[kellynla]

“They are really a part of the Department of Navy?”

Yep, the Men’s department of the Navy. LOL

[COBOL2Java]

Q: What's a Marine shower?
A: Two armpits and a can of Right Guard!

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Q: What's the only way to knock out a Marine?
A: Throw a bucket of sand against a concrete wall and yell "Hit the beach!"

(got these from my sailor brother) :-)

[60Gunner]

Yep, the Men’s department of the Navy. LOL

But then, there's the AV8 Harrier. My dad was a naval aviator, and back in '73, when the Gyrenes were evaluating the Harrier, there was a Harrier doing a flight demo at NAS Corpus Christi. The plane hovered, sideslipped down the crowd line, and took little bows every now and then.

My dad bent down to me and said with a chuckle: "It figures that the Marines would buy a plane that curtsies."

Seriously- I love the Marines. Thank all of you out there for serving! Semper Fi!

[dangerdoc]

I was a proud sailor that dressed like a Marine for four years.

I’ll always remember my first visit to Camp Pendleton. The communication guys had named themselves the Tactical Wire Assault Team and had their initials proudly en-blazed above their building.

Okay, here is a true Marine story.

Monday morning I get a message that the Colonel wants to see me, I go to his office and he tells me that three of his Marines were hospitalized over the weekend and he wants me to go to the hospital and find out what happened.

I get to the hospital and talk to the three Marines. They were drinking on the second floor of the barracks. As they are drinking they get into a discussion about whether they could make the jump down to the ground below.

After a few more beers, they decide to try it. The first guy jumped and broke his leg.

I looked at the second guy and asked him and said “so you are looking down at your buddy with the broken leg and you decide to jump too?” He told me that he thought the guy just landed wrong and he thought he would make it. He didn’t, he broke his leg also.

I then looked at the third guy and said, “so you are standing up there looking at your two buddies with broken legs and you decided to jump too?” He looks at me and says, “well after they both jumped, I didn’t want them to think I was a pussy.”

I go back to the Colonel and repeat the whole story. He nods his head and says, “okay doc” and dismisses me.

The funny part of the story, the team work of the third Marine actually kept all three of them from getting disciplined.