Posted on 05/20/2010 5:52:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Johnson was just about the worst SecDef post-WWII. A pure political appointee by Truman, and he was out shortly after the Korean War started.
Hey, the source is an Obama Admin official. What else would we expect from such a weasel?
“One unnamed Obama administration official was quoted by the Washington Post as saying, “We have better operational coherence with virtually all of our NATO allies than we have with the U.S. Marine Corps.”
That’s because the US Marines fight FOR America not against it!
OOOH RAH!
I suspect the USMC may be an embarrassment to the Administration simply because the Corps gets the job done.....in comparison to the Stateless Department.
When a Marine kills the only thing he feels is the recoil of his rifle.
Uh Rah
VDH nails it again.
I wish he would have mentioned that the Corps wrote the first counter-insurgency manual in the 30’s.
Concerning Chosin Reservoir in Korea, the battle there was really, really bloody and the Marines got cut up bad, but they were still there and needed some help withdrawing from the scene ~ plenty of material on the net can give you an idea of what went on there.
Some really bright guy somewhere in Department of Defense decided that the unit to send to "hold the door open" and serve as a "rear guard" for that withdrawal was the 1/15 Infantry ~ Audy Murphy's unit ~ in terms of military awards and battle streamers quite arguably the BEST Army Infantry there's ever been.
Whether they were really up to the task at the Frozen Chosen was beside the point ~ the Marines deserved the best and they got the best and the 1/15 accepted the honor.
BTW, our top supply sergeant at Harvey Barracks had been in the 1/15 Infantry "way back when" that happened.
The current fascist regime doesn’t like the Corps because they can’t control them to the point that they will do their bidding. They take the oath to protect and defend the Constitution seriously and that is something the democrat party cannot abide in their program to set up a socialist dictatorship. Semper Fi!
FUBO
This quote kind of gets to the heart of the issue:
“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”
- Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the assault on Grenada, 1983
“With the Old Breed” is a great book. The series seems to take mostly from that book and “Helmet For My Pillow” by Bob Leckie. One of my favorite lines in the movie came in the last episode.
The character of Bob Leckie was sitting at the dinner table with his family. There was the usual chit chat around the table and they were talking about TVs and Leckie seemed to be really knowledgable on the subject and said he was saving up to get one. Other family members were poo poohing the TV and complaining about the strikes going on and the bad economy and asking rhetorically “Is this what our country fought for? To go on strike?”. Leckie says, you know what I fought for? There was this silence as everyone wanted to hear what he had to say, thinking it would be profound. He said, television....
whoops!! I meant to say O.P. Smith. Not Julian Smith, a WWII Marine General.
Exactly
Basic Military Rules
Marine Corps Rules:
01. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
02. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.
03. Have a plan.
04. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won’t work.
05. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
06. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start
with a ‘4.’
07. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is
expensive.
08. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend (Lateral &
diagonal preferred.)
09. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or
tactics. They will only remember who lived.
13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention to
shoot.
Navy SEAL’s Rules:
1. Look very cool in sunglasses.
2. Kill every living thing within view.
3. Adjust Speedo.
4. Check hair in mirror.
US Army Rangers Rules:
1. Walk in 50 miles wearing 75 pound rucksack while starving.
2. Locate individuals requiring killing.
3. Request permission via radio from ‘Higher’ to perform killing.
4. Curse bitterly when mission is aborted.
5. Walk out 50 miles wearing a 75 pound rucksack while starving.
US Army Rules:
1. Curse bitterly when receiving operational order.
2. Make sure there is extra ammo and extra coffee.
3. Curse bitterly.
4. Curse bitterly.
5. Do not listen to 2nd LTs; it can get you killed.
6. Curse bitterly.
US Air Force Rules:
1. Have a cocktail.
2. Adjust temperature on air-conditioner.
3. See what’s on HBO.
4. Ask ‘What is a gunfight?’
5. Request more funding from Congress with a ‘killer’ Power Point
presentation.
6. Wine & dine ‘’key’ Congressmen, invite DOD & defense industry executives.
7. Receive funding, set up new command and assemble assets.
8. Declare the assets ‘strategic’ and never deploy them operationally.
9. Hurry to make 13:45 tee-time.
10. Make sure the base is as far as possible from the conflict but close
enough to have tax exemption.
US Navy Rules:
1. Go to Sea.
2. Drink Coffee.
3. Deploy Marines
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