[2ndDivisionVet]

Jihadists beware! Here come the Marines! I think my late father (a retired Gunnery Sergeant) would have approved of this idea. There's an old saying: "Every Marine a rifleman" that the other services would do well to emulate, and now this.

[359Henrie]

Somebody link the song.

[mnehring]

F*** the rifle, F*** the nukes, our Marines can F*** you up with their pinkey finger!

[Old Sarge]

the other services would do well to emulate

We already get the training, thank you.

[Ken522]

There's an old saying: "Every Marine a rifleman"...

I always thought that was true until I met this guy that was a Marine during Desert Storm - he worked with secure telecomms on aircraft, and he hated firearms. I never figured out why ...

[Lurker]

Marines have learned skills such as how to rip muscle from bone, Shusko said.

Semper Fi.

L

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

The green belt is third in the series and shows Marines have learned skills such as how to rip muscle from bone, Shusko said.

Then after having a TV series and the highest belt possible they get to advertise for The Yellow Book. Hmmmmmmmmmmm...

[lowbridge]

First the Marine Corps made Chuck Norris an honorary Marine.

While Chuck Norris makes the Marines an honorary Chuck Norris.

[Billthedrill]

Er...Norris's specialty isn't Gung Fu, it's Chun Kuk Do. His first expertise was in Tang Su Do, one of the branches of Korean martial arts that later became Tae Kwon Do (the other was Mu Duk Kwan).

As far as the Marines receiving hand-to-hand combat training, it's news to me. Why didn't we think of it before?

[Phsstpok]

This brand of martial arts was affectionately referred to as “Semper Fu” when introduced to the Marines. From what I hear they like it.

[RichInOC]

1. [cue Carl Douglas-”Kung Fu Fighting”]

2. Does this mean we’re going to see a recruiting ad that parodies the old Hong Kong martial arts flicks?

[JoeSixPack1]

I don’t see a big change of training here. But what I do see is an aggravating display of politically correct warring.

Ordering a more detailed and extensive hand-to-hand combat training regimen means our young Marines have orders to dance more and more with enemy combatants instead of just killing them and moving on, or the USMC mission has changed so much we no longer have a clear path in any conflict.

Obviously winning points via a PC war is all that matters lately and is going to get a lot more of our boys killed.

Training is good. Having to play PC games with your enemy is bad, very bad.

Semper Fi

[alpha-8-25-02]

sun due bu du jitstso’

the art of the open hand.

okinawa 1976

[webstersII]

“shows Marines have learned skills such as how to rip muscle from bone”

I find this one a bit hard to believe.

[John Leland 1789]

There was an old Japanese man named Dan Fuji. Dan’s father was a Christian pastor in Japan, but Dan himself bolted and rebelled, and left home.

Dan went into organized crime in Japan and Hong Kong. He worked himself up through the ranks of those who were the assassins, henchmen; the thug ranks. Dan Fuji became one of the underworld’s most skilled Martial Arts experts.

Later, Dan was himself converted to Jesus Christ, and immediately left the underworld. We spent time with Dan on several occasions in the late 1980s. We discovered that Dan wrote a booklet called “Karate and Christ.”

“Karate and Christ” was written as a discouragement to Christians from getting involved in the Martial Arts; asking young people to resist the Martial Arts because of potential spiritual dangers in the Arts.

Dan said something to us, and I have read it in his booklet, and here it is: Many of the very best Martial Arts practitioners who ever lived were fighting on the beaches and in the trenches in the Pacific trying to defend against the American invasions of the islands during the Second World War. There were many long bloody bouts of hand-to-hand combat on those islands.

The U.S. Marines were using old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat tactics against skilled Martial Arts belts. Who won those hand-to-hand contests? Overall, the U.S. Marines defeated Japanese black belt Martial Artists on those beaches.

Dan went on to make the point that there is much more involved in war than the style of fighting.

[NormsRevenge]

Good news.. altho I remember some of the same stuff being part of our Boot Camp routine.

Besides pugil sticks, choking the snot out of one of your fellow recruits with a piece of garden hose were moments one doesn’t forget.

Glad to see they are continuing a tradition.

[Tuba Guy]

[familyop]

"The green belt is third in the series and shows Marines have learned skills such as how to rip muscle from bone, Shusko said."

LOL! ...spearhand thrust into abdomen, grab spine, and pull it through the front.

[Melas]

Hot Damn! The Corps is now even more hard core. I love it. I always wondered why the military didn’t take martial arts more seriously. I guess they finally came around.

[chesty_puller]

You and I spent our time running from hogs at Ft. Polk. What belt does that get?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Kung FOOEY~~~Go Back To 1966 "Hand To Hand Combat."... Sat Cong...Sat Moozzi...