Posted on 07/17/2012 8:47:45 AM PDT by EveningStar
This is the USMC Silent Drill Platoon when they visited the US Marine Air Station in Beaufort, SC. The exhibition was scheduled to be held on the parade field. However, it was moved inside a jet fighter hanger due to rain.
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Very impressive. I saw them one time at the Marine Corps Barracks in D.C. at a private showing for a group of Marine parents.
Rah, dude.
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Pretty soon, with Obama’s defense cuts, they’ll not only be silent; they’ll probably be rifleless.
Quite an exhibition. Thanks for posting.
After the images I’ve been subjected to, that’s the best eye bleach. Thank you for sharing!
It’s good to look at, isn’t it? These soldiers risk their lives, and some even end up dying, to protect us.
They make us all safer, and watching them in action makes me feel safer.
At the Marine Corps Barracks, 8th and I - I think it is the first Marine Corps Barracks, every Friday evening they have a ceremony. It is easily the most moving, impressive performance you could ever see. It is first come, first served at sun down. If you contact your congress person you can get better seats.
At the Marine Corps Barracks, 8th and I - I think it is the first Marine Corps Barracks, every Friday evening they have a ceremony. It is easily the most moving, impressive performance you could ever see. It is first come, first served at sun down. If you contact your congress person you can get better seats.
I got some pretty good seats for a group of Marine Parents by contacting the Barracks directly. But most would do well to go through their congress critter. Seems that many seats are reserved for bigwig use.
The best seat I ever had at the Barracks was one at the dinner table in the Commandant’s house, next to the Commandant’s wife. :) That was when Hagee was in charge.
Wow - you had dinner with the Commandant? at his house? Now that was an event!!
My most memorable moment there was when a busload of very foreign looking police officials came in and were seated right next to me. They were being herded around by what appeared to be a CIA guy. (If he wasn’t CIA he certainly could have played the part in a movie.) The man seated next to me looked like he could run the interrogation room in a South American secret police station. His tie tac was a tiny pair of little handcuffs. The whole busload looked like they had just spent the day learning how to assassinate someone with a ballpoint pen.
But - the event itself was wonderful. My favorite place to go in D.C.
Ladyjane,
No, I didn’t have dinner with the Commandant. It was better. I had lunch with his wife, LOL. She sat in his chair and I in her’s.
It was a luncheon for a number of our wounded Marines. I just happened to be picked as a Gold Star Dad. It was kinda neat approaching the house from the parade field (all alone) and meeting Silke Hagee on the porch and getting a big hug in the sun room there. She’s a class act.
Silke and several other wives of the “brass” made it a memorable occasion. I will never forget it. I did meet Michael Hagee at a subsequent occasion, but he’s not nearly as cute as Silke.
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