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Marines end longstanding ban on umbrellas
NY Post ^
| 6 Nov 2019
| Louis Casiano
Posted on 11/07/2019 9:36:38 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: Pollster1
Absolutely, it was it was horribly disrespectful to the Marines and the armed forces as well. Obama showed he was totally unworthy of the office.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:05:27 AM PST
by
Crucial
To: Reily
Have they issued regulation for male purses yet?
That's European carry-all!!! :)
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:07:45 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Chainmail
Whats next? Sunglasses in formation?Gunny Highway would not approve!
SF ...
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:12:03 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Reily
Have they issued regulation for male purses yet?
*************
Um... the official designation is murse. Not purse.
Semper Why
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:15:30 AM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: oh8eleven
I recall several British Commanders carrying umbrellas. These were fighting commanders too.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:15:48 AM PST
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: oh8eleven
Make sure owebama carries his own.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:20:35 AM PST
by
Rannug
(When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.l)
To: yarddog
That makes it worse. Brits are homo by default. Only a few manage to struggle and overcome it.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:22:35 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: oh8eleven
No word on whether lipstick and eye shadow are authorized for the troops.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:32:46 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: KobraKai
I’d like it better if it came with a bayonet tip.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:36:19 AM PST
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: oh8eleven
Nothing I loved more than getting caught in the rain in my Alphas with
that damn piss-cutter on. Of course now the umbrella will be part of
standard issue and have be ironed for inspection.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:37:38 AM PST
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: proxy_user
To: stylin19a
The KGB used umbrellas...
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:45:28 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: NFHale
“So all in all, Im pretty sure what that young Marine was thinking as he stood there holding the umbrella; its a small price to pay for the chance to present a clear and present distinction between himself, and the POS at the podium.”
My choir performed at a memorial dedication where the guest of honor was Robert H. Dunlap, a MOH awarded from actions at Iwo Jima. It was misty and a Marine stood on either side of his wheelchair holding an umbrella. Afterwards, one of the younger choir members commented that he wondered how they got stuck doing that. Luckily one of my fellow baritones was an old Jarhead, and he did an excellent job of explaining that this was probably one of the proudest moments of the young Marines lives.
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:46:27 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
To: I want the USA back
Soon ... they already allow face painting ...
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posted on
11/07/2019 10:49:05 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: major_gaff
have be ironed for inspection
Keep up the changes and pretty soon they'll change the name of a Junk on the Bunk to Niceties on the Bunk. Oy ...
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posted on
11/07/2019 11:01:51 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
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posted on
11/07/2019 11:22:50 AM PST
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
To: Grimmy
My late father, WWII Iwo Marine, one night we were watching the news and it shows a bunch of marines coming back from I think Iraq II deployment. They’re going through the airport waiting area. One of the marines is welcomed by another guy in civies (Physically he looked pretty squared away - so he was probably a marine too!). An what do you think happened that marine planted a big “Welcome-Home-From-WWII-style” wet long & I am sure plenty of tongue kiss on the guy in civies. My dad looked at me in horror like he had somehow walked through the wrong door that day and had ended up in the Twilight Zone.
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posted on
11/07/2019 11:23:28 AM PST
by
Reily
To: Reily
And women Lieutenants in the infantry. The pansy leaders advanced under Obama, such as Mattis, were happy to let the corps slide down the memory hole.
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posted on
11/07/2019 11:26:11 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: oh8eleven
USMC umbrella
To: oh8eleven
The Army had a similar policy when I was in, we could not carry an umbrella at all while in uniform.
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