Posted on 06/18/2005 5:29:29 PM PDT by mdittmar
Actually, the establishment of the Marine Corps in 1775 was based on killing British Marines,but I get your point.
LOL...And they were as effective at it as they are today!!!
Semper Fi!!! Gysgt (ret) USMC
Thank you for your service,from the brother of a S/Sgt (ret) USMC.
Thanks for the ping!
They have a couple of quite good commando units: ICTF (Iraqi Counter Terrorism Force) and the 36th Commando, plus an Interior Ministry unit that I don't know the name of.
Well, very good---they are going to need them, and I hope that the "code of honor" that the United States Marines live under, is also their code of honor...
THAT is what makes that murder of those two Marines by the other Marine so awful... I heard Col. Hunt on Fox tonight say that it is just so hard to believe....this just doesn't happen to Marines...
Unless I missed something, the people you are referring to were not Marines, they were NY National Guard. I assume you are referring to the fragging of two Officers at the hands of a SSgt in Iraq a couple of weeks ago? I would be VERY supprised if something like that were to happen in the Corps.
Okay---you probably know better than I...
I wasn't really paying attention to their "service" at the time of the story on Fox...I guess I was just in shock by what they did...
Col. David Hunt was on and was asked about the prevalence of fragging in the Marines...he made the comment that (I am relying on 24 hours worth of brain cells that have dies here, so bear with me)..in Vietnam, he thought that there had been over 1000 incidents of "fragging" by the Army, but that he thought there has only been about 100 in the Marines...
He therefore feels that it is very rare, and when you add that this IS an all volunteer military, it is surprising that this guy would go to the lengths he did...
I was under the impression that the two that died were Marines, and the suspect was National Guard...
Like I said though, I might have gotten their branch of the service wrong---I was also reading the threads about the Iraqi Marines, and go confused about that...
My home state--CONFUSION, USA!!! lol
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