Posted on 11/27/2001 1:03:46 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Back off!
We're not fighting ourselves.
We Gyrenes are just bragging a little; we've earned the right to do that!
Competition between the services is natural and promotes the feeling of comradery that is so necessary for the effectiveness of all the services.
OK then bite me jarhead! :^)
Hackworth is rapidly REALLY earning the nickname of "Hack". Not only is he full of Hillary about the Marines being first in VN (the Army only beat them by either 4 or 6 YEARS,depending on how you count it),but notice how he stays strangly silent about the Ranger Batallions and the 10th Mountain Division. Why doesn't he criticize the AF for not having ships,or the Marines for not having airborne troops? As far as that goes,why doesn't he bitch about not being able to get orange juice out of apples?
He is also one who put himself in for most of his medals,and who STILL allows himself to be introduced as "the most decorated living American soldier,despite KNOWING this is NOT true. He was also forced to remove from his published list of awards and decorations several which he did NOT earn. One being the "Ranger" tab.
Fought in WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam,
He did NOT fight in WW-2,although he does try to give that impression. He joined while the war was going on,but it was over before he ever left the US.
No,he is NOT. He's not even close. That title and honor belongs to LTC Robert Howard (ret),US Army. In fact,LTC Howard has more valor decorations that BOTH Audie Murphy AND Sgt Alvin York.Combined. ALL valor awards earned as a enlisted man,and he didn't put himself in for a single one. He was put in for a Medal of Honor on 3 seperate occasions before he finally got it. He got his battlefield commission as a Cpt after he got the MOH. Hackworth knows all this,and even knows who LTC Howard is. Yet he still allows himself to be introduced that way without correction. Hackworth has PLENTY to be proud of on his own,and should be ashamed of himself for allowing this to continue.
That was written by a officer,so you should have expected it to be wrong. How it really goes is "Never run if you can walk. Never walk if you can ride. Never stand when you can sit,and never sit when you can lay down.Never be awake when you can be sleeping,and never go hungry when you can be eating. The army will provide you with all the discomfort you will need in life."
Naw, you don't want that.
My bites are much worse that my barks!
Code of the Grunt
Don't expect anything because you aren't going to get it. The only ration that won't be short is a ration of $hit. Like the buttplate of a rifle, you are fairly insignificant and will get banged around at every turn.
I agree, I love to read Hack, and I agree with his premis that the Army needs to dump Clinton's PC influence and get back the warrior spirit.
But He is trying to hard in this article. The first regular unit deployed came from the Army's 10th Mountain Division.
That part about WW2 bothered me. No disrespect to the USMC, but island warfare should be their speciality. It would be shocking if they didn't take the lead in pacific theater. Just like the Army's Mountain Division should excell in Afghanistan, because they are specifically trained for that enviroment.
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