Posted on 06/24/2004 7:35:57 AM PDT by ma bell
Pacified? But that was last year's pacified in a region where the people were really glad to see us. Lately they weren'r so pacific.
Lame post.
Soldiers know how to use spell. check.
Who needs it when you can demonstrate basic spelling?
2 Tank Bn Cam Lej / D 1st Armored Assault Bn 1st Plt (nerd herd)- Heavy Section Leader / Bn Security Team, team leader-ncoic / Civil Affairs Bn - US Army Res.
Why is it lame? You are/were a grunt, right?
My grandfather was in the 12th Engineers (USA) in France WWI
My father was in the US Navy WWII
I was in the USMC VN
There is ONE common thread - WE ARE AMERICANS!
ps - my grandfather won his citizenship AFTER WW-I
you are very correct in your post. I just can't fathom why the people here are livid...did they come in from the DU site and are brainwashed by Mothers of America?
I know, and its all in good fun till they're both getting dragged out of the bar by their collars.
Old habits die hard, I guess.
U.S. Army Military Police Corps
under Ronald Reagan & George Bush
Except for kerry he looks like a mule no matter what he wears...
"U.S. Army Military Police Corps"
Just in case we ever met....sorry about that.
That's true... exception to the rule. Can put a skirt on a pig, but it's still a pig!
Well you didn't serve, for comparison purposes in the Army at all.
You served in the the Reserves, first of all.
AND in a REMF unit - you don't get to claim you can compare an Army Rear Echelon M.. F'er unit to a Marine combat arms unit.
Of course that type of analysis is not unlike the Marine decision to select a Hussein Loyalists General to take over in Fallujah....who called the Marines unmanly.
RBMiller
2nd/508 Parachute INFANTRY Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
"A uniform makes an ugly man look good."
That's why I like to wear my uniform on Halloween. It's usually a big hit with the ladies!
Please, let's not eat our own. Service is service. The uniforms are chosen for the soldiers. It's not like they had the good/bad taste to pick them! I never heard this childish competition in my house and I had brothers in the Navy, AF, and Army Rangers.
During the Reagan funeral, my dad (ex-Navy) said how he hated those uniforms. But the Navy guys held their own just like the rest. I saw no difference and choose not to compare.
Are you out of your mind?
Whose asses, did the Marines Pull out of the Chosin Reservoir?
I believe the politicians chose to fall back from Fallujah - I don't think the Marines were afraid of those fighters or of civilian casualties (at least the Marines I have known). In fact, the Marines I know or am related to, were not pleased with the withdrawl.
The result is, many of the foreign fighters lived and got away, so that they can kill more of our troops in the future.
GMTA.
Did you serve in either the Army or the USMC?
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