Posted on 03/24/2012 3:49:23 PM PDT by ml/nj
I guess I'm the only one outraged by this. I did a search for previous posts and didn't find anything.
So there's this commercial for the Marines that has run at least twice now that I've seen. Lot's of guys hitting the beach &c., but no enemy. But one of the helicopters is full of boxes labeled "AID."
I'm not a Marine, but I feel sorry for those I've know, who see their Corps relegated to a meals-on-wheels brigade.
I searched for a video of this commercial, but was unable to find one.
ML/NJ
“Those of us who pay for the military expect it to kill people an break things.”
That’s twice now that you’ve spoken for “us”.
Who’s “us”?
Have you ever served in any of our military services?
At the annual birthday party I attended last November, more than a few of us old codgers were spinning even before we get into our graves...Hard to tell which drew the most fire: faggots in the foxhole or a BAM commandant at PI...
One of my fondest memories is of sharing food with a Vietnamese farmer, his family and a whole passel of neighborhood kids they were looking out for. We had just run an NVA battalion off of their hill and had finally been resupplied after a week on one meal of C’s per day.
I returned to Vietnam with my wife in 2004. We were able to find that village, only to learn that the farmer had died about 6 months earlier. I wish I could have talked with him. He had given me water three days prior to my returning the favor with C-rats.
When you break things & kill people for a living, sometimes it is good to be able to help people also.
L/Cpl, 81 mortar Radio Operator & F.O., Lima, 3rd Bn, 26th Marines. This happened in Arizona Territory in early 1969.
No, but I do help to fund them and so I hope you'll permit me to express my opinion about the sorts of missions they engage in.
ML/NJ
Rush Limbaugh, myself, and quite a few other taxpayers, I suspect. That's who.
ML/NJ
The “Global Force for Good” is the one shown during the basketball game. The “global” emphasis, if it is for protecting liberty and freedom and American security, is fine too. As with so much of this Administration’s semantics, however, the word “good” needs to be further defined.
Just think of it as, "Ammunition In Disguise".
I gotcha. I do recall the previous tag line for the Navy was “Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of all who threaten it.” They seemed to have discontinued “Live the Adventure.” after the wars started. LOL.
Thanks. This will give me some comfort!
ML/NJ
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