Posted on 03/03/2025 12:22:11 PM PST by Red Badger
Marines ARE Marines. That never changes.
lol. Soldiers can come up with the funniest shit you’ve ever heard of you give them the chance.
But the song is totally true. The difference between the world of a soldier that is outside the wire for the majority of the time versus the soldier that lives inside the wire was so distinct it was two different worlds.
Agreed. EOD/engineers Psyops, civil affairs, bomb dogs and their handlers; etc were known to make a showing outside the wire now and again
But the real fobbits would stand out like a sore thumb when you saw them
My father was a Marine in the Pacific, during WWII. I don’t think he believed his status as a Marine ceased with his discharge.
(I knew the names ‘Montezuma’ and ‘Tripoli’ and could sing the hymn before I could even read :-)
An antonym for pogue is the acronym REMF.
Me grandparents would approve of your comment.....
Heh. They actually stayed in reg. (Uniform and hair)
Pogues were often forward deployed.
By definition, REMFs were rear echelon, in the rear with the gear and the AC.
A Democratic is always a Democrat first.
Being a Marine is way down on his list.
A Democratic is always a Democrat first.
East German Song - The Party Is Always Right
The Party, The Party is always right
And comrade, may it ever be so;
For who fights for the right
He is always right
Against lies and exploitation
[women] Whoever insults life
is stupid or bad
Whoever defends humanity
Is always right
Grown from the spirit of Lenin
Welded by Stalin
The party – the party – the party
Gosh; that’s extremely creepy...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3807163/posts
Rep. Seth Moulton tells military to question Trump’s orders
military.com ^ | January 9, 2020 | Hope Hodge Seck
Posted on 1/10/2020, 1:19:20 PM by bus man
A lawmaker who earned the Bronze Star during combat in Iraq as a Marine officer is denouncing President Donald Trump’s foreign policy as “rudderless,” and calling on active-duty military officers to question the orders they’re getting from the commander in chief and refuse to follow them if they’re not lawful.
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat and former presidential candidate who ended his White House bid in August, made the remarks in a speech at the Atlantic Council on Thursday, a day after Trump triumphantly addressed the nation and announced that Iran seemed to be backing down from hostilities. . .
Yeah, and they were also the one with the big honking M-16 A2’s, when everyone else had an M4. And they would have their magazine attached to the butt stock with this goofy magazine holder they bought from US Cav
And the fobbit officers always had like this big fancy pistol sling for their M9s that would never work with full battle rattle on, but looked real cool in the chow hall
Nope... that’s doggies speak. But for a Marine Officer to speak about an enlisted man in those terms tells you he wasn’t much of an officer.
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