Getting the Boot (A 34 yr old reporter joins the Marines)

A real mustang.

He explained that to the audience when he was starting up the show (near the start
of the drive into Iraq); I'm sure a lot of civilians like myself would
otherwise not understand the term.
Dye (and his show) went of sabbatical for some months as he was the second unit
director for Oliver Stone's movie on Alexander The Great.
(hey, you can't always pick who you work with in Hollyweird, but Dye
said this might be a stepping-stone for him to be the real "man-in-charge"
on a film in the future)

Anyway...bump and a directive to lurkers/posters to check out Dye's show (post #57).

61 posted on 07/05/2004 3:56:05 PM PDT by VOA

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...It was Capt. DYE who first informed us So. Californians about BUSH/CHENNEY's quick response to 9/11...

...as their seeing us being in a new Cold War to be fought world wide in order to make things safer here at home.

BRAVO.

More is shared about this in my Contribution to the new book:

'Modern Day Heroes: In Defense of America'

http://www.ModernDayHeroes.com

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62 posted on 07/05/2004 3:57:47 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)

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63 posted on 07/05/2004 4:02:52 PM PDT by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))

64 posted on 07/05/2004 4:05:13 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (After 30+ years dealing with idiots, I still haven't earned the right to just shoot them.....)

Does anyone with experience in the Marine Corps have any idea what they're talking about here?

To be honest with you, Army vs. Marine basic training is not that much different. They are both hell and even suffering thru alzheimers and your old age you will never, ever forget the name of your senior NCO........ SFC Miguel Negrone! The shortest, meanest Puerto Rican prick you will ever meet! LOL!

WHACK! Helmit liner upside my head for not marching in step.......... ROFLMAO!!!

65 posted on 07/05/2004 4:13:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (After 30+ years dealing with idiots, I still haven't earned the right to just shoot them.....)

If you liked Making the Corps, you would enjoy Mouth Full of Rocks, detailing life in the French Foreign Legion.

Here's a comment on it...

Jennings was a 22-year-old delivery boy in London when, in 1984, he joined the legendary Legion. In an hypnotically bland narrative style, he recalls the training, the vicious routine beatings, the boozing and whoring during off-duty hours--and the scathing xenophobic views freely expressed by the various nationalities he soldiered with. Posted to the African Republic of Djibouti, Jennings was mercilessly bullied by his immediate superior, a Spanish corporal, and went over the hill.

Captured by bounty hunters while wandering across the desert, he found life in jail preferable to active duty in the 2nd Parachute Regiment. Given a second chance, he accompanied the regiment to France on field maneuvers and took advantage of another opportunity to desert. Successful this time, he was subsequently arrested on forgery charges and served a nine-month sentence. There's nothing self-serving about this memoir: again and again its author casually reveals himself to have been a liar, thief and sexual vulture. The absence of value judgment in his book plus a natural writing talent render it hard to put down. Jennings now works in publishing in London.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

66 posted on 07/05/2004 4:19:48 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)

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There's a reason why I went in the Air Force, one more reminder of why.

AIR FORCE! We're the smart ones...we send the officers out to fight.

67 posted on 07/05/2004 4:57:34 PM PDT by Valin (Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.)

68 posted on 07/05/2004 6:24:43 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (How about some Root Beer Snippy?)

To Freepers who pray, please put Kyle on your list!

Prayers on the way that the angels guard him and keep him safe.

69 posted on 07/05/2004 6:35:34 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod ('I went to Vietnam, yada yada yada, I want to be President...")

AIR FORCE! We're the smart ones...we send the officers out to fight.

LOL

70 posted on 07/06/2004 5:58:54 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)

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71 posted on 07/06/2004 9:00:51 PM PDT by F-117A

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