You have missed some of the points that were displayed. This story is told on some many levels. Loyalty, discipline, courage, and so much more. RSMs are indeed the GODs. But they need to be a balanced GOD. Did you not seen any kindness/softness shown by Lauderdale?
In the movie Rorkes Drift near the end when Colour Sgt Bourne is calling the roll there is a moment of fondness/kindness displayed. It is hardly noticeable but worth every split second of that downplayed emotion. I have no idea if NCOs of that era would have ever displayed that type of emotion but it was one that might have come from the times of WW1 and WW2. Soldiers do have this comradeship and for the most part do combat FOR each others lives. RSMs and instructors need to instil certain disciplines so that reaction is almost natural.
What I do know is that today those who have been freed from this so called ARROGANCE seem to be able to claim benefits for the 40 kids they have in a one bedroomed flat in London. Self certified and signed off of course by someone form the same area of Africa maybe working in the benefits offices. With even social workers originally form the same areas coming to visit the forty fictitious children.
What I know is that decent people are normally decent people and scum bags are precisely that no matter where they are from.
The whole idea of making everyone the same so they can mould them is required. Of course you could never fit this particular hole unless you lose all your impressions.
As Sgt Major Shut up might say La de da [reffering to the clever pianist Gunner Graham] in a certain hated by everyone????? comedy series. Oh bring it back please.
Good RSMs and senior ranks normally know full well there is a time and place for certain styles of leadership.
For its day Attenborough was very near perfect in this outing. The Jumped up educated black man in this story may have been a forerunner to what has happened in those nations left to their own devices. In the same year this was set a certain man became a leading man in Uganda. In another nine leader of that country. We know how that went but we should also realise that if we look at the whole of Africa there is an overall cheapness regarding life. The education given in our hallowed halls is in one ear and out the other. Mandela is to be seen as unusually decent and thoughtful. The African may well have been little different in attitude to his fellows before the race began on the 1800s. Slavery is rife yet we white man are scorned for our part [correctly] but still it goes on. Slaughter of an opposing view goes on and it is painful to know that GOD plays such a great part in all of this allowing ISIS and similarly minded sections to treat life so cheaply.
Yes perhaps we do need to study the inner workings of the black man as suggested. Me thinks they should have beenl left well enough alone as with certain Arab lands. It is a pity that we could not have discovered something other than oil to use as a power. Sea water or what is left fly tipped everywhere.
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