GroundPounder
Well-Known Member
"If Allah wills it, it will recover."
If true.... I'm totally speechless.
Much different context, and 30 plus years ago, but we had 3 Saudi students in my Infantry Officer Basic Class. During field problems their answer to contingency questions was almost universally that. " If Allah wills X, it will happen " It was amazing, because to all outward appearances that was really their mindset. If it happens it happens, and if not, it wasn't to be....
There are a few other lasting impressions I have of those guys; 1. They would drop out of PT runs approx 25 yards into the run, as we passed our BOQ rooms. They would go in, and reappear at the rally point for that days training. 2. They only ever wore the same uniforms, which were similar to our class B uniforms at the time, with weird brown dress type shoes. In the field, garrison whatever, that's what they wore. All three of the guys pants were about 3 inches too long, and had worn out little half moons around the heel where they had stepped on them for so long.
We had two guys from Jordan, one of which was very similar to that, and 1 that would have been considered an outstanding solider by any measure.