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"I don't think we really, truly understand the scope of what we are facing."

There are many things that you don't understand illbay, with the inter-service rivalry being just one. For a panty-waist like yourself to be calling Smedleybutter an "adolescent moron" is laughable. Why don't you tell us about your service record, illbay?

There are many things that you don't understand illbay, with the inter-service rivalry being just one.

I understand inter-service rivalry perfectly well. Go back and read my post (let me know if you need help with the long words).

What I said was, there is a time and a place for everything, and NOW is not the time, and the MIDDLE EAST is not the place, for a stupid-*ss teenage p*ssing contest.

The Marines have been America's Special Forces since the begining of this nation.
Let the Naysayers break out the History books, and read of the Commando raid on Bermuda By the first Commandant.
The attack was so swift and overwhelming that the British literly got caught with their pants down around their ankles
And the Marines have been doing it ever since, Lt Presley O'Bannon Marched his Marines through 600 miles of the Sahara to capture a fort on "the shores of Tripoli",
The reason he did so President Jefferson sent him to stop the Barbary Pirates from terrorising American shipping.
Before the Green Berets, Delta, and the Seals, there were the Marine Raiders, which was disbanded because it couldn't do anymore than the average marine unit.
I known I am going to catch flak for that one but the reason does not have a special forces unit in it, is that by their actions Marines have always proven that they are America's premier go any where do anything force.
I'm rambling instead of reading again, Semper Fi out