See? Too thin skinned to handle the facts.
I don't blame you for preferring an image over the facts.
Now to tell you the truth, I didn't much care for how the 82 ran some of their covoys either. But they also had one buck sergeant that gave one of the best briefings I'd seen to that point.
Sadly with that convoy, one of the Humvees shredded a tire and we found out the hard way that the crew didn't know how to change a tire. It took waaaaayyyyy too long, and this was the road between Ramadi and Falluja. Yep, Camp Blue Diamond, right on the river, walled in, and home to JDAM palace. Right across the street to JDAM palace there is a parking lot with a patch in the asphalt. That patch is from a VBIED that detonated on base just before xmas 2003 while the 82 had control of the base, only they called it Champion Main. I spent xmas there and have the menu as a souvegnir. Speaking of Ramadi, I have in my left pocket a challege coin from Ramadi given to me by a USMA friend.
Would you like to know that the floor to the DFAC there used to sag so much that we joked about it making people seasick while at the salad bar? Or how the Filipino food workers took as many mortars as about anyone there? Or about the gold seller that had his pinkey finger accidently shot off by an Iraqi policeman? He told it in a very funny way and was able to laugh about it himself once the stitches were out.
Real enough for you? Beleiveable enough for you? Easily verifiable? nope.
One fact is evident, and undeniable. You are blowing your own horn in a thread about 14 dead Marines.
That makes you a sh1tbird.