Posted on 01/07/2009 6:19:19 AM PST by Kimmers
Pray for our troops and their leadership....
Semper Fi
I see that Force Recon Marines have not lost their broad grasp of the English language to communicate. They are Marine’s Marines!
May God bless and keep them safe. May He smite their enemies, with extreme prejudice.
Semper fi,
(50 years ago today, I started boot camp at Parris Island Platoon 102)
outstanding post
I have no idea where the public get the idea Marines aren’t eloquent.
That is some of the most gifted prose out there.
April of this year will be 45 years ago for me ... MCRD Parris Island Plt. 236.
They can write, they just can’t read.
< /john kerry>
Thank you and God Bless you for that service.
I got my 2LT's commission in the US Army on June 6th 1980. I thought that being commissioned as an infantry officer on D-Day was kind of appropriate. Between the reserves and active time I went 14 years in both infantry and armor and never heard a round fired in anger. I was only able to salute the bodies of my friends who fought and died because they were in the right spot at the right time, God keep them all. I was forced out in 1994 by the Clinton Reduction in Force, damn him to hell. I'd be in the sandbox now as a light colonel or a full bull colonel and I'd be in much better physical condition than my current decrepit state of affairs. Basically at deaths door if I'm not careful.
Recon marines aren't the only folks with a broad grasp of the English language. I once listened as an old grizzled SGM (Sergeant Major) at the Brigade level cursed for 15 minutes and never once repeated himself over some BS paperwork requirement handed down by the puzzle palace of a peacetime Pentagon.
Great letter but it appears old and possibly fake?
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/freezing.asp
John Murtha? < spit >
I did a snopes check using the title and it came up empty....glad you found it....like you said, great letter......
EXCELLENT.
THX.
“I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement.”
Even if they’re probably known, why broadcast tactics?
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I see that Force Recon Marines have not lost their broad grasp of the English language to communicate. They are Marine’s Marines!
May God bless and keep them safe. May He smite their enemies, with extreme prejudice.
Semper fi,
(50 years ago today, I started boot camp at Parris Island Platoon 102)
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Oh yea, sweet music to my ears. This Marine need to write a book.
I was in Paris Island 18 years ago today, Remember having chow hall duty around New Years day so I may have been serving SOS on this day.
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm glad that my war was in a relatively civilized VietNam (it's also warmer and not nearly as mountainous).
LOL - I humped plenty of ruck up and down the Seven Sisters - Welcome Home!
what was it like firing a cross bow? was it your T.O. weapon
Do you still have your "leather neck" cover, and is it still pliable after all these years?
What was it like fighting with the original "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion
Thanks I was feeling old for a minute there realizing that I was there 32 years ago, damn, I feel young now, kinda
(/grin)
I was saying that while on the ship on the way to Vietnam. Must have been all those Korean War documentaries I watched on Sunday mornings.
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