Posted on 04/02/2015 9:32:50 AM PDT by servo1969
We made the final decision yesterday. He was waiting for my blessing. I gave it. His mother and I know the risk so does he.
Thanks for the encouragement. I talked to a very good friend of mine that served and has two sons currently in the Marines. One of his sons is a top shelf maybe even the number one Cobra pilot. Both gave the same advice.
I agree with you, and I applaud your sons commitment to our nation. I am a Master Gunnery Sergeant with almost 28 years in service. I have been deeply troubled at our current course, demoralized even. I am of the mind that if men like me, and your son let circumstances chase us from service abdicating our duty to the reprobates of this land, the cause of freedom will be lost. If my young Marines don’t have men of courage, faith and conviction to guide and mentor them....who will fill the void? I would appeal to all patriots to do their duty, to vote and to serve. Let’s not cede the future to the debased and debauched. Semper Fi!
We need all the good men we can get and your son meets that high standard.
Please tell him a Vietnam combat vet thanks him and he is appreciated by more people than he realizes.
Thank you, Gunny.
He’s pure evil and repulsive. I can’t believe that more people haven’t caught on. It’s disgusting.
So what would your brilliant solution for winning the war have been?
Couldn’t flank them, as the trenches ran from the Alps to the sea. Attacks, prior to the development of tanks and infiltration storm tactics, were doomed, but sitting in trenches losing men regularly was not politically acceptable.
Any general who told his civilian masters that an effective offensive was impossible would have just been fired as defeatist. Would have been the right thing to do anyway, but the government would have just put in new generals who would attack.
So, I ask again, what would you have done differently? Even with the immense advantage of hindsight.
I will agree that the WWI French, much like the Japanese of WWII, though not to the same extreme, had an unwarranted faith in the ability of morale and elan to dominate against superior firepower.
These criticisms remind me of the criticisms of Grant during our Civil War. Logical explanations of a better approach, given his resources, are seldom provided.
Rather than the frontal attacks that killed so many, I would have advocated the trench-forward warfare that Grant employed against St Petersburg and Richmond.
Given the control of WW I by the politicians, though....all they wanted to hear about was attacks that would win right away.
Amen, Gunny.
Till the campaign ended at Petersburg, Grant spent months trying to maneuver around Lee’s flank. At Petersburg, he settled into a siege very much like the trench warfare of WWI. Though with no machine guns or poison gas, and with much slower and smaller artillery.
Yet Grant never broke the lines until attrition had worn Lee’s men too thin. And then it was to a considerable extent because he got onto Lee’s flank, an option that just wasn’t available to the WWI generals.
I’m unclear what specific tactics you are referencing. The Crater was obviously a great feat of arms turned into a debacle by appallingly poor execution. But with that exception I’m unaware of any really innovative tactics used during the Siege of Petersburg.
BTW, the real problem the frontal attacks had is that even if they broke through the front line, the attackers could not bring up reinforcements as rapidly as the defenders. So they inevitably got outnumbered and pushed back. Or cut off, if they got too far ahead.
Mr Whittle appears of an age to have been a healthy, relatively young man when the country was attacked on 9/11. What was his MOS?
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A lot of people were taken in by his seeming hopefulness when he first came on the scene. At the time, he was very good at hiding his rotten soul but then, Satan and his minions are very good at that, aren’t they?
It is not a conspiracy theory to think that the MSM did everything they could to give him cover. They did everything they could to demonize his opposition and were very successful at it.
That is why, even today, with all the evidence of his hatred of our beloved country, there are those who do not see him for what he is. Rather, they blame the opposition for his failure to lead this country.
Might want to wait and see who the next president is. If your son is a Christian, heterosexual things will be difficult. If he is also White he will probably be cleaning the gay showers his entire enlistment.
What was his MOS?
I don’t know if he was in the military. Why do you wonder?
Thanks we have considered this. He is a solid Christian young man. He can handle most anything that he is faced with. Whatever his lot it will be used for good. We believe Romans chapter 8.
Mr Whittle appears of an age to have been a healthy, relatively young man when the country was attacked on 9/11. What was his MOS?
I looked it up. He was 42 in 2001. He wanted to be an Air Force Pilot but his eyes didn’t allow it.
Well said. Evil is rampant and has hold of many people.
My brilliant solution would have been what they eventually started to use - more effective use of the “rolling barrage” tactic.
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