Posted on 03/27/2010 12:59:55 PM PDT by worst-case scenario
It's been said that the military is always preparing for war. That is true. We prepare for combat every day. We ran 5 miles today to the rifle range and shot nearly 200 rounds a piece at targets and then ran back. However, we also pray for peace. I would love one day to be completely unnecessary. But alas, I am a realist, and I know that day will never come.
The headlines of the last week have reminded me more of glimpsing at the S2 Daily Briefing Sheets while in theater or the Al-Jazeera than the NY Times or the Washington Post. Think about that for a moment, let it sink in.
Before I get into the main premise of this article - I need to make two statements here.
First and foremost , when it comes to the back and forth of who did what to whom and why - I don't give a @!$%#. It doesn't change the action. In life we're judged by our actions, nothing more, nothing less. One of the greatest things of the military is when it comes to an enemy, the politics behind the situation - don't matter in accomplishing that mission. For the military , life is simple in that regard.
Secondly, Regardless of your political ideology, you've earned the right as US Citizens to say your piece - no matter how wrong it may be. That is your right, and I will give my life to protect it.
(Excerpt) Read more at christopher-calbat.newsvine.com ...
What’s your solution the creeping coup happening right now as we speak?
Thank you.
Just in case you missed my question:
What’s your solution the creeping coup happening right now as we speak?
Thank you.
ANd I haven’t read Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. I don’t think my uneducated brain could handle it. I’ve read enough leftist twaddle from politicians here to know what stinks, though.
My husband was raised in a communist Eastern Bloc country and his father also was incarcerated in a German work camp making munitions that were used for killing his countrymen and others, not as horrible as your father. I have heard stories.
I think his outlook is a small minority amongst those who are actually in theatre
I’m with you. The thing that should REALLY worry the Marxists and the dim bulbs they PAY to do their bidding is the fact that EVERY PATRIOT’S line in the sand started at the “inauguration” of this fraud. We researched him early on during the campaign.
I may not be a “Marine”...BUT, I am unemployed, thanks to the “Won”... and, soon to be even more frightening to liberals and Marxists, as I will have to give up smoking and satellite and sell stuff that I love to make ends meet. Hey, you f**king fake “Marine”....there’s something very dangerous about an ex-smoker. Especially one who opted for a gun over a diamond ring for a birthday gift. Yeah....we’re out here....by the millions. Don’t sh*t on our Constitution.
“ANd I haven’t read Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc.”
You haven’t missed a whole lot. Most of it it pretty primitive, simplistic crap - pseudo-science fueled by envy and resentment. Karl Marx et al are to economics what the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is to spirituality.
Mao on the other hand is a great read, with respect to irregular warfare and the utter destruction of an urban based conventional war machine. One of his treatises on guerrilla warfare was published by Presidio Press, and used to be required reading for USMC officers.
Some of it can be found here, courtesy of the Communists.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/military-writings/index.htm
(Mao also emphasizes keeping in supply by plundering your enemies’ resources)
Not this Marine, not even in boot camp long ago.
Ok. Believe what you wish.
Probably trying to convince all those evil teapartiers that resistance is futile; it's only a matter or time before opponents of The Won have B-52s running strings of 500-pounders through their neighborhoods.
Creeping coup is exactly correct. It’s the Hugo Chavez playbook.
But this ain’t Venezuela, and our military take an oath to defend the Constitution, not the Patria, Der Lider, or the regime.
493 is exactly correct IMHO.
Very, very small. This Marine reservist SGT C—t is first and foremost a lefty. His goal is defending Obamism, clearly. This puts him against 95% who do understand their oath.
That’s when my BS alarm went off. I was a Navy SEAL (BUD/S class 105, 1979) and we worked with plenty of Marines. The only ones who MIGHT have done that were Force Recon....and they were all right of Attilla.
Can you explain the process by which your dad was transferred between those 4 concentration camps in different countries? Give us the years and months etc. His home town, deportation dates, etc. I’m quite sure he didn’t forget.
I am a bit of a student of WW2, and pardon me if my BS alarm is ringing.
I checked his bib number at the San Diego Mud Run and his name really is Christopher Calbat. Hope he gets a nice little visit from his commanding officers. What a dumb @ss.
Even in the border states during CW1, it was rare for the women and children left behind to be murdered.
It was SOP in Bosnia, 100% SOP. An American CW2 would be Bosnia X 100.
Read “Seasons In Hell” about Bosnia. It’s in your library.
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