Posted on 03/10/2012 7:01:43 AM PST by DJ Taylor
By prissy college boy, I guess you mean this guy
This prissy college boy was Maj. Doug Zembiec. He was also known by his Marines as the Lion of Fallujah. He was an All American Wrestler as the U.S. Naval Academy and served in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He earned a Silver Star, Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. He was killed in combat in Iraq.
What the hell is that stupid friggin' statement supposed to mean? If you go to college and then lead men, you don't care about their lives? Grow up.
Your instincts are good but you're way off on this one.
The major is the good guy here. Marine Corps command is going right down the freaking toilet. What they did to the Hadithas Marines, for example, was a disgrace and an obscenity.
"I'm going to win the Medal of Honor, even if I have to fill a damned seabag with dogtags