Posted on 03/09/2006 2:59:54 PM PST by SandRat
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (March 7, 2006) -- Corporal Jessica L. Curtis of San Francisco, a field radio operator, showcases her Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for actions in Iraq at the Truck Company, Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Divison, motor pool March 7. Curtis participated in more then 230 convoys in Iraq - all of which never lost communications due to her knowhow, according to her fellow Marines. Photo by: Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker
Motor T Marine makes 230 T-runs.
They don.t let them drive do they?
Wow, running the gauntlet 230 times.
She should be proud...what she did "at work" mattered to Iraqis, her fellow marines, and all of us.
Her commendations are well deserved.
First, I like that " No BS" look she has.Says, "Y'all don't want to start nothing with ME!"
Second. an example of what the attraction the Marines Corps has:
You EARN PRIDE!
Double thumps up to a job well done.
Doogle
It is impossible to imagine what the Marine Corp would be without females.
It is impossible to imagine what the Marine Corp would be without females.
No one has to join the Marine Corps.
Now, how many men are doing what she did and not getting any recognition?
Gee, how did they win all those battles over 2 hundred years without females!
Women of Bravo Company Take a Back Seat to No One
Giggitygiggity Gooo!
I have the same Medal she was awarded, and I got mine for doing the impossible in a time frame that no one believed could be done (removed and replaced two H-1 Main transmissions in the desert of 29 Palms without the normal tools and equipement in less then two days, when we were told it would take two weeks to get what we needed to do the job delivered to us).
I Think that anyone The Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Secretary of the Navy has decided earned A Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal deserves it, of course I might be a tad biased since I have one, but The facts are the facts what she has done is being recognized from the top down,and if she didn't deserve, she wouldn't have been awarded it.
It's just all propaganda to show a few female US Senators that the USMC has it's mind right.
I love reading their stories.
"Gee, how did they win all those battles over 2 hundred years without females!"
Whenever female GIs are mentioned by politicians, politicized officers etc., the most common description is that they do as good or better than the warriors. As good as or better can only mean slightly better, so I have to assume the Marine Corps would be slightly better if it became an all female Marine Corps, zero men. Not one male in the entire Corps, at the very least the Marine Corp would be equal to what it is now or in the past, experts tell me this, even people on this forum believe this.
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