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To: Choose Ye This Day
I respect Marines and the corps great deal. I know a lot of Marines. Unfortunately I have known quite a few men who had mental problems who were very attracted to the Marines. Most of them washed out... but not all. Any large group of people are going to end up with a few oddballs, especially a group as prestigious as the United States Marine Corps.
3 posted on 10/18/2011 12:15:36 PM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: fireman15

Look at the police. They are stunned that a Marine is there.
Either this guy is a phony or he has mental problems. Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmmmm, mmmmm!


10 posted on 10/18/2011 12:23:53 PM PDT by GunPkrBkr (I'd rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six.)
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To: fireman15
Any large group of people are going to end up with a few oddballs, especially a group as prestigious as the United States Marine Corps.
You're absolutely right and in the Corps they are (or were back in the day) known as "ten percenters." That is, the 10% of your unit who were flat-out screw ups.
They were always the $hitbirds, the ones who never got the message, always late to formation, AWOL. couldn't shoot straight, had their own agendas, and more importantly, the ones who would get other Marines killed in combat.
There never was a "Code Red" like in the movies, but we essentially handled the them the same way.
18 posted on 10/18/2011 12:47:00 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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