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re: Rewatching Band of Brothers today
Posted on 5/30/18 at 7:57 am to LSUDonMCO
Posted on 5/30/18 at 7:57 am to LSUDonMCO
Also, Cobb wasn't the blowhard baffoon they made him out to be. From everything I've read, he was actually a good soldier, just a really mean drunk.
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Cobb, after drinking schnapps to intoxication, was arrested after assaulting Lt. Foley (the movie depicted Cobb as, instead, verbally assaulting Sgt. Martin). During processing for a court-martial, a frustrated Colonel Sink told Foley "You could have saved us all a lot of trouble. You should have shot him". Cobb was court-martialed, eventually discharged from the Army and returned to the States.
Cobb was not discharged immediately after the incident, but instead was allowed to remain with his unit until after V-E Day.
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Posted on 5/31/18 at 2:46 pm to sicboy
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Cobb wasn't the blowhard baffoon they made him out to be. From everything I've read, he was actually a good soldier, just a really mean drunk.
I don’t know. I kind of have to question just how good a soldier he really was.
I mean the guy enlisted in 1933, so he was a career soldier (not to mention a bit older than the others). He was discharged in 1945 at the end of the war as an E-2 Private. 12 years, no promotions. And it’s not like he was promoted and then busted down for infractions. NO PROMOTIONS. EVER.
You know how hard that is to do? Especially with combat experience? You have to be a major 8-ball to do that.
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