Posted on 11/24/2010 4:31:06 AM PST by marktwain
Don Alejo seems to have been a man for all seasons; Thank God there are still a few around like him. I suspect he’s relaxing at a very nice ranch right now and the bullying thugs and thieves that tried to steal his land and got a nice surprise instead are in a very hot and uncomfortable place.
Hell of a guy. R.I.P. hero.
I suspect if Mexico had not disarmed its citizens, they would not have the cartel thug problems that are destroying their country.
More Mexicans like this and they would have a country they could live in ,without sending their dregs to ours.
Of course in the end the criminals will seize the property.
Mexican authorities have two of them alive, I hope they are smart enough to waterboard them and get all the information out of them needed to round up the rest of the thugs, but of course that is wishful thinking.
More than likely those two are already out having dinner with their friends.
The solo title “Marine” (other countries had the word “marine” as PART of the description of their sea going soldiers) was first given to elite amphibious infantry men of the Royal Navy and then to the USN’s “Marine Corps.”
Not dissing the RN but only ONE outfit has the hard won heritage to call themselves “Marines.”
The largest special forces on earth.
If Mexico could find 10,000 Don Alejo’s it would be a country again.
More here
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/11/23/the-dead-of-the-night/
Comments are usually pretty interesting
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There is also a lesson in this story for those wise enough to glean it.
That was the purpose of disarming the citizenry.
Marines are not Special Forces. They neither have, nor recruit, nor train nor have the institutional temperament. They are and have been what is called ‘assault troops’.
MT, thanks for the link to Borderland Beat, great site for this type of information.
Rangers,SEALS,Green Berets etc— all special forces.
The good Mexicans remaining in that country have a martyr to rally around and take back their country from the corrupt politicians. Will they do it?
Rangers too are assault troops. Not SF.
Where do the Marines go to get their training, and their weapons, long after the Army develops,fields, maintains and worked outs tactics and implementation? More often then not, the Army.
So, how does that make a smaller, behind the curve equipped, issued, experienced force superior? I know the Marines are propagandized to believe so, but that doesn’t make it so.
Units vs the whole of the Marines, vis a vis, esprit? 10th, 82nd, 101st...
There’s not a whole lot of benefit to Army vs. Marine Corps spats, but the Army doesn’t have an equivalnet to a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Gladiator “Don Alejo” ... We salute you !
Gladiator “Don Alejo” ... We salute you !
Don Alejo's story reminded me of the last line in Solzhenitsyn's story "Matryona's House."
"We had all lived cheek by jowl with Matryona and not understood that she was that upright person without whom, according to the proverb, no village can endure. Nor any city. Nor our whole land."
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