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OK. I love everyone regardless of their branch
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# ? May 30, 2016 05:11 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 15:20 |
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great idea to talk poo poo about the war dead on memorial day weekend right?
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# ? May 30, 2016 05:13 |
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lets talk about those dumb asses going to jail / retiring with full benefits after dealing with FAT LEONARD
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# ? May 30, 2016 05:20 |
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its us. we're the idiots. every single one of us.
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# ? May 30, 2016 05:20 |
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Mike-o posted:its us. we're the idiots. every single one of us. agreed
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# ? May 30, 2016 05:21 |
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I'm the loving big idiot today because a) I own a phillips hue and b) I spent like 30 minutes trying to figure out why two of the lights werent working. they weren't plugged in
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# ? May 30, 2016 05:25 |
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:this is the dumbest poo poo in this whole dumb circlejerk. does the fact that bomber crews got slaughters in huge numbers somehow diminish the deaths of marines or anyone else? the 8th airforce got it harder than anyone else in the us military. 135000 men served in the 8th airforce and about 19% of them died. by comparison, going off peak numbers of 8.2 million in the army and 475k in the marines, 3.8% of soldiers and 5% of marines died in ww2 I'm dogpiling silly poo poo on the Marines because why the gently caress not. Do you want me to get loving real on it? Sorry I hurt your feelings in the idiot thread.
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# ? May 30, 2016 05:51 |
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The F-35 is a dumpster fire
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# ? May 30, 2016 06:01 |
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I liked it when the USMC said so one else was allowed to use MARPAT. It figures the first time they manage to procure something that actually works they decide no one else can use it because of stupid service rivalry bullshit.
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# ? May 30, 2016 06:21 |
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:lets talk about those dumb asses going to jail / retiring with full benefits after dealing with FAT LEONARD if we're talking about people retiring with full benefits, let's not forget the married USAF three-star who will be retiring with full benefits (as a three star) after having admitted to all but loving the wife of a subordinate ever since he was a one-star Malachite_Dragon posted:The F-35 is a dumpster fire It wouldn't even be a bad plane without the V/STOL bullshit, it'd be a not too shabby not retardedly overpriced/behind schedule strike fighter. It'd still have some programmatic challenges, but a lot of those are due to the whole SWAT weight reduction effort...which was solely due to the V/STOL requirement. Casimir Radon posted:I liked it when the USMC said so one else was allowed to use MARPAT. It figures the first time they manage to procure something that actually works they decide no one else can use it because of stupid service rivalry bullshit. EAGLE GLOBE ANCHOR BRAH
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# ? May 30, 2016 06:42 |
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Multicam/OCP's look better than MARPAT anyway, they can keep it
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# ? May 30, 2016 06:50 |
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Mustang posted:Multicam/OCP's look better than MARPAT anyway, they can keep it A decade later.
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# ? May 30, 2016 07:04 |
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Mustang posted:And then the Marines just didn't exist for 10+ years after the war. Same with the Navy. US Merchant Marine grabbed a bunch of letters of marque in 1775 and never looked back. Also had the highest casualty rate in WW2 and recieved no government benefits such as the GI Bill or recognition.
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# ? May 30, 2016 09:42 |
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:marine dress blues are based on a hand me down from the US Army regiment/legion commanded by GEN "Mad" Anthony Wayne quote:By way of comparison, General Macarthur’s Army killed, captured, or stranded over a quarter of a million Japanese troops during the New Guinea campaign, at a cost of only 33,000 US casualties. The Navy and Marines suffered over 28,000 casualties to kill roughly 20,000 Japanese on Iwo Jima. Even then, the Army played a greater role than Marines like to admit; the Army had more divisions assaulting Okinawa than the Marines.
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# ? May 30, 2016 13:18 |
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:marine dress blues are based on a hand me down from the US Army regiment/legion commanded by GEN "Mad" Anthony Wayne I want to believe this article, go army etc., but it gets pretty bad & turns into an exhaustive list of every fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:sergeantgrampanazifighter1942@aol.com thread ever, relatively quickly. Even a basic understanding of the Pacific theatre -> a sick KD:R was great, but attrition only went so far, after all we just wanted landing strips within bombing range of the mainland. But when "Chinese documents" exonerate soldiers in Korea of their cowardice is the moment when I realize this guy's just got an agenda, and he's old and angry: quote:Marines claimed that the Army had disgraced itself, and passed on stories of US soldiers throwing down their weapons and feigning injuries. A Marine Chaplain even made statements to the press and wrote an article accusing army soldiers of cowardice. etc. quote:During Operation Desert Storm 90,000 Marines attacked Iraqi forces alongside over 500,000 US Army and coalition troops. Yet the Marines garnered 75 percent of the newsprint and TV coverage. This was not an accident. Anyway, it's all worth it because the comments (all 996 of them) are all from angry USMC vets posting the dumbest poo poo imaginable, in response.
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# ? May 30, 2016 15:40 |
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sorry HCT I'm not trying to hate your fun I just get these from my grandfather all the time and like ugh
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# ? May 30, 2016 15:41 |
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Sour grapes don't make good wine, but they do make world class whines.
