http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php Marine Corps Community for USMC Marine Veterans. en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:30:22 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/images_ln/misc/rss.jpg http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=226 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:07 GMT Okay so my friends husband beat the **** out of her, she tried filing for divorce and apparently his command says they can't do that... explain ]]> Goodenough89 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=226 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=225 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:20 GMT Alright yall i am is about under a year from my reenlistment date and i need to get my **** together. i have talked to friends and family and my... Alright yall i am is about under a year from my reenlistment date and i need to get my **** together. i have talked to friends and family and my mentor about it i am reenlisting but i want to lat move to Aircrew. i love doing what i do every day working as an Aviation Ordnance Tech, but i have been looking towards Aircrew for a while. My Father was a Flight Eng. on the old KC-130's and alot of my close friends are Aircrew and have told me to lat move i just dont know if i should or not. any and all info on what i should do would be greatly appreciated..


SEMPER FI

LCPL WEILAND ]]> ROTORORDY http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=225 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=224 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:02:21 GMT So last sunday my friend and I were doing some shopping in the old walmart on western blvd and saw cammies from afar. At first I figured they were... So last sunday my friend and I were doing some shopping in the old walmart on western blvd and saw cammies from afar. At first I figured they were ROTC until I saw the red patch below the cargo pocket as well as on their covers they were carrying.
#1 THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY FLEET MARINES.
#2 redpatchers(embark actually) in walmart.. wtf were they doing in walmart?? There are multiple bases in this town so it was obvious that they could have changed. Also if they just came back from deployment they could have gone to the exchange to buy some civies in order to go off base... wtf?? ]]> Goodenough89 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=224 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=223 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:24:50 GMT :usmc:This is another re-enlistment question for old people. I am 39 years old now and have three children, one a Marine and the other two are... :usmc:This is another re-enlistment question for old people. I am 39 years old now and have three children, one a Marine and the other two are seniors in High School. I served on active duty for 7 years and 6 months (88-96) and was honorably discharged as a Sgt (0431 Embark). I loved deploying and being a Marine, but thought it was best for my children to step out at that time, with the intention of possible returning once they were grown. Now they are and I'm ready to return. There is a MCO that was published in 2002 which reads that any "prior service Marine" that can achieve a 20 year retirement by the age of 55, is eligible for re-enlistment. I know this contradicts the constructive age (age minus years of service, not to exceed 29) formula, and that is why I am confused. I believe the constructive age formula is for non-Marine prior service. My local recruiters only know about the constructive age formula, yet I have found a few stories of Marines successfully re-enlisting after 10-15 year breaks in service. They are very few, but they do exist. I can still run a 1st class PFT and I'm 6'01 240 lbs with 13% body fat. I've been a police officer since my discharge, promoted to Lt., SWAT Team Leader and all that trash, so I stay active. I've raised my children now I'm ready to come back. Any info, good or bad, would be truly appreciated. How do I start? Who do I call? Thanks in advance and Semper Fi ! ]]> SGT VINSON http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=223 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=222 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:33:14 GMT This was received by my wife and passed on to me. When doing your Christmas cards this yesr, take one card and send it to this address. If we pass... This was received by my wife and passed on to me.
When doing your Christmas cards this yesr, take one card and send it to this address. If we pass this on and everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get. When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following:

A Recovering American Sholdier
c/o Walter Reed Army medical Center
6200 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

These cards will go into a grab bag to be distributed to all
Semper Fi: Ron ]]> txrona http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=222 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=221 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:38:29 GMT does anyone know how long uav mech school is i am lat moving and will be going to that school aslo if you have been how many people have dropped out... does anyone know how long uav mech school is i am lat moving and will be going to that school aslo if you have been how many people have dropped out of it thanks ]]> truax86 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=221 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=220 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:58:23 GMT I am thinking of reenlisting in the corps again. I was wondering if anyone has any incite of the 5831 field corrections specialist. I am currently... I am thinking of reenlisting in the corps again. I was wondering if anyone has any incite of the 5831 field corrections specialist. I am currently a Sgt. of Corrections for the civilian side but was trying to find out how similar they are to each other.

Need some quick weight lose tips too. lol

:flag::iwo: ]]> RichieRich http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=220 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=219 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:31:14 GMT So i got in a pretty nasty car crash in october. My left knee is messed up in a bad way. I can only bend it about 40 degrees without agonizing pain,... So i got in a pretty nasty car crash in october. My left knee is messed up in a bad way. I can only bend it about 40 degrees without agonizing pain, and i walk with a terrible limp.

My MOS is a crew chief, so i can't do my job which is horribly depressing, and don't know if i will be able to again.

The Doc's are saying probably more surgery coming up. I haven't run a pft since march either. Does anyone know how long the corp gives you to heal before they deem you worthless and kick you out? ]]> bandikoot http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=219 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=218 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:29:29 GMT Well, I figured I would just post one of these as well. When I was 7 years old, my mother and I moved to Oceanside California to live w/ my... Well, I figured I would just post one of these as well.


