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2010-11-10 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Frank G 2010-11-10 09:58|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 kicking ass and taking names for 235 yrs

Posted by Frank G 2010-11-10 10:00|| 2010-11-10 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Y'all might find this interesting. I was ALMOST a Marine.

I enlisted the Navy in march 1966 and when we got to Great Lakes (Boot camp) we were all seated in a huge auditorium and they announced "As recruiting is down, You first ten are now Coast Guard, You second thirty are Now Marines, and the rest are Navy".
Well since I enlisted Navy, and as I wasn't in the first 40 all was well, then as we left A JG blocked the door and said Y'all are Marines too, we need more than thirty, I spoke up "I enlisted as Navy, I'm already sworn in, and either you move or I'm going to walk over you"

(I enlisted under a special program, as I was already a Machinist, I was an E-3 from the start, I didn't think the marines needed Machinists and figured they'd take it away)

He moved.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-11-10 10:57|| 2010-11-10 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Now it was downhill all the way. Brushing aside roadblocks, snipers, and attempted ambushes, the two regiments crashed down toward Hagaru. Coming toward the friendly lines, some of the Marines tried to sing. Others marched in, erect, in column, picking up a cadence without order. Men so tired they could hardly stand, who had fouled themselves repeatedly from raging dysentary, who had frostbitten faces and fingers and who were weak from hunger, made one final effort - and marched in like Marines.

This Kind of War, Changjin Reservoir, T.R. Fehrenbach

Happy Birthday Marines.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-11-10 12:09|| 2010-11-10 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Semper Fi, 1968-1975 USMC, USMCR

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-11-10 13:07|| 2010-11-10 13:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Ooorah to Bud and Charlie...

Posted by tu3031 2010-11-10 13:24|| 2010-11-10 13:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Happy Birthday to my fellow Marines!

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2010-11-10 13:50|| 2010-11-10 13:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you Marines!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-11-10 14:31|| 2010-11-10 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I think this ties in nicely with the article yesterday about Ted Rall threatening to "take up arms." Go ahead, Ted: take a couple of shots at that Marine rifle platoon over there and lemme know how it works out for you.

Posted by Matt 2010-11-10 18:35|| 2010-11-10 18:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Semper Fi...USMC 1997-present...Ooh-rah.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-11-10 22:39|| 2010-11-10 22:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Happy birthday, and thank you.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-11-10 23:12|| 2010-11-10 23:12|| Front Page Top

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