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Are you saying William Arkin, REMF? Totally, 100% agree.

Bill O'Reilly is on this guy like a bad rash. I've never been so bowled over by a journalist as I have been these past two nights. You can forget "Fair and Balanced" BO'R is totally BS over this Arkin guy's column in the WaPo. He is totally, totally back on the mark. I thought his hair was going to burst into flames!

Arkin called our troops, "mercenaries" and said that they receive "obscene amenities" in Iraq. I hope Bill makes this guy rue the day that he was born.

Most sincerely,
Marine Mom

I was in the green machine 78-84. I was in a headquarters company in a battalion in the 82nd. For enlisted it was just us medics, some cooks and the rest were basically chained to typewriters, unless the clerks got exercise by being released for some upper body file cabinet stuff. Anyways I vaguely remember an occupation, I think, called 'intelligence/annalist'. It wasn't go interrogate the SS Colonel stuff at all. It was the bottom, absolute, starting point for an enlisted guy, and basically was making sure people had their rating up, cards filled, safes locked in the evening. Anything of importance was done by senior NCO's. An E-3 would be sweeping up, making coffee and picking up the section sergeant's laundry. Maybe on a good day they would let you move the display cards during some presentation.

I saw the O'Reilly Factor tonight and those 2 generals looked like they would break Arkin like a rotten toothpick if they ever got their hands on him!!

Not that I would blame them either - personally I'd get in a contributions as well.