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Sorry Marine -- You're Too Old
Smoke Signal (Vanity) Times
| 10-3-01
| CHIEF negotiator
Posted on 10/03/2001 4:21:45 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
The nerve of that Marine Corps recruiter telling me I'll too old to re-up!
I said,
"But I'm a 2nd Force Recon Scout Sniper that can still pic-a-tic off a gnat's ass @ 1K meters, in a snow storm! We lay-in-wait, and over the last 30 years I've had a lot of experience. Snipers only need to be able to "snoop & poop" and carry a 50 caliber. We don't have to do 50 squat thrusts before lights out, or hump 20 miles in full pack before sunrise! Put me up against your best 20 year old. It takes a lot to get a snipers heartrate up, 'cause we've been trained to "relax" if you want "one shot -- one kill", and I invented "relax". I'll die my hair to cover the gray, get lippo-suction and a face-lift, if you can push this paperwork through, Sergeant."
He didn't go for it. Should I lie about my age?
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To: AppyPappy
Well...some of us have a problem with reality, the rest of us enjoy it. :-)
To: timydnuc
Happy Birthday Ranger!!! Think we should flood Bush?
To: beowolf
Cram it up your beo, wolfie.
To: timydnuc
"yep, a medic..corpsmen"
SALUTE
to one of the unsung heros
To: MissAmericanPie
We'll leave the army, navy, and air force behind, for your protection.
To: COB1,LadyX
"I might have to call on you for help."
If I need help in spelling, I'll be calling you,lol
True Story: I met with the Flotilla Commander for 3 hours today and after the initila "interview" and before the "paperwork" he gives you what the Coast Guard Auxiliary is and is not. At one point he said "The Auxiliary is NOT a yacht club." I started laughing and when he looked at me I said "I know a bunch of people that can tell you I don't even know how to spell yacht." LOL
To: timydnuc
"It's my birthday today."
Happy Birthday!
To: CHIEF negotiator
Throw in a few very angry Boy Scouts and it's a deal.
To: timydnuc
I salute you, sir.
I didn't get the eye injury on the battlefield.
I was between Korea and VietNam so I didn't see any combat.
I'm honored to associated with those of you that did.
I'd still like the chance to use the good eye looking through the sights of one of these:
89
posted on
10/03/2001 6:56:00 PM PDT
by
COB1
To: D Joyce
Yep! There's a difference between GUNG-HO and stupid.
To: COB1
Let's hear it for the M-1!!!!
To: MissAmericanPie
LOL!...............deal
To: Mr. Lucky
The sooner the brass to re-emphasizes the warrior tradition and restores a traditional uniform, ie: the one warn on VE Day, (OK, and does something about the girlie boot camp), the sooner we can all sleep better (and Osama can sleep eternally). They can't. A soldier like that might just shoot the shit out of Dan Rather if they crawled up on a beach to Dan's lights and cameras...
To: SauronOfMordor
I wish it worked that way.
To: Mr. Lucky
Maybe we'll see why you're named as you are. This isn't the time for that horseshit, old bean. Strongly suggest you put a cork in the Army vs. USMC drivel for the time being.
To: CHIEF negotiator
"Let's hear it for the M-1!!!!" THE most dependable shoulder weapon ever invented !!
96
posted on
10/03/2001 7:10:58 PM PDT
by
COB1
To: CHIEF negotiator
How old is the limit? I got out last year after 10 1/2 - Im only 29 and am considering going back in.
97
posted on
10/03/2001 7:14:37 PM PDT
by
SwankyC
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Thanks! No salute necessary, we did our jobs, and then some. We were no different from y'all, just the same. We just had a different job.
We didn't know it would effect us so much. That job, in combat, made me a doctor in later life. I didn't even want to be a doctor when I was in Nam. I'm very happy now, thank the Lord. The war that claimed lives also elevated the souls of the men that served there, and survived. The sheer courage that was needed to fight that war grew courage in the men that served. When I meet these men I am humbled by the responsibility that they bear on their shoulders daily. They are calm, and cool, and collected, but there is a slow boil in all of us. We are long to anger, but we short to meet out justice. We're the guys you just don't want to mess with. We are the guys that have a bad dream on occasion, we are the guys that live with that. We are a coiled spring, ready to go off. Now, they've given us a reason to "go off". You don't want to see what we are capable of. It's not nice, it's not even civilized.
If war is about breaking things and killing people (and it is), we are your best "hit man". We've been there, done that, and we're still trying to forgive ourselves for it. To do it again for the "right" cause would vindicate our souls. One more time before we die!
Note to the enemy: You have pissed off the wrong bunch of folks. Not just the American People, but a bunch of Nam Vets who are still ready to fight. May Allah have mercy on your miserable souls!
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posted on
10/03/2001 7:15:52 PM PDT
by
timydnuc
To: CHIEF negotiator
There is only one "p" in liposuction; why don't you use the extra one on the recruiter?
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