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To: skull stomper
You won't catch me throwing rocks at the Navy...
Too many relatives (black sheep) and friends served/serving....in the Navy.

At the moment - we have an F/A 18 Hornet jocky on his way home aboard the USS Nimitz after flying over Iraq...
His last tour was attacking ground targets in Afghanistan..

Semper Fi
12 posted on 09/27/2003 4:55:43 PM PDT by river rat (War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
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To: river rat
I have four years Navy enlisted, a tour and a half in Viet Nam in 1966-68. I have a very soft spot for Marines, and will not tolerate disrespect for the Corps.

It is sometimes fun to tease Marines about their paychecks being signed by the Secretary of the Navy, though! The Navy and the Corps are like the fists of a boxer, the right fist and the left fist. Often the big right fist is the Corps, often it is the Navy. If it comes to battle at Taiwan, the Navy will pay a big price. This can happen any time.

An old Battle of Okinawa marine, who was always square with me, and was a friend (since deceased - rest in peace, Deano) told me he would not tolerate disrespect for the US Army. (I had been out of line.) The Army and the Corps worked as one on Okinawa.

(Old Deano would sometimes talk bad about the swabbies, as was his right, and I always came back that a lot more swabs than Marines were killed at Okinawa, which is the case. Old Deano would come back that that was because there are so many Navy guys you just can't help but find them an easy target! Not saying old Deano wouldn't have called anyone out who talked bad about the Fighting Navy.)

A man as good as I ever saw, Air Force pilot, flew MISTY FAC missions in Viet Nam, an amazingly difficult and dangerous job. The Air Force PJs, pararescuemen, have never recieved the honor due them. Only recently did Pitsenbarger, "Pits", get the Medal of Honor he deserved. The Freeper Foxhole recently did a good job telling Pits' story, I suggest visiting the thread to all.

So old military men tease each other some, but if someone who hasn't earned the right tries putting his oar in, and playing the fool, I do not tolerate it.

13 posted on 09/27/2003 6:34:30 PM PDT by Iris7 (Victory, always Victory, at any cost, though the beasts of Hell march against us!!!!!)
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To: river rat
At the moment - we have an F/A 18 Hornet jocky on his way home aboard the USS Nimitz after flying over Iraq...

Well given the source of my screen name

VFA-14 "Top Hatters" on the USS Nimitz

17 posted on 09/27/2003 10:08:24 PM PDT by tophat9000 (I guess it 's now Free Republicans vs Vichy Republicans currently under Democrat occupation)
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