[Conservative4Life]

As a GREAT officer, This is a GREAT article. I will have to check out the book.
(GREAT = Gang Resistance Education And Training)

[mrmargaritaville]

I can’t wait to see him interviewed and telling this story on CNN, NBC,SeeBS, ABC MSGNBC.

[GreenAccord]

Many years down the road, say, like 30 to 40 years or so, historians will pore over all the documents and evidence and know ours was just cause. Weenie liberals will be nowhere to be found in those days.

[Preachin']

On the link I found this citation for the Corporal’s Navy Cross:

The President of the United States
Takes Pleasure in Presenting
The Navy Cross
To

Marco A. Martinez
Corporal, United States Marine Corps

For Services as Set Forth in the Following

Citation:
For extraordinary heroism while serving as 1st Fire Team Leader, 2nd Squad, 1st Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 12 April 2003. Responding to a call to reinforce his Platoon that was ambushed, Corporal Martinez effectively deployed his team under fire in supporting positions for a squad assault. After his squad leader was wounded, he took control and led the assault through a tree line where the ambush originated. As his squad advanced to secure successive enemy positions, it received sustained small arms fire from a nearby building. Enduring intense enemy fire and without regard for his own personal safety, Corporal Martinez launched a captured enemy rocket propelled grenade into the building temporarily silencing the enemy and allowing a wounded Marine to be evacuated and receive medical treatment. After receiving additional fire, he single-handedly assaulted the building and killed four enemy soldiers with a grenade and his rifle. By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in the face of heavy enemy fire, and utmost devotion to duty, Corporal Martinez reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The President of the United States Takes Pleasure in Presenting The Navy Cross To Marco A. Martinez Corporal, United States Marine Corps For Services as Set Forth in the Following Citation: For extraordinary heroism while serving as 1st Fire Team Leader, 2nd Squad, 1st Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 12 April 2003. Responding to a call to reinforce his Platoon that was ambushed, Corporal Martinez effectively deployed his team under fire in supporting positions for a squad assault. After his squad leader was wounded, he took control and led the assault through a tree line where the ambush originated. As his squad advanced to secure successive enemy positions, it received sustained small arms fire from a nearby building. Enduring intense enemy fire and without regard for his own personal safety, Corporal Martinez launched a captured enemy rocket propelled grenade into the building temporarily silencing the enemy and allowing a wounded Marine to be evacuated and receive medical treatment. After receiving additional fire, he single-handedly assaulted the building and killed four enemy soldiers with a grenade and his rifle. By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in the face of heavy enemy fire, and utmost devotion to duty, Corporal Martinez reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.

[AppyPappy]

I’m currently reading this book

House to house : an epic of urban warfare / David Bellavia with John Bruning.

He describes a mosque laden with weapons. Americans were not allowed in the mosque. They had to wait for the Iraqis to do it.

[NavyCanDo]

But if there was one lesson I learned from my past it is that there is a profound moral difference between using violence to destroy lives and using violence to save lives. Terrorists do the former; soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines do the latter.

You can add Blackwater to the “latter”.

[C210N]

Violence isn't senseless. Senseless violence is senseless.

Good 'ol Winston said:

"...we may feel sure we bear the sword of justice and we are resolved to use that sword with the utmost severity to the full and to the end."

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I had to explain the difference between righteous violence and unrighteous violence to a roomful of libs, but the issue was spanking. The counter argument of one of them was, “how can using violence [spanking] correctly teach a child that violence is wrong.”

The ethics is the same. There is a profound difference between unrighteous violence (bullying, assault, rape, despotism) and righteous violence (spanking a child for bullying, fighting back, and deposing by violent means).

In this present age of moral relativism, I’m surprised that most in the room understood the difference and came around.

[cll]

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