Attention On Deck!!!!!!!

[SGT T]

IM NOT SCHOOLIN YOU ON ANYTHING....YOU HAVE TASTED AND EXPERIENCED THINGS THAT I CANT EVEN IMAGINE AND FOR THAT I WILL RESPECT YOU AND YOUR VIEWS..ALL I AM SAYING IS THAT GRUNTS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES EATING RATS AND LIVING IN THOSE PATTIES..GOD BLESS YOU MIDNIGHT FOR THE FIGHT THAT YOU BRAVED FOR DOING THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY RESPECT.

SEMPER FI BROTHER AND GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL LIKE YOU

[LadyLeatherneck]

Originally posted by USMC0311

WTF U know bout hard??? damn rock paintin Maitainance Batallion. No glory in policing the deck..U not even close to the shadow of HARD..
U suck it up Marine!!!!!
How ya like the taste?? Tired of all the BLOWHARD silly wannaB's crap

WTF do you know about my life?!! I've never claimed to be
no COMBAT Marine, but I do claim the title MARINE...EARNED
IT AND BUSTED MY BUTT FOR IT SO if you don't like it as I said


SUCK IT UP AND MOVE ON!!!

and you can call me a wanna be if you want and all the silly
names you want BUT I KNOW WHO I AM!!!!

[LadyLeatherneck]

If you have a bone to pick with me you send me an email
or a private message.

[Shaffer]

USMC0311 -- your losing points with the women bro...Gonna be hard to get a date talking like that.

Some women demand respect...others have earned it. I know that any WM on here has stood on the same yellow footprints I did and they walked across that same storied parade deck. I would never say any of them was given the title because they weren't. They had to earn it. I gove the WM's credit for 2 things:

1. They chose the Corps. They very easily have taken the easy way out and joined ANY other branch. They didn't.

2. They stuck it out. They didn't give up or quit. How many guys did you lose from your platoon when you went through. We started with over hundred and graduated 50 something. I know at least 10-20 of them were sent home as non-hackers. Every WM have achieved what tens of thousands of men tried, but couldn't.

SF,

Jerry

[Midnight]

Originally posted by Shaffer
USMC0311 -- your losing points with the women bro...Gonna be hard to get a date talking like that.

Some women demand respect...others have earned it. I know that any WM on here has stood on the same yellow footprints I did and they walked across that same storied parade deck. I would never say any of them was given the title because they weren't. They had to earn it. I gove the WM's credit for 2 things:

1. They chose the Corps. They very easily have taken the easy way out and joined ANY other branch. They didn't.

2. They stuck it out. They didn't give up or quit. How many guys did you lose from your platoon when you went through. We started with over hundred and graduated 50 something. I know at least 10-20 of them were sent home as non-hackers. Every WM have achieved what tens of thousands of men tried, but couldn't.

SF,

Jerry

Yer not gonna tell us that BAMs should be in combat are ya????

[Shaffer]

Won't tell ya they should or shouldn't be. But...why don't you PM some of them and ask. They may surprise you.

SF,

Jerry

[USMC0311]

Respect ya Shaffer. U a Bad Dog Marine!! U have the insite and compassion of a Gunny..hard ass saviour! got it covered with Ms Neck.I PM her s
tuned and marroned

[NamGrunt68]

Originally posted by Midnight

Yer not gonna tell us that BAMs should be in combat are ya????

If he is, I do believe weez gonna need a whole nuther thread fer dat !!!!!! LMMFAO !!!! Hey USMC0311.....I do believe I can still smell da night mud on ya, and I bet ya still got yer skeeter repellent strapped to yer steel pot !!!! SEMPER FI BRO !!!

[Sparrowhawk]

I just wish, the women Marines would put the seat back up when they finish!

That's all!!

[LadyLeatherneck]

Originally posted by Shaffer
Won't tell ya the should or shouldn't be. But...why don't you PM some of them and ask. They may surprise you.

SF,

Jerry

Well I'll express my opinion on that one...NO!..and weeeeell
...... maybe that's why I CHOSE to sit behind a desk.

Makes me kind of wonder when I professed "feminist crap" ...someone refresh my memory because
I must be getting old and be suffering from CRS!!!

[USMC0311]

U crazy ***** I was 65 we used the A orange suck.."call the dust"
Air B the heaven earth B the smell..life is just us here in hell
welcome back to wonderland Dane and the rest U mudsuckin eloquent bastards ..Semper Fi,

[Shaffer]

Father and son, both Marines, die too young

This was column in the San Diego Union Tribune by Peter Rowe on the 4th of
July. Is a double sad story. Article

July 4, 2002

Like a marksman zeroed in on a target, Travis Evans couldn't miss.