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# ? May 30, 2016 15:54 |
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a large part of marine corp bootcamp is storytime with your DI where you learn how fukken badass marines are
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# ? May 30, 2016 17:50 |
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Zeris posted:I want to believe this article, go army etc., but it gets pretty bad & turns into an exhaustive list of every fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:sergeantgrampanazifighter1942@aol.com thread ever, relatively quickly. Zeris posted:I want to believe this article, go army etc., but it gets pretty bad & turns into an exhaustive list of every fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:sergeantgrampanazifighter1942@aol.com thread ever, relatively quickly. Doesn't all that just mean that the Army is retarded when it comes to PR? Also there's no such thing as a Marine chaplain lol.
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# ? May 30, 2016 18:22 |
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Zeris posted:Anyway, it's all worth it because the comments (all 996 of them) are all from angry USMC vets posting the dumbest poo poo imaginable, in response. lol yup but it is worth mentioning that the Army guys at Chosin really did get a raw deal for many decades, due pretty much solely due to accounts of the battle from Marine leadership (as well as that Navy Chaplain who really did write the article that the FWD: FWD: RE: FWD: post makes reference to) describing them as cowards who threw down their guns, didn't fight, etc. It wasn't until the mid to late '90s when some historians dug deeper using, among other things, Chinese archival documents, that the record was righted and it was recognized that without RCT-31/TF Faith holding out for four days on the east side of the reservoir (in the process taking horrendous casualties) the entire Marine force would've likely been wiped out because the Chinese would've captured Hagaru-ri at the south end of the reservoir before the Marines had a chance to reinforce it. O.P. Smith didn't recommend RCT-31 for inclusion with the PUC that was awarded to the units that fought at Chosin...it took until 1999 for them to be awarded the PUC for their role in the battle.
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# ? May 30, 2016 18:24 |
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Maybe that dumbass should copy paste your stuff because that's a lot more informative and interesting to read
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# ? May 30, 2016 18:32 |
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How true is the stuff about the Marines needlessly poking Al Sadr? I could easily believe it.
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# ? May 30, 2016 19:50 |
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marines didn't have the best kdr on iwo jima but we've been trying to pad our stats there ever since
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# ? May 30, 2016 23:01 |
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Casimir Radon posted:How true is the stuff about the Marines needlessly poking Al Sadr? I could easily believe it. yeah it pretty much happened exactly as gramps laid out in his blog post: quote:Senior officers in Baghdad, as well White House officials who discussed the battle in Washington, say the latest fighting began when a Marine patrol drove directly past one of Mr. Sadr's houses in Najaf -- violating an informal agreement that American units would stay away from Mr. Sadr's strongholds, treating them as part of an ''exclusion zone'' that was at the heart of the cease-fire in the city. something something violence of action something enemy on the horns of a dilemma something something
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# ? May 30, 2016 23:44 |
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Reverand maynard posted:marines didn't have the best kdr on
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# ? May 31, 2016 03:46 |
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Best K\D for Iwo Jima is probably the navy, considering that the island got lit the gently caress up for a few days straight
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# ? May 31, 2016 04:41 |
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yeah im dumb and got the wrong island
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# ? May 31, 2016 04:53 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:Best K\D for Iwo Jima is probably the navy, considering that the island got lit the gently caress up for a few days straight the marines are part of the navy, so that ruins that thought
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# ? May 31, 2016 06:35 |
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I saw a marine girlfriend modeling his lance corporal rank top naked then getting hosed. Only loving new jacks man....
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# ? May 31, 2016 16:35 |
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Soulex posted:I saw a marine girlfriend modeling his lance corporal rank top naked then getting hosed. You've never wanted to pound one of your boots?
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# ? May 31, 2016 17:04 |
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CMD598 posted:Also there's no such thing as a Marine chaplain lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps
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# ? May 31, 2016 17:47 |
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chemosh6969 posted:I wasn't a marine, so maybe I'm missing something. Is it because it's a dual thing with the Navy? The Chaplain of the Marine Corps (only in existence since 2000) is always a navy guy. The Marines have no doctors, corpsmen or chaplains because they like the idea that every Marine is a rifleman. Similarly, there are no staff corps (Navy)/special branch (Army)/professional (Air Force) officers, either.
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# ? May 31, 2016 18:05 |
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Thump! posted:You've never wanted to pound one of your boots? I wear a 9.5 wide. Not nearly small enough for me to feel anything
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# ? May 31, 2016 23:23 |
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joat mon posted:The Chaplain of the Marine Corps (only in existence since 2000) is always a navy guy. I didn't think it was about "every Marine is a
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# ? May 31, 2016 23:29 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:I didn't think it was about "every Marine is a Never tell that to the goddam MAGTF commander. Supposedly it gets them pretty upset
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# ? May 31, 2016 23:49 |
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The AF is the only branch that embraces everyone being militarily worthless and just not wasting money teaching cooks and desk jockeys infantry tactics
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 00:01 |
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TCNs make way better omelettes than junior enlisted do.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 00:37 |
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Godholio posted:TCNs make way better omelettes than junior enlisted do. Best french toast I've had in my life was a CS3.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 00:59 |
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All the cooks on my boat did breakfast great. When they showed up on time and I didn't have to cook as the belowdecks watch.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 01:50 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:Never tell that to the goddam MAGTF commander. Supposedly it gets them pretty upset magtf commander upon being told that he isn't self sufficient.
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