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2008-05-21 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-21 18:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. I'm fairly good on my Weber, but that doesn't make me "Emeril Lagasse Capable." The term or monicur "special" has done it's share of harm to what was once a unique and very professional cadre. Just my thoughts on it.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-21 19:17|| 2008-05-21 19:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's a clue: Emeril Lagasse doesn't cook every meal at his restaurants.

Of course, by all means - let's keep the 'special' in Special Operations. It's a trademarked word. Surely that "unique and very professional cadre" can handle everything that gets thrown their way.

After all, they're just marines - they ain't like you know, capable or anything ( I've worked with MEU(SOC) when they passed through the wadi and they're to regular marines what my CSAR docs are to regular corpsmen).

Wanna get really spun up? I have Marines with jump wings! No, seriously. Imagine that.

Just my not-so-humble-opinion.

Posted by Pappy 2008-05-21 21:18|| 2008-05-21 21:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Please convey our thanks to your Special and G.I. Marines, Pappy. And please tell them we wish them all "Happy Hunting!"

As far as I can tell our Armed Forces are working hard to increase the fighting skills of all the troops. It seems right, then, to give them all the challenges they've been trained to handle, especially as the Long War keeps spreading from the big battlefields (is that the correct term?) like Afghanistan and Iraq to smaller ones in Africa, Asia and Far Eastern Europe. Clearly there will still be more projects for our Special Forces than they have to manpower to take on, even as they continue to increase their numbers.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-05-21 22:21|| 2008-05-21 22:21|| Front Page Top

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