Marines do it their own way

MSNBC ^ | 9/30/01 | Sue Lackey

[CHIEF negotiator]

I'm trying to figure...what Marine would want to steal one of them sissy berets?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Now, dear swabbie, you KNOW it is only professional courtesy,
perpetuating your foul up so you will not be embarrassed!!

Uh, well it was to much time in rough seas that caused me to foul up, LOL
2 different typhoons on a destoyer is NO fun
and training off Cape Hatteras (graveyard of the Atlantic) scramled my brain a little,LOL
PS Rough seas also meant no hot chow, the cooks couldn't cook anything, so we ate lots of sandwiches instead

[CHIEF negotiator]

Silent Souls
Leave .308 Holes

Semper Fi

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

That's because the ones who tried never lived to tell the story...

[jo6pac]

Thanks. Great info.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Qwid-pro-quo.......Thow dost speak the language of the true "Ghost"

[oldngray]

Very interesting post here. If I'm not the eldest Retired Marine on FR I'm pretty close to being so. That doesn't make me any more special than the Marines I witnessed graduating from Boot Camp at Parris Island less than 30 days ago. Might give me a few more sea stories to tell but that's about it.

Now, about the Army's Riverines ... I salute you!

The Marine Rifle Company I was with in Vietnam (2nd tour, 1968) had set up a perimeter defense, truly in the boonies in the waste country north of PhuBai. We were part of a Reinforced Marine Battalion that had been dropped into an area for search and destroy mission. The Battalion was well scattered, no other friendlies within 7 clicks. Just after nightfall one of our perimeter patrols got ambushed. Six Marines, 6 casualties. Try as we might we couldn't get to those guys. Dark as pitch, incoming rockets, mortars, .50cal machine gun fire, you name it, we were getting it. Med evac choppers from an LPH off the coast were orbiting but couldn't get close.

Up on the radio freq comes a voice from nowhere asking for particulars. He was a Riverine in an airboat. He'd been listening to our comm with the patrol leader. After proper ID we gave him the coordinates. We kept the NVA pinned down and he got our troops out. Didn't find out where he took them or where they went for more than 30 days. They ended up in a hospital on Guam.

Took a lot of guts for him to do what he did. We'll never know his name nor ever get to thank him personally. But on behalf of a number of Marines who might otherwise have come home in body bags, since we don't know him, I salute you.

Yes, we are a special breed and I could tell Illbay a few stories of how the rivalry of the services played its part during WWII ... and I mean during the war, not after. It's always been that way. I can appreciate his attempt to try to get his point across but unless he's "been there, done that" he's out of his element ... on this thread at least.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"So i guess no skiing, eh? :-)"

LOL, hell we were lucky to get "swim call" every once in a blue moon.
And when we did I got to stand shark watch with a M-1
Believe it or not we never had any M-14's or M-16's on board.
50 cal 30 cal machine guns, Thompson sub machine guns (my favorite),
BAR's, M1-carbines, grenade launchers, shot guns, 45's, 22's (pistols) but no M-14 or M-16
and being in charge of the armory also I cleaned all those weapons at least a "zillion" times,lol

[CHIEF negotiator]

WHITEFEATHER....

Shall he rest in peace

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I have only one question, fellow "old Viet-Vet" Since when did Charlie use 50's as ordinance, or did I miss something?

[CHIEF negotiator]

You're thread is up to 250 posts. Will you start Phase II?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

And so will "Base-Eagle". Something the American public never mourned......

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

bttt

[sneakypete]

We all looked really, really young.

I found and posted a photo of me in VN on a thread here a while back. I KNOW that was me,but I swear there is no way in hell I would sell that little kid a beer! I was 21-22,and didn't look old enough to drive.

[jo6pac]

"Sissy" berets?

Guys that wore them spilled the same color blood as the guys that wore a pisscutter with an eagle, globe and anchor.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Please refer to #244

[jo6pac]

Yeah. Woof, woof, woof.

[CHIEF negotiator]

You'll never catch a Marine wearing a green, brown, black beret. BTW, have they decided on the correct "hue" yet?

[Scuttlebutt]

"You're thread is up to 250 posts. Will you start Phase II?"

Dammit CHIEF, we don't need no steenkin' Thread II. I was kinda hoping that this one would get 1200+ replies and then we could ping Arthur.

[oldngray]

Whenever they captured one, or anything else they could get. Believe me, they used them.