greensideout
02-17-05, 08:39 PM
Is it about hot beer, living in a hell hole, being in a chest deep water filled fighting trench with who knows what floating by as the VC attack, cold chow, little sleep and away from home?
I don't think that is what it's about.
I can only speak from my own experience.
Disappointing moments:
Like the time I reported in from leave on Christmas Eve. The Marine clerk looked at me and said, "Why are you here, no one else is?"
Or the time that I was sent to Mountian Warfare/Cold Weather Survival School with a very serious ear infection to live in a self dug snow hole and all that went with the training.
Sometimes we wonder about a Marines attitude. It may have been shaped by an experience much different then ours and I think it is prehaps, what the Marine Corps CAN control verses what we experienced in our duty.
The way I have always seen it is that I joined the Marine Corps---the Marine Corps didn't join me!
Semper Fi
I don't think that is what it's about.
I can only speak from my own experience.
Disappointing moments:
Like the time I reported in from leave on Christmas Eve. The Marine clerk looked at me and said, "Why are you here, no one else is?"
Or the time that I was sent to Mountian Warfare/Cold Weather Survival School with a very serious ear infection to live in a self dug snow hole and all that went with the training.
Sometimes we wonder about a Marines attitude. It may have been shaped by an experience much different then ours and I think it is prehaps, what the Marine Corps CAN control verses what we experienced in our duty.
The way I have always seen it is that I joined the Marine Corps---the Marine Corps didn't join me!
Semper Fi