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Thread: ...And to keep our honor clean
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02-25-04, 05:28 PM #1
...And to keep our honor clean
He's another that will give you a chill of pride!
Image borrowed from MarineScoutSniper.com
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02-25-04, 06:54 PM #2
The Leathernecks Motorcycle Club included this in the monthly newsletter last year. If I remember correctly, 8th and I Marines volunteer to go and clean this every morning. The other services were never touched.... until the story was in the newsletter. A Corpsman in the club went down and cleaned the Navy side.
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02-25-04, 06:59 PM #3
Come to reunion 2004...
and get the chance to shine it yourself
I guess you got to go to the link... it won't show up !!
Fix it Roger ??
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02-25-04, 07:04 PM #4
PS...
for all whom may be un famalier with the above crest.
This is the base of the flag pole at the Viet Nam Veterans memorial, Washington DC
The Marines are the only unit that KEEP their Emblem 'cleaned and polished' !!
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02-27-04, 09:58 AM #5
Brings a smile to an old Marine's face.
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02-27-04, 10:08 AM #6
Just another reason why Honor Courage Commitment is more than just words to the Marines..it's a way of life.
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02-27-04, 10:45 AM #7
I am one of the 8th and I Marines that would run my squad down there and shine the emblem... Then one day we all got in trouble by a park ranger, he said it wasn't legal to put brasso on government property... I think he was former army or something. So from then on we did night ops... Get the picture.
Semper Fi.
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02-27-04, 10:48 AM #8
That Park Ranger needed a good PT session to change his attitude...
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02-27-04, 11:03 AM #9
Any one in here
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02-27-04, 12:11 PM #10
OUTSTANDING!!!
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02-28-04, 06:31 AM #11
SgtJ:
What sort of knucklehead was that park ranger? He couldn't have been in the service, or he would have realized that everything in the military is Government Property. We were ISSUED Brasso in Boot Camp. I was never given anything I wasn't expected to use. We were ISSUED brass belt buckles, and told to take the quartermaster off of them. That forced us to shine the brass.
Try explaining to the company Top why your brass isn't shined before the Regimental C.O begins inspection. He would give you "Park Ranger" where the sun don't shine, all the way to the Article 15 hearing.
The same goes for the Dress Blue Uniform, with all its brass buttons as well as the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor posted on the dress cover.
What about all those brass items onboard Naval vessels? Are they supposed to be left to turn green?
The ranger was just being an A**hole. By the way, did you guys use camo sticks on your faces and hands for the night forays? Sounds like a blast.
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02-28-04, 07:47 AM #12
Thanks SgtJ....
For 'keeping our honor clean'... AND shined
Terry
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02-28-04, 10:48 AM #13
SgtJ,
If a park ranger would have to me that I would have told him that the uniform that I wear has brass and it is government property and BRASSO is authorized. What are they going to do arrest you for preserving a natioanl memorial? What a dumbass. (The Park Ranger) not you SgtJ. Good job on the night ops. Outstanding...!!!
Semper Fidelis
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02-29-04, 10:03 AM #14
Hey everyone,
Sorry to get ya'll so fired up over the park ranger, I am sure he was out of line but it would have been wrong for me to make a scene right there with all those people walking the wall. At 8th and I (as I am sure many of you know) you walk a fine line. If one little (Marine related) thing happens, it ends up on the Commandants desk by 1600. I knew what I had to do since the PR was being a A$$H@@@. Besides in motivated the hell out of my marines to run the night ops. They felt as though they were getting away with something. (I guess we did.)
Semper Fi
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02-29-04, 12:44 PM #15
SgtJ,
But it was something worthy. And not destructive.
Semper Fidelis
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