The Color Green

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The Color green

Let me set things straight, between you and me,
Things for some reason, you cannot see.

You point your finger and you stare, you call me names that I do not like to hear.
Let me tell you what I go through, doing my job just to protect you.

I took an oath to defend my land, to stand and fight to the very last man.
First I'm a Marine, then an air-dale; I load my ordnance to protect your tail.

I never looked at another man and shot him dead, but my bombs can sure turn the ground red.
Yes I work behind the lines, that the MOS that I chose to be mine.

You may say, your lean and mean, but damn it, I also wear the color green.

The enemy is in the front and in your rear, then that familiar sound of a Marine aircraft you do hear.
When you get pinned down and cannot fight, that low flying Marine aircraft is a lovely sight.

Flying fifteen feet off the ground, hitting their mark with every round.
The most beautiful sight you have ever seen, an Air Wing Pilot who also wears green.

GySgt Marvin Bush USMC Retired

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Air Wing Warriors. We Are Marines too.

From the air fields of Chu Lai and Da Nang,
We worked our ass off, in the heat and the rain.

Humping bombs on the wings of our Attack planes,
While our brothers Grunts are holding their terrain.

We get the word to launch our flight; it’s dark, hot and late at night.
Our brother’s call, they are pinned down, got these gooks all around.

The pilots run to their planes, to answer that mission call again.
They taxi out to the end of the strip, waiting to go on this important trip.

Their planes rises off the end of the runway, we watch and pray,
That they will return to fly another day.

Then it back to loading another flight, we will do this all through the night.
100, 500, 1000 lbs bombs, is on the list for the next bombing run.
8 planes will be loaded, before our job is done.

When our aircraft returns, we put in the safety pins; send them to the flight line to be loaded again.
Rockets and gun pods are on this list, with this load our Pilots will never miss.

So brother Grunts just set back, enjoy the air show when the Air Wing attack.


GySgt Marvin Bush USMC Retired