Posted on 06/26/2015 6:44:55 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Thanks a bunch! Too late for me tonight, will try it tomorrow.
What I do know was that all the Marines I worked with had a attitude. It basically was there is no way I let my fellow Marine down. It didnt matter what had to be done.
Whether the term devil dog came from the Germans or not the Marines I served with took that statement to heart. That means what ever it takes we get the job done was done period. Backing down was not a option because you did not want to be that guy.
If some one has a problem with the USMC it is there problem not the Marines.
And like the statement says “United States Marines for when has to be destroyed over night”.
Just because they couldn’t prove it doesn’t mean it wasn’t true. Were you a Marine or not. My squadron (VMFAT-201) was the largest Phantom squadron ever. That’s not in the history books either, because our squadron was disbanded and became part of the Yuma squadron VMFAT-101, which is still in existence today as F-18’s. There are many of us have lived Marine Corps history, don’t presume you know more than us.
You didn’t live in 1918, and you aren’t the journalist Floyd Phillips Gibbons believed to have created the myth, and those are Marine Corps historians.
Thanks Jimpick. I’ve had that attitude my whole life since then. Whatever it takes to get the job done. I have been fortunate though, many times in my career those in charge just turned me loose.
Neither did you and you obviously wasn’t a Marine so you know squat about true Marine history. As Connor implied KMA.
LOL, history doesn’t work that way.
Fag colors being displayed on the white house tonight says you’re wrong.
I have done things I was told I could not do because I knew better. The Marine Corps instilled in me an attitude of just because you cant doesnt mean I cant.
I know many many marines That have that attitude. Former Marines who walk into the room and every one respects just because of the way they carry themselves. A simple display of confidence in themselves that just radiates.
Other just dont get it. They put it off as arrogance. You know it is just confidence that you just wont give up, so you know you will prevail.
I dont care what others think. It is what I think that matters. That is what I get from other Marines and former enlisted Marines.
The difficult jobs we will take care of right now; for the impossible jobs, we will have to steal some more s#it from the Doggies and Squids, it will take an extra hour.
An hour huh. Must be a smoke break in there.
That's a keeper!
The Corps taught us that we could always run one more step, do one more push up, one more leg lift, or hump one more hill. When you can overcome your self and push on, you have eliminated the greatest threat to your success.
God bless our beloved Corps!
Semper Fi bump
When I went to Jump School we had a dozen or so Marines in our class. We got two water breaks a day, morning and afternoon. Ten or fifteen minutes. While the rest of us were trying to find shade and lick our wounds in the hell we we’re enduring these guys would get in a circle and do push ups the whole time. I guess they had tickets on to Force Recon or whatever but those guys deserved and got my respect. Of course, they were about half my age so I could maintain my dignity with that little fig leaf but even so I would not want to have to take them on. I will never forget, “You are going to push Georgia until I get tired of watching!”
Smoke and C-RATS.
Old Corps, Hard Core, Marine Corps!
Oh Yeah.
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