The 6-foot-5 Montana kid enlisted in the Marines last summer, trailing clouds of
high school glory. He was an Eagle Scout. Prom king. Student body president.
Scholar. Athlete.

Not that he ever bragged to his fellow Marines.

"He didn't need praise, he didn't need recognition," said Cpl. Justin Lappe, Evans'
team leader in the 4th Reconnaissance Battalion. "It was a virtue that not many
people have."

But Evans had a rare history. His military career was inspired by a stranger, a
Marine killed by mortar fire in 1983 Beirut. Lance Cpl. Thomas Evans, 22, left
behind a wife and a year-old son.

"I wanted to know a little about my father," Travis Evans told his platoon last
September. "I never actually knew him."

Evans told his story to me in October, the day before he graduated from the
Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Call it coincidence, call it fate, call it whatever you
like, but I can't resist tales that carry an eerie whiff of deja vu.

This tale, though, goes too far.

On June 6, Evans apparently suffered a seizure while training off Padre Island,
Texas. On June 8, he died in a Corpus Christi hospital.

Like his dad, he was a lance corporal and too young.

Women in tears
Evans grew up in Deer Lodge, Mont., pop. 3,500. Capt. Kevin Hutchison didn't
know the place until he escorted family to Evans' hospital bed and then returned
for services at the First Baptist Church. He found a lovely town reeling from
tragedy.
" 'He was just a good kid' – they said that over and over again," Hutchison said.
"You should have seen the funeral. I've never seen so many beautiful women
crying."

In the local paper, The Silver State Post, the death merited a story and an
editorial. "No one seemed to comprehend that Travis, who was still serving
pizzas at the Pizza Hut a little over a week ago, was gone," read the latter. "It
just couldn't have happened. Not again."

But it did, even though no one is quite sure why.

On the morning of June 6, Evans, a reservist attached to the 4th
Reconnaissance Battalion, leapt from a helicopter into the Gulf of Mexico. He
was roughly 200 meters from shore when something went wrong.

"I asked him a question," said Lance Cpl. Kyle Morris, Evans' "swim buddy" that
day, "and his answer was this gargling sound."

A medic in a trailing safety boat pulled Evans from the water and administered
CPR. Evans was breathing and his heart was beating, but he never regained
consciousness.

An autopsy found that his brain was swollen. "But there was no blood on the
surface of the brain," Hutchison said. "There is no evidence of any kind of
external trauma to the brain."

Evans had no history of health problems.

"He was healthy as a horse," said his grandfather, Ken Evans. "It was pretty
shocking for all of us here."


Pole stars
Fourth of July orators rely on certain stock phrases – "blessings of liberty," say,
or "the price of freedom." Too often, these sentiments echo with the tinny
sound of cut-rate patriotism.
But in times of peril, these notions were, and continue to be, American pole
stars.

At home in Deer Lodge, Travis Evans kept a photo of his father cradling his
infant boy. "I hadn't talked to my mother or my grandparents too much about
my dad," he said back in October. "Maybe now things will be different."

For one Marine family, tragically, things are different and all too similar.

[LadyLeatherneck]

Good post Shaffer....Father and Son are together now
guarding Heaven's Gates.


P.S. By the way... you're pretty slick

[USMC0311]

tell ya what Shaffer U got sum grunt in yer head Bro..U a thinker and a Doer..slick *****
Semper Fi,

[NamNuts]

Life Won't Be Easier For Marines
By: Jim Fiebig
Published: 1971

You have to be a little nuts to join the Marine Corps.

While the Army, Navy, and Air Force are issuing new regulations almost daily (beer in the barracks, no reveille, sideburns okay) to make service life more homey, the Lathernecks aren't giving an inch.

Gen. Leonard Chapman, Maine Corps Commandant, told the New York Times last week:

"The Corps is going to be leaner, tougher, more disciplined and more professional than ever before."

The same uncompromising attitude is contained in the traditional speech given by Marine drill instructors to every newly arrived recruit platoon. As near as I can recall, it goes something like:

"You people are not - I repeat - not Marines. You are not even people. You are little girls, sissies, mama's boys, a breed of green scum so low and stinking that it sickens me to stand this close to you.

"I don't like you. And you will learn to like me even less. You will get down on your knees each night and pray I will die in my sleep. But I will not die, people. I assure you - I will not die.

"I will be over your body every moment of every day. I will run you until you cannot run another step. And then, ladies, we will run some more. You will do things you neverbelieved you could do. You will do them right. You will do them quickly. And you will do them gladly.

"You will do everything exactly as I tell you, people. You will or - by God - you will not be in my Marine Corps."

End of speech.
Now I ask you, is that any way for a service to go about instilling pride in its members?

Ask a Marine.