To: cherry
The Marine Corps used to take a different approach. Mess cooks, aircraft mechanics and even office pouges were combat ready before any thing else. Did the Army figure that any of their personel could find themselves in a combat situation?
6 posted on
08/18/2003 11:38:56 AM PDT by
oyez
(Do ya' think?:)
To: oyez
Mess cooks, aircraft mechanics and even office pouges were combat ready before any thing elseA reporter once asked Ted Williams (warrior, baseball player, American) what he did in the Marine Corps. His reply: "I'm a rifleman currently assigned to fly fighter jets"
10 posted on
08/18/2003 11:40:18 AM PDT by
WestPacSailor
(Never attend a gunfight with a handgun the caliber of which starts with less than a "4.")
To: oyez
Very true - isn't every marine combat ready? At law school I knew a guy who wanted to be a Marine JAG and I'm pretty sure he was preparing for Marine basic training.
Unlike me, who studied for the NY bar on a strict diet of diet pepsi and hostess twinkies! :-)
115 posted on
08/19/2003 8:52:59 AM PDT by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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