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Wounded Marine Colonel Demonstrates the Meaning of Leadership

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Posted by too true 2005-07-30 08:46|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Maxwell's Marines. Awesome story - thx, tt! It's true, too (sorry about the pun, heh) - there is no way to talk to anyone about it that hasn't been there. These people are first-rate and Maxwell's idea is worthy of serious emulation and expansion. Kudos, Tim.

Posted by .com 2005-07-30 09:54|| 2005-07-30 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow! Forget Shaq or whatever sports star or hollywierd pretty-boy is up this month. These are the real heros!

I am in awe of these people.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-07-30 09:59|| 2005-07-30 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Only three 1 handed pull-ups? Why it's a disgrace I tell ya. I can do 3 pullups, course I have to use both hands and rest between 'em

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-30 10:00|| 2005-07-30 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Thank you, too true.

Shipman, I can still do 1 one-arm push-up, but I don't even try for pull-ups -- I don't want to see exactly how out of shape I've become. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-30 10:40|| 2005-07-30 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Maxwell, a 17-year veteran with a chest full of campaign ribbons and awards, says he is determined to stay in the Corps if his condition continues to improve. But, he added, "I'll get out of the Corps if I stay the way, uh ... " â he struggled for the right words â " ... if I stay the way I am."

Just need to make 18, then he's locked into 20 unless he's court martialed or gets permanent disability. I suspect he'll make his 18 and 20.

Personally, I'd form a Veterans Regiment for these guys, above the active duty ceiling limit. They're going to be drawing pays and allowances anyway. These veterans are a relatively cheap supplement to the force structure. They want to still contribute. Detail/detach them from the VR to units and organizations that can effectively employ them. Certainly would do well in helping as garrison cadre to keep a units office/facilities operating back in the states when a unit deploys overseas, giving support to the family assistance groups, and doing the necessary but run around work just before the unit rotates back. Personally, I'd want a team of these men with the recruiters, to man the office when the recruiter is out calling on the road, and to be honest and upfront on what service does demand of the individual, but also what the service will provide in return far beyond the material compensation of existance. 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'.

Posted by Sholuth Ulomonter3734 2005-07-30 10:56|| 2005-07-30 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Semper Fi. God Bless them all!!

and Piss blood on Hanoi Jane.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-07-30 13:07|| 2005-07-30 13:07|| Front Page Top

#7 How can two such disparate people come from the same palnet?

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-30 13:21|| 2005-07-30 13:21|| Front Page Top

#8 planet, I meant, jihadi jane and LTC Maxwell,two such different perspectives.

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-30 13:23|| 2005-07-30 13:23|| Front Page Top

#9 planet, I meant, jihadi jane and LTC Maxwell,two such different perspectives

Because Hanoi Jane is a fifth column socialist which means there is nothing of any meaning in this life for her but collectiviation and murder, even in the guise of a "woman of peace."

Maxwell is a patriot who has spent a career defending something worth defending, and even some things not worth defending such as Hanoi/Jihadi Jane's perfect First Amendment right to look like the traitor she has always been.

As I have said elsewhere on the internet:

Jane Fonda: America's Favorite Fifth Columnist

Posted by badanov 2005-07-30 13:34|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-07-30 13:34|| Front Page Top

#10 You could have knocked me over with the proverbial feather when I saw the source of this great story. Good to see that the LA Times adheres to the "stopped clock principle" - getting it right maybe twice a day. Up here in the Seattle area, such an inspiring story would never, never, NEVER see the light of day. ~~Puget Pravda~~ The Seattle P-I would flat refuse to run it unless the writer larded it with antiwar/antimilitary spin, and even the not-quite-as-leftist Seattle Times would likely turn up its nose as well. Thank God for blogs and online editions of REAL newspapers - it would be depressing to think that the type of L-Cubed thinking that dominates Pugetopolis represents majority opinion everywhere.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2005-07-30 17:58|| 2005-07-30 17:58|| Front Page Top

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