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Marine recruiters reach out at gay pride event in Pasadena
latimes.com ^ | Oct. 9, 2011 | Martha Groves

Posted on 10/09/2011 6:17:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The Marines set up a booth at San Gabriel Valley Pride's Community Unity Day at Pasadena City College. They were the only military branch to attend.

Marine Corps recruiters at the San Gabriel Valley Pride event at Pasadena City College on Saturday didn't care whether the young men who lined up to test their strength were gay or straight.

The Marines just wanted to see some pull-ups done properly: Place hands about shoulder width apart, palms facing away; pull upward until chin is over the bar and then slowly return to the hanging position. Repeat until the feet feel like concrete blocks and the biceps like rubber bands about to snap.

Addison Arce, 23, a slight, sinewy man who ran cross-country at Burbank High School, impressed them with 13 brisk pull-ups. "I've always been fond of the military and what they do," said Arce, who described himself as bisexual. "I've thought about joining. Whether it would be the Marines, the Navy or Coast Guard, I'm not sure." These Marines, he added, "they really know how to put on a show."

With the official repeal last month of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, the Marine Corps, the service that was most opposed to ending the policy, appears to be leading the charge into new recruitment territory.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bhodod; homosexualagenda; marinecorps; marines; military; recruiting
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To: ari-freedom
Actually going after gays directly. wow

Maybe they can't wait to get them into boot camp:

Alright ladies, load up your packs with rocks, we're going for a little run.

Are you a-eyeballin' me boy? Drop and give me twenty faggot!

21 posted on 10/09/2011 6:49:28 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38

So what? If they weren’t a problem they served and no one knew or cared. Why anyone would want to be known for being gay rather than their service is beyond me. It shows exactly what is wrong with the ‘gays in the military’ argument which is crafted not to further some great civil right but to instead warp the military into an proving ground not of soldiers but of PC drones. The left have the academia and now they are one step at a time putting in place the tools to control the military to get rid of the conservative refuge it represents.


22 posted on 10/09/2011 6:51:32 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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To: Viking2002

Oh NO. My sister does not squeal like that. I might, if I see a snake or something. But usually I just move out of the way real fast. Now I bet the Chinese invest in creepy, crawly bug research. LOL!!!


23 posted on 10/09/2011 6:52:21 PM PDT by Squeeky ("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Out or around?


24 posted on 10/09/2011 6:53:10 PM PDT by RichInOC (Sarah Palin is at war with the left. Most Freepers are just playing the video game.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sickening.

Obama and his treasonist democrats are ruining this country, without haste and in every way possible.


25 posted on 10/09/2011 6:53:32 PM PDT by Gator113 (~ Just livin' life~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
These Marines, he added, "they really know how to put on a show."

It won't be long before they put on their own Broadway show.

26 posted on 10/09/2011 6:57:50 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No, no, no! The limp wrist does NOT work on pullups!


27 posted on 10/09/2011 7:01:48 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A queer named Arce? Too funny.


28 posted on 10/09/2011 7:02:44 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

`Springtime for the USMC’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqNfO-2pS7Q&feature=related


29 posted on 10/09/2011 7:05:56 PM PDT by tumblindice (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

“Are you a-eyeballin’ me boy? Drop and give me twenty faggot! “

In ‘81 it was, “Are you eyeball fu<£in’ me?!?! You queer fer mah gear, son?!? Start diggin’...Bend an’ mother fu<£ers, BEGIN!”.

How’s that gonna be now? “Are you straight, boy?!? Bend and thrusts, BEGIN, and you BETTER KISS ME!”


31 posted on 10/09/2011 7:12:38 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: SgtBob

Yeah, that’s the stuff we’re looking for.

Thanks SgtBob.


32 posted on 10/09/2011 7:16:57 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Reach out? LOL!

Carefully--never know what you might get a handful of there.

vaudine

33 posted on 10/09/2011 7:21:55 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Squeeky
Ha - one of my dogs carried a live 14" grass snake into the house last week, and my wife HATES snakes. But the noises she made had had a LOT more testosterone behind them than ol' Fluffy the Weather Fairy there. And a lot less histrionics, to boot. LMAO

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

34 posted on 10/09/2011 7:30:50 PM PDT by Viking2002 (RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)
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To: Viking2002

“Fluffy The Weather Fairy”-—OH I am ROTFLMAO!!!


35 posted on 10/09/2011 7:34:39 PM PDT by Squeeky ("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
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To: Old Sarge
*SNICKER*

Monty Python, Flying Circus......
Attack me w/ a pointed stick.

36 posted on 10/09/2011 7:39:09 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, spend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

" I bet you're the kind of guy that would ---- a person in the --- and not even have the [...] common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you. "

37 posted on 10/09/2011 7:46:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: abercrombie_guy_38
I’d bet money your father served with gays during both wars.

most meaningless post ever.

38 posted on 10/09/2011 7:50:56 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Following orders from command. Sickening, vile, disgusting, revolting, projectile vomiting...

The Communist in Chief is doing all within his power to destroy the fiercest fighting machine on the planet.

Where are the GOP “conservatives?” I think I know. They are hiding in the closet, lying in a fetal position, sucking their thumbs...agonizing while waiting for Obama to give them their next marching orders.


39 posted on 10/09/2011 7:52:09 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Constitutional Conservatism is Americanism.)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38

Big difference between serving with gays who kept their sexuality to themselves, and serving with those who will be open about it.


40 posted on 10/09/2011 7:52:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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