Posted on 07/05/2004 8:01:43 AM PDT by alfa6
Stripped naked in the office shower room, I was appalled.
I had been jogging every other day for several months. Still, when I looked in the mirror, the man I saw was fat and soft, almost unbelievably so. I wondered:
Was there a United States Marine in there somewhere? * * *
The recruiter was ignoring my calls....
Apparently the Marine Corps wasn't dying to sign up a 34-year-old reporter from Washington, D.C. Ordinarily, the Marines recruit young men and women 17 to 27, and college graduates as old as 29. I was far past the regular cutoffs.
Diligence produced a meeting with an officer in charge of recruiting in the Baltimore-Washington region. The major was intrigued. He had me take the Marine Corps physical fitness test.
I ran the three-mile track in 21:10, did six pull-ups and 84 crunches. A perfect score was 18 minutes, 20 pull-ups and 100 crunches. My run time was decent. The recruiters took up my cause.
(Excerpt) Read more at eveningsun.com ...
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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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Bump!
Just Wow........
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!!!
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.
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.
Nice article
Prayers on the way that the angels guard him and keep him safe.
Thanks Bump!
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