[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Corps joins special ops ranks

Merritt Edson and Evans Carlson have got to be shaking their heads.

[grapeape]

What a joke. The Navy should have never had the seals and the UTD should have benn a Marine job also. Both of these units were assigned to the Navy because of politics.

[D. Brian Carter]

I have a buddy who was in 1st Recon and if ever there was a "special ops" group, this is it. Maybe they weren't given the official moniker as a special force, but these are the baddest of the bad. His training included stints with Seals and Rangers, and he couldn't tell me the majority of the things he knew or was involved in.

That's on top of the already rigorous (almost insane) boot camp and regimen made famous by the Corps. I must admit, I don't have the balls to be a Marine, one reason I opted for US Army instead.

[coloradan]

a topographic intelligence analyst

"We think it's a ridge, sir. But it might be a valley. We're working on it as we speak, sir."

[Knightsofswing]

I can not figure out what was put into the "scuttle butt" back at HQMC. By our very nature we were special operations. That is we do the jobs that no body else wanted. This thing about special ops. is that just political football. I am just shaking my head in confusion!!!

[SamAdams76]

My barracks was walking distance from Del Mar boat basin when I was stationed at Pendleton. Lot of fond memories from that time. I've got to get back there one of these years.

[macmedic892]

Thank God it's the Marines.

I was worried for a moment that it was the Corps of Engineers, all set to replicate the fine work they did for flood control in and around New Orleans!