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As 12th Special Forces Group (United States) shows in its lineage section, '1st Special Forces' in the official title of all SFGs is a reference to the 1st Special Service Force. I apologise if I'm telling you something you already know. I hope you won't mind me reinserting the reference with some clarification. Kind regards Buckshot06(prof) 14:54, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Negative! The 1st Special Forces of today refers to the regimental affiliation of all SF Groups in the US Army. The "Devils Brigade" was a light infantry, Canadian-American, unit which bared no resemblance to what we today know as Special Forces. It trained for action in the upper Scandinavian countries but only saw brief action in Alaska and then in Italy. The only reason that the US Army Center of Military History associated SF with the First Special Service Force of WWII was because they couldn't have a paper trail to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which was a United States intelligence unit and more in line with what SF was formed for.

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Do what you want with it. It was from a publication of the US Army, which makes it open and free sourcing. I added a boarder to the top of it which came from the same publicaion. Meyerj (talk) 14:33, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You have left a dispute on my page on General Michael D Healy. I edited the errors that you mentioned on the talk page but the dispute still stands. If there are other facts that you have questions about please let me know. I want the page to be as accurate as possible. I know General Healy well and the information is accurate the best of my knowledge. I would really like to see the dispute taken off. Thank you for your time. Kennedy Consulting 03:36, 10 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doodledorf (talk • contribs)

Presidential Unit Citations

I see you have issues with my contributions to the article.

your criticism of my actions as a) vandalism and b) directed towards a particular unit are mistaken
My intent was to reduce the huge amount of text within the table. The citation quoted in full did not to my mind contribute to the article in a very meaningful way. Tables should be for information that works well as a table, and as such the text was not benefitting readability.
the information was not deleted but added to the unit to which it applied.
the article is already quite large at around 100 Kb, and it might be an idea to consider splitting into an article on the Citation itself and a List of... article for the instances of the Citation.
may I suggest a compromise position where the citation is precised into a form that conveys the circumstances under which the award was made (without the dramatic language).
I would also suggest that the specifics of the particular Presidential order belong in the form of a reference or footnote, as they really are a case of veering into minutinae.

How do you feel about my thinking?GraemeLeggett (talk) 22:15, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have posted my response on your talk page Meyerj (talk) 12:20, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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5th Marines, 7th Marines, 9th Marines. 5th, 7th and 9th marines. Just like: The Prime Minister of Angola and the Prime Minister of Canada. The prime ministers of Angola and Canada. Primergrey (talk) 03:35, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You may or may not be more knowledgeable than I in reference to this subject. However, AP and DoD Style guides and even Wikipedia state Abbreviations should be capitalized. The full name of Marine Corps ground units of the infantry and artillery above the battalion are numbered and include the unit level, i.e. 9th Marine Regiment, 12th Marine Regiment. Abbreviated the word regiment is dropped and written as: 9th Marines or 12th Marines and when in sequence, 9th and 12th Marines instead of 9th and 12th Marine Regiments. Meyerj (talk) 16:18, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

A question, sir

I hope I'm not disturbing you but you may be the only person to answer a query I have due to your position in the WWR. What is the OFFICIAL policy about wounded or other discharged Marines appearing in full dress uniform at various functions? Do they seek permission from somewhere or are they inactive reserve? Thanks very much, some of old timers are mystified...Foofbun (talk) 00:33, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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