Posted on 09/30/2001 2:28:55 PM PDT by kattracks
Those words were enough to give a Gyrene some nightmares!
In the middle of the Mojave Desert with nothing but sand and sun.
The tanks looked awfully inviting to ride on until you toasted your butt a few times.
I wonder if they still stay in those quonset huts?
Sober up.
The Image I posted was of two USMC Cobras
Who said they weren't?
The same type as went in to Bosnia to rescue Capt. O'Grady along with a CH-53 Sea Stallion
Are you trying to claim only the USMC can do this? Ever hear of US Army "Bright Light Teams" or of "US Air Force Air Commandoes"?
BTW,two US military units that NEVER get the recogonition they deserve are the Air Commandoes and the US Coast Guard rescue swimmers. While we US Army and USMC vets are batting the ball back and forth,we should both take a few minutes out to recogonize the courage and skill of these people. If WE won't do it,you can bet your butt nobody else will.
I didn't know that, Tonkin.
I got out of boot in '58 and I heard before I left Pendleton in '62 that they had outlawed duckwalking because of the damage to the knees.
Well,you have to take your fun where you find it anymore.
wonder what the zoomies call us when we're out of earshot.
Who cares? They have DAMN good food,and don't even get mad when they catch us stealing it. In fact,I would like to go on record right here to advise the young Marines and soldiers to either buy or steal a USAF fatigue uniform right now so they will already have it when they deploy. Anytime you are deployed and want some GOOD food in a AC setting with real tables,all you have to do is put in on and wander into a AF messhall. The big things you have to watch out for is to not act shocked and say "HUH?" when they ask you what main course you would like,and to try and remember to not salute or look them in the eye. Either seems to scare them,and it lets them know you are a imposter.
Where can a lean green fighting machine get any respect around here huh?
It sure ain't easy,is it? Oh well,to quote Heinlein,"To the everlasting glory of the infantry!"
Why? A infantry assault is a infantry assault,regardless of if it comes from a helicopter or a ship. This is the USMC's reason to exist,and nobody does it better than them.
What *I* can't figure out is why are all these people talking about using SEALS. Talk about "a duck out of water"! They can't do anything in Afhaginistan that Force Recon or the US Army Rangers and/or SF isn't better qualified or trained to do.
You sound like a person who thinks the military doesn't pay their share of income taxes. Get real. This argument is as old as the hills for someone who wants to feel superior to the military. It doesn't work. You are inferior to them.
You are a wise man sneakypete.
Anytime you are deployed and want some GOOD food in a AC setting with real tables,all you have to do is put in on and wander into a AF messhall.
Please tell me you have or know someone that's done this.
The big things you have to watch out for is to not act shocked and say "HUH?" when they ask you what main course you would like,
Got a good laugh out of that one. "Huh?" was about my reaction when I first dined in an AF mess at Kadena Air Base. Little tables that seat 4, cloth table cloths and napkins, real coffee cups and plates, and man the grub was good.
Dittos your sentiments of the zoomie warriors and CG swimmers. I don't know what units flew the Jolly Greens with the jungle penetrators, but those guys were packing solid brass.
Please don't hold it against me. I was a innocent young soldier,and didn't know any better. Besides,if they don't have any better sense than to leave their fatigue shirts hanging on a line unguarded,they didn't deserve to have them.
Got a good laugh out of that one. "Huh?" was about my reaction when I first dined in an AF mess at Kadena Air Base. Little tables that seat 4, cloth table cloths and napkins, real coffee cups and plates, and man the grub was good.
I first learned this when I was deployed to the Domicican Republic in 64. The AF was there one month,and already had a ac mess-hall built and was serving "Class A" rations. The army was still heating "C ration" cans in boiling water after being there for 6 months.
I don't know what units flew the Jolly Greens with the jungle penetrators, but those guys were packing solid brass.
That would be those unsung gentlemen from the United States Air Force "Air Commandoes",and you're right about them having brass ones. They even went in on a mountaintop in Laos one night to rescue one of our teams where every single man was wounded,and they were unable to move anymore. This was around midnight,and they had to light up the damn landing lights to see what they were doing. All the while being shot at from the ground. Granted,they had a LOT of tac air and flares to help,but STILL......!
If asked I would be honored to serve. It is wrong to keep men out of this just because they are no longer young.
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