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12-12-11, 07:03 PM #31
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12-12-11, 07:37 PM #32
Brown baggers!
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12-12-11, 09:08 PM #33
This young Marine needs some leadership. I was taught some very simple rules about work ethic which have served me well all of my life, and helped me to not only earn my doctorate degree but also to earn and receive recognition ahead of most everyone else.
Start working early before everyone else. Stay late working more than everyone else. Look for more responsibility and opportunities to serve someone else without being asked to do so, and say "I can" when asked to do anything.
Pretty simple. And the best universal rule that I learned from a very smart man was that if we do more work than we are being paid for, pretty soon we will be paid for more than we are doing.
Semper Fi, Tom
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12-12-11, 09:49 PM #34
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12-12-11, 09:51 PM #35
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12-13-11, 12:33 AM #36
Larry why would you talk about sea lawyers when all of the posters from the time frame that you served in are saying that they always did exactly what they were told?
Has the concept of sea lawyer changed from yesteryear to today?
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12-13-11, 01:13 AM #37
One thing that hasn't changed .... the quality and diversity of the chow is based entirely on the average number of Marines they feed on a daily basis.
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12-13-11, 06:34 AM #38
Your command doesn't have to let you go home to your wife after "work" technically they're releasing you for Liberty. It's the Marine Corps for Gods sake! I was married and ate at the chow hall alot, extremely fair price for good chow.
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12-13-11, 09:29 AM #39
No, the concept has not changed but some memories may have.
Truth be told most did follow orders, as described, but there have always been a small contingents of malcontents, winers, and deliberate misfits.
Of course there were also those who excelled in combat assignments but did not fit well in the peacetime Marine Corps.
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12-13-11, 09:53 AM #40
Geeez Dave you Marines sure had it soft. I recall dining in the ward room aboard the Kennedy. All we had was steak and eggs, sausage, omelets, fresh fruit, freshly squeezed oj, freshly baked muffins, biscuits and doughnuts all served by mess attendants on real china. Sort of makes me wish I was at Lejeune with you.
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12-13-11, 10:34 AM #41
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12-13-11, 11:16 AM #42
Tha Chow in tha BRIG,was Lean and Mean...Bread,Lettuce & Water,That was after having Din Din eating out The Ossifers Wives when their Men were on War Games...Eatin out at tha Y...Was worth doin 29 Day's in tha BRIG...Semper Ho Ho Ho...With all Due Respect
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12-13-11, 11:36 AM #43
Why not just go to the Chow Hall? Relax, have a cup of coffee, or whatever?
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12-13-11, 11:58 AM #44
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12-13-11, 12:22 PM #45
I guess this must be the generational shift that's occurred from yesteryear to today.
As the Marines from this generation want to be the one's who are dirty, hungry while kicking in doors (or providing the best support for those that do) in afghanistan or iraq compared to I guess what the yesteryear Marines want of looking good on a poster.
Today's Marines want to be like -
Caring more about the battlefield then having hands in the pocket or low regs.
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