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2005-12-02 Iraq

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The military has been saddled with the Vietnam-era image of overselling its success and underplaying its failure so today it overcompensates by whispering its explanations so the journalists who cover the Pentagon won't get upset at them. Unfortunately, this tactic basically concedes the battlefield to its enemies, the MSM. Time to emulate the CINC and stop turning the other cheek.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2005-12-02 13:40|| 2005-12-02 13:40|| Front Page Top

#2 "For your information the Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."
-President Harry S. Truman, 1950

Perhaps that is why Pace is CJCS and the USN is starting to train Naval Infantry.

Posted by Flose Griper1843 2005-12-02 13:46|| 2005-12-02 13:46|| Front Page Top

#3 To: Flose Griper1843
re: Naval Infantry

Thank gosh Truman ain't president. :D

Actually, I heard that it was because the Navy does in fact need a "police force" -- there was an incident where one ship's crew asked the Marines and even the Army to do shipboard security, only for both to be called away. Fortunately, these new naval infantry (I've heard that they're a semi-speical forces/Marine hynrid called Expeditionary Combat Battalions) should be comprised of almost-SEALs...

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-12-02 14:50|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-12-02 14:50|| Front Page Top

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