In a little.....situation.

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Well, that's nothing, we didn't even wear underwear.

[McT ontheRock71]

Ha, ha,ha! It's gives me comfort to know that even though the Corps may change from "old" to "new", Marines will always stay the same.
Semper Fi, Brothers
Ken

[silveradomick]

Well, that's nothing, we didn't even wear underwear.

If we did, it was probably your mom's panties, and they were probably worn on our heads...

[oldtop]

i liked the one where they trusted you to keep your weapon in the rifle rack in your barracks and all you had to remember was the lock combination. This one where they are afraid that someone will go bamboo and shoot up the place sounds like the remf's are firmly in charge.

ditto...ditto...ditto...

[HST]

I'm glad to have read some of these posts. You don't hear much from the guys who were in the recent fights. I guess it's due to the media hating all the fighters and the willingness of our leaders to hang the men out to cover their azzes if the press publish something some people don't like.

It sounds like Marines in the bush haven't changed a bit in all these years and that's great and it sounds like the REMF are the same azzholes that they were in my time. I guess the big difference is the way information moves today. In Nam a lot of us had cameras and a lot of us took pics of our kills and dead gooks in general and a lot of them were Marines standing, sitting, wizzing on them and a number of other odd poses. Few of those ever got out to the public and a lot got burned after Mi Lia. Anyway I'm glad the Corps is still the Corps and proud to be a Marine. Semper Fi Brothers

[silveradomick]

HST, thanks for recognizing that fact and bringing it up.

The Corps, for all its asinine bull**** and increased stupidity in the rear, is still the same as it ever was when we get out in bad guy country. We are still the baddest mother****ers in the valley, and will go to great lengths to show it to anyone who cares to take interest. I get tired of hearing the "new Corps" or "going soft" style comments from people who went before us. I didn't see any soft, timid, or docile Marines in Fallujah, Ramadi, Safwon, Basrah, Nasiriya, Al Kut, Najaf, Aziziya, or Tikrit, (when we were outside the wire) and I'll bet Joe didn't see any outside the wire when he was in A-stan either. What I did see a whole lot of during my two tours were expert warfighters doing their jobs very well and chomping at the bit to get at the enemy any chance they could. Combat Marines are still combat Marines despite all the stupid policies and BS, and REMFs are still *******s like usual. That **** never changes.

I remember once during the first tour, after the invasion, my unit had been tasked with escorting Army refueling trucks from Kuwait to Basrah to Najaf. We were hauling azz up the MSR like usual when we came across an Army convoy halted in the middle of the road. We stopped and spoke with their CC (a captain) who said they halted there because they got a report of a possible ambush a couple miles up the road.

Our security commander was a Sgt we called "Mother" because he always took care of and looked after us. He got the word on the situation from the Army Cpt, and ordered our convoy to halt with the other Army convoy and punch out security. He then took our security element (two humvees with .50's and a 7 ton with six Marines in the back), left two Marines in charge of the security for both stopped convoys, and away we went up the road to see if we could make contact with this ambush and convince them that ambushing Marines was a really bad idea.

The point of the long winded story is that not a word was said about this incident by anyone. It wasn't extraordinary, it was business as usual, because being aggressive and taking charge is what Marines are still taught and encouraged to do. The Army personnel were flabbergasted that we would be so bold with so small an element, going to assault an unknown sized enemy force. "Mother's" answer to them when they questioned us? "How the hell are we supposed to know how many there are if we don't go up there and find out?"

Thousands and thousands of examples of Marines just being Marines occurred throughout our most recent conflicts, and I get livid when I hear things like "the new Corps is going soft" because that is totally not the case. We still Make Marines, we still win battles, same as always.

[McT ontheRock71]

Well said Justin.

[HST]

Well you guys didn't just win battles, you actually won the war. According to the Kissinger stats we "won" the war in Vietnam We were killing them by the millions in Nam. Every time we called in an airstrike or a fire mission we'd get a call from the rear for a "body count" and if we reported that we couldn't get one for some reason, like too many gooks around or bad terrain, we'd get a little sermon about the cost of the air or arty support and if we didn't have positive results they might have to cut it back. So everyone just made up the numbers. Some of them were so clearly false it was funny but the REMF's loved them the bigger the better.....and that's how we defeated those Godless commies who are now making tennis shoes at $5.00 a peir and sending them here at $100.00 a pair.

[FistFu68]

Ain't No Biggy...You YoungBucks should of heard the comments from the WW11 & Korean Vets during our Era it's always been a leg P***ing Contest all in a days hump 4 a Grunt...Hell I got Skivvies older than most Jarheads these days & Im wearing Em right now LOL S/F that