja** · 22-02-2010, 22:36

Frag those mothers?

**John_D** · 24-02-2010, 23:07

When I was a lad (more years ago than I care to remember), and a STAB infanteer Private, the mission of the infantry was:

"To close with the enemy, observe him, and destroy him".

Many years later, when I had become a Principal Scientific Officer (imaginary equivalent rank of full Colonel, ferchrissake) with an MoD agency based on top of a hill somewhere in Kent, I saw a poster on a wall in the establishment giving what was then the mission of the infantry:

"To close with the enemy, and act in such a way as to bring about his defeat"

to which some wag had added in marker pen

"...if that's OK with everyone and nobody gets hurt".

All the best,

John.