Posted on 12/08/2005 3:52:44 AM PST by armydawg1
I remember when a solo Marine Air wing Staff Sergeant threw a squad of Army Ranger instructors out of their club at Camp Mosby.
Just like on that occasion, someone was drunk and cooler heads prevailed.
A.R.M.Y.
Aint Ready to be Marines Yet
By the way, the word Marines, when referring to a Marine, is always capitilized.
Semper Fidelis
The poster is simple, but it says it all. The center of it has an SF HALO team in free fall, descending through the clouds, with the caption, 'Sure, we have bad days, but not many'
You were watching TV.
That never really happened.
How about this ad:
Marines: First to fight.
Well, except for:
The American Revolutionary War
The Civil War
World War One
World War Two
Korea
Vietnam
Grenada
Panama
Desert Storm
OIF
.....
Yep, I knew that.
That ad campaign would have been in the wake of the famous hit song I never promised you a Rose Garden by Lynn Anderson.
ping
Army: Our Navy's bigger then the Coast Guard.
(chalk that one up to all to true factiods. The Army actually has more vessels then the Coast Guard)
Actually, contracted and Army operated ships (via MSC) make the Army's navy bigger than the Navy's navy ;)
"U.S. Army: Almost The Marines.
Think they'll buy it?"
Hey now, that is why I joined. I thought at the time that I wasn't tough enough to be a Marine, but I was tougher than a flyboy. If I could go back in time, I would have chosen differently.
My favorite has always been, "We get more done by 9 in the morning than most folks do all day!"
It’s about time. Any advertising campaign that goes on for too long tends to be ignored.
I was there, holding back the Staff Sergeant.
We were later kicked out when a bunch of us were caught playing around on their obstacle course's rope bridge, you know one rope above, one below spanning a creek fifty feet below. We were trying to knock each other off in the middle above the water.
I thought I heard a factoid somewhere that the Army operates more "boats" as opposed to "ships" than the Navy. Maybe it was in reference to the Coast Guard.
Most belong to The Corps of Engineers, I'm just full of factiods.
"By the way, the word Marines, when referring to a Marine, is always capitilized."
Except of course when used as a FReepname. In that case it is OK to abandon the practice. Ah, Marine irony at its best. ;-)
"Be all you can be" was my favorite. Here's a story about that slogan.
A Marine is laying in the hospital bed and a couple of docs are standing around.
One doc says to other, "I wonder what would happen if we took half his brain out?"
The other doc says, "I don't know. Let's find out."
So they wheel him into the operating room and take half his brain out. He wakes up in the morning and the doc says, "How we doing today?"
The Marine says "Buh...buh, buh.."
The doc says, "Well, that didn't work too good. Maybe we didn't take enough brain out. Let's wheel him back in and take out another quarter of his brain."
So they take out another quarter of his brain. He wakes up in the morning and the doc asks: "How we feeling today?"
The patient goes - "Buh! Buh, buh, buh..."
The doc says, "Well this just isn't working too good. Let's take the rest of his brain out." They wheel him into the operating room and remove the rest of his brain.
Next morning he wakes up and the doc asks, "How we feeling today?''
He sits straight up in bed and sings, "Be, be all that you can be..."
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