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* The American Continental Army started out as this. It was made of people who didn't have any experience of warfare, who didn't have any strong officers who could inspire strong discipline among them, many of them deserted the "army" to go back to their families and farms and didn't return in weeks. It suffered from lack of food, uniforms and ammunition, bad language and diseases were infecting the army so hard that hardened [[Seven Years' War]] veterans were shocked by it, most of the soldiers only fought the revolution half-heartly, alcohol was consumed in great volumes, etc. It's said that when George Washington got to see the "army" he had accepted command of, he had a [[Heroic BSOD]] for half a hour before he started cleaning it up.
**A lot of the discipline problems were not so much because they were criminals but because they were respectable enough to have to good an opinion of themselves to submit to military discipline without a lot of convincing.
* As a general rule much of this is
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