When I was 7 years old, my mother and I moved to Oceanside California to live w/ my sister and her husband. My brother-in-law was a Marine. I used to see him go to work and come home every day in his cammies. Also going to a grocery store and seeing someone in cammies looked unbelieveable to me at the time and had made me look at them in awe saying to myself one day I will do that. My senior year of high school, I was engaged to a SPC in the Army and when he deployed for 26 months I wanted to go see him. Therefore I thought about joining the ARMY. However, a Marine Corps recruiter had come to the school to administer the ASVAB test. I took the test and pretty much goofed it off and didn't care. A few months later, I had gone to the ARMY recruiting office, to my dismay he was never in his office and never called me back. The Marine Corps recruiter was across the hall and said, "Hey, you know he's never there, ever, why don't ya'll come here and I'll show you what the Corps can do for your daughter." He said what all recruiters say and I was hooked. We got my ASVAB score and I was ready to go to MEPS. Except for the fact that I only scored a 22. Not because I'm stupid, but because I didn't care at the time. The Marine Corps recruiter told me to study and we can retake it. I needed a tutor for the math portion and could not find help. Next door was the navy recruiter. He told me that he could tutor me and I would pass the ASVAB surely. So he tutored me and I retook the ASVAB. I scored a 88 and enlisted in the DEP program in the NAVY as a Electronic Engineer. However two weeks later, my MOS had closed out and I hadn't gone to bootcamp and my MOS was changed to a CB (construction worker) so I called the senator of WA state 3 times a day for 30 days cause that was the only way to get out of the DEP program. I then walked next door to Sgt Chamburs and enlised in the MARINE CORPS on April 20th, 2007 and went to boot camp shortly after. ]]> Goodenough89 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=218 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=217 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:00:49 GMT D.C. sniper's execution met with grief, bitterness



John Allen Muhammad was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. ET Tuesday by Virginia officials.

STORY HIGHLIGHTSJohn Allen Muhammad is executed by the state of Virginia on Tuesday night
Survivor of one shooting victim said he had no sympathy for Muhammad
Another said he had forgiven the killer because the bitterness would rot him otherwise
Sniper Muhammad held D.C. area in grip of terror in 2002, at least 10 killed
Jarratt, Virginia (CNN) -- Justice fell short with the execution of Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad, one of his victims' survivors said after witnessing his death by lethal injection.
Muhammad died silently Tuesday night in a Virginia prison death chamber filled with lawyers, lawmen and his victims' survivors.
After the execution, Steven Moore said he thought about Muhammad's accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, who received a life sentence for their crimes.
"Well, myself, I wish Malvo was right there beside Muhammad," said Moore, whose sister, FBI analyst Linda Franklin, was gunned down in Virginia. "They both committed the same crimes. No, I don't feel any closure. I mean, it's ... it ... nothing changes."
Muhammad was the mastermind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002, which left 10 dead and terrorized the nation's capital. He was declared dead at 9:11 p.m. ET, said Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections.
"There were no complications," Traylor told reporters outside the Greenville Correctional Center. "Mr. Muhammad was asked if he wished to make a last statement. He did not acknowledge this or make a last statement whatsoever."
In fact, Muhammad, 48, said nothing from the time he entered the death chamber accompanied by guards at 8:58 p.m., Traylor said.
But in a statement read by one of his attorneys, Muhammad still denied he had committed the crimes.
"Mr. Muhammad maintains his innocence in this case, and he always has. He is not remorseful, although he does extend his condolences to the families. What these families went through is tragic in every level. Given the injustices in this case, what Mr. Muhammad went through is equally as tragic," said J. Wyndal Gordon, who was Muhammad's stand-by attorney in his Maryland trial, in which he represented himself.
Moore said he had no sympathy for Muhammad and was angered by what he said were sympathetic media reports about Muhammad's children that had aired recently.
"They're talking about Muhammad's children, but Linda left children behind, too," Moore said. "She's got a daughter, Katie, and a son, Thomas, that -- Tommy just got back from his second tour in Iraq in the Army. They're not going to see their Mom. So I don't have any sympathy for his family or for his children."
Bob Meyers, whose 53-year-old brother, Dean, was shot dead while pumping gas in Virginia, called Tuesday's execution surreal.
"Watching the life be sapped out of somebody intentionally was very different and an experience I'd never had," he said on CNN's "Larry King Live."
"I'd watched my mother die of natural causes, but that was very different."
He said he might have attained some closure, "but I would say that pretty much was overcome just by the sadness that the whole situation generates in my heart. That he would get to the place where he did what he did, and that it had to come to this."
Meyers said he had forgiven Muhammad for two reasons: "One is that God calls for me to do that in the Bible and the second thing is related to that. If I don't, it rots me from the inside out. It doesn't really hurt John Muhammad or anybody that I have bitterness against."
Among the witnesses to the execution were about a dozen members of the prosecution task force.
"He died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims," said Paul Ebert, the Virginia prosecutor who won the death penalty conviction. "I felt a sense of closure, and I hope that they did, too."
The execution came hours after Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denied a last-minute clemency request Tuesday for Muhammad.
Kaine's announcement came a day after the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case.
During three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and Malvo, then 17, killed 10 people and wounded three, while taunting police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.
During two trials and in years of appeals, Muhammad professed his innocence. One of his trials included testimony from Malvo, whose youth excluded him from consideration for the death penalty.
In a written statement issued earlier Tuesday, Muhammad's lawyer Jon Sheldon accused Virginia of racing to "execute a severely mentally ill man, who also suffered from Gulf War syndrome, the day before Veterans Day."
Muhammad, who opted not to select a spiritual adviser, met during the afternoon with his immediate family and lawyers, said Traylor.
He leaves four children and two ex-wives, both of whom appeared Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Muhammad's first wife, Carol Williams, showed a letter in which he asked her to visit him on his execution day. "Carol, I miss my family for the past eight years," he wrote, referring to the time he was incarcerated. "I don't want to be missed the day that these devils murder my innocent black ass."
Asked about his father, Lindbergh Williams said his feelings about the death penalty had not softened with the approach of the execution. "If you commit a crime, you can pay the time," he said.
Asked whether he thought his father regretted what he did, the younger Williams said, "Yes, I really do."
Mildred Muhammad, the sniper's second ex-wife and the mother of three of his children, told CNN on Monday that she last saw him in 2001 at a custody hearing and had not sought to visit him in prison.
"I had emotionally detached from John when I asked him for a divorce," she said. "And my emotions were severed when he said that you have become my enemy and, as my enemy, I will kill you."


