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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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Officers enter the army at an age when they are more likely to take up existing opinions than to form their own. They grow up carrying into effect orders and regulations founded on those received opinions; they become, in some measure identified with existing views, till, in the course of years, the ideas thus gradually imbibed get too firmly rooted to be either shaken or eradicated by the force of argument or reflection. In no profession is the dread of innovation so great as in the army.
- Colonel John Mitchell, British Army, 1839
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June 12
1885: The Essex and Kent Scottish: Semper Paratus (Always ready)
1944: VC won by Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski, Royal Canadian Air Forcem over Cambrai (posthumous)
1982: Attack on Mount Harriet, Falkland Islands, ( 42 Royal Marine Commando)
1982: Attack on Two Sisters, Falkland Islands, ( 45 Royal Marine Commando)
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