08 Oct 2012Goodbye To The Army And Marines: Political Correctness Has Taken Over

Captain'sJournal.com ^ | Oct 8, 2012 | Herschel Smith

[ExSoldier]

1000 mg of Ibuprofen to kill the pain prior to their twenty miles humps with full kit on 100 degree F (+) days at Camp Lejeune.

Yeah, I remember those days well. Our medics used to stock huge bottles of the stuff. Called them alternatively Infantry candy or Ranger candy. We gobbled them like Pez.

[ebshumidors]

This reminds me of a saying we had when I was in. “What’s the difference between the Boy Scouts and the army?”. “The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.”. Compared to now, we didn’t know how good we had it.

[Travis McGee]

“Vitamin M” = 1,000mg Motrin horse pills.

[Chainmail]

Amos was picked by Rahm Emanuel over all the rest specifically because he’d toe the Obama line. He’s the first air wing Commandant and he’s the reason we have ladies in our Infantry Officer’s Course. He put up a faint protest over the repeal of DADT and then folded like a wet napkin after it was repealed. As one wag put it when Gen Amos got back surgery “maybe they’ll insert a spine”.

[dagogo redux]

I was in during Zumwalt’s Navy - it was bad, but this is tragic.

[Chode]

Goathumpers IN the WIRE!!!

[archy]

Know your enemy:

Steven Metz: Islamophobia and the crumbling of American strategy