In the above article, I have made a certain statement in large bold print. My reasons for this is to follow. This is the second time I have heard about this incident. However I had not recieved all the facts the first time I heard about it. From what I heard in the beginning is he was tired of people telling him he was a terrorist because he was muslim so he wanted to prove to people he was not a terrorist by committing a terroist act obviously. (Please feel free to correct me if the previous statement was incorrect.)

But the statement above in large bold print stating that yes what Mohammad did was tragic, although what he went through was tragic as well???

I do not understand why someone would say what he went through was tragic. He murdered several people and when we gave him the death penelty that was considered tragic as well? I believe he deserved it. The man did this action lucidly knowing that someone would notice what he did and take some repercussions against him. But for why this is tragic, yet again, I cannot understand. The victim's families obviously feel the way I do in this, or at least have the same understanding in some theories. But again, if my sister were the one murdered, I would want that man to die as well. Or at least feel the same hurt that I would have undergone. Exactly what would you feel about this disclosure? ]]> Goodenough89 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=217 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=216 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:42:49 GMT So this is going to be a completely random blog. First let me break it down to those what types of duties those w/ my MOS have. 1. SDC(Staff... So this is going to be a completely random blog.

First let me break it down to those what types of duties those w/ my MOS have.

1. SDC(Staff Duty)
2. Barracks Duty ]]> Goodenough89 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=216 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=215 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:26:57 GMT I absolutely love sitting in supply for 26 hours just in case a bird goes down during a 96 when every squadron is shut down. I love the SSGT... I absolutely love sitting in supply for 26 hours just in case a bird goes down during a 96 when every squadron is shut down.

I love the SSGT telling me that I need to deliver the gear to the SDC when the SQN MGYSGT says, "WE WILL NOT ACCEPT IT! WAIT FOR CONTROL TO OPEN ON FRIDAY." Then to tell the MGYSGT, "OKAY THEN CALL MY SSGT!!!"

I love 26 hours of googling... Even though you can only google about 12 things...

I love being told that email needs to be checked twice a day for passdown then being told to check my email on my time, but at the end of the day when it is my time, being told that if I'm not out of the warehouse in 10 seconds I'm staying all night... HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CHECK MY EMAIL!??!?! ]]> Goodenough89 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=215 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=214 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:38:16 GMT A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.

The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.

Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter has watched the whole event.

The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, 'Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I've seen a man do in my whole life.'

The Harley rider replies, 'Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right.'

The reporter says, 'Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a journalist, you know, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page... So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?'

The biker replies, 'I'm a U.S. Marine and a Republican.' The journalist leaves.

The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:

U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH :devious::devious: ]]> PaPaWolfUSMC http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=214 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=213 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:21:03 GMT semper fi all, lets all pray for our veteran's and marines in harms way this veteran's day.

rick thornell usmc sgt vietnam combat vet 1965-1966 ]]> firefox2 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=213 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=212 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:18:16 GMT semper fi all, lets all pray for our veterans and marines in harms way this vetertans day. rick thornell usmc sgt vietnam combat vet 1965-1966 semper fi all, lets all pray for our veterans and marines in harms way this vetertans day.

rick thornell usmc sgt vietnam combat vet 1965-1966 ]]> firefox2 http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/blog.php?b=212