Posted on 10/22/2010 6:53:49 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
The Japanese were also told that US warriors were cowards and for a while many believed it.
BEcause at first they would surrender if they had no chance to survive. Then they learned that that was a worse fate than death.
My squadron in Japan hosted Sakai and some other zero pilots for a one day friendship cruise on the USS Independence. We sat him down in the cockpit of a Tomcat and the first thing he asked was how to shoot the gun.
Hey Taliban, just wait until the Marines get REALLY serious about kicking butt. The Germans, Japanese, North Koreans, Viet Cong and Iraqis all PO’ed the Marines and found to their regret that that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
YOU’RE NEXT!
It was a company from Marine Special Operations (MARSOC), under the command of SOCCOM. They whacked everyone (360 degrees) after an ambush was initiated against them.
The explaination was that given the terrain and the location of everyone, there was no way that the nationals were not complicit: lessons learned from Iraq.
But they were sent out of country nonetheless.
2/9, Hell in a Helmet
Semper Fi.
Insane? Nah...
Disciplined, brave and well trained? ABSOLUTELY!
Because the Taliban hold none of those traits, I can understand why they are so disconnected with the reality of the USMC to the point of labeling them “insane”.
I wonder what the Talibunnies would think if the CHinese were to join the Marines.
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