>As noted by another poster, there are tank witches. Eila's sister
>Aurora is one in World Witches canon

Heh, cool! So, there is an in-universe version of Aarne, as well!
Aarne Juutilainen, Captain of the Finnish army, was generally known as the "Terror of Morocco" due to 5 years of serving with the Foreign Legion.
After he returned to Finland, he joined the Finnish army and was, as a Lieutenant, was directly adressed by Major General Woldemar Hägglund. Hägglund asked if the strategically important Kollaa would hold. Aarne responded that, unless ordered to run, Kollaa WOULD hold. The response came because he had, not a week earlier, been directly ordered to withdraw...an order he had blatantly ignored.

>Ah, the Gurkhas; because the British forces needed a unit that could
>make even the Highland regiments say, "Those boys are right
>hard."

Yeah, pretty much exactly that.

>I like to think that the Einheri personifications of WWII's two HMS
>Gurkhas (a Tribal-class destroyer sunk off Norway in 1940, and
>her replacement, an L-class destroyer sunk in the Med two years later)
>are jointly and severally barred from a number of pubs in greater New
>Yokosuka for excessive headbutting.

Well, if there is any people I could see being able to speak fluent Krogan as a national ability, it would be NepBat, as it were.

Simo Häyhä, meanwhile, was never a tanker. He was, however, the single most successful sniper in history. The number of kills varies, depending on source, but if one is to take his own word for it, he exceeded 500, in a war that ran for about 100 days. No wonder the Soviets called him "Белая смерть", White Death.

It might be that I'm fanboying a bit here, but take those number above. Then add to that the fact that this is winter in Finland, the number of daylight hours are limited. The temperature ran from about -4 to about -40, Fahrenheit. He is moving in massive amounts of snow(the camo he were is the OTHER reason for that nickname). And he is doing all of his shooting with an un-scoped rifle(incidentally, a Finnish Mosin-Nagant). The Soviets finally started to resort to ARTILLERY to stop this one man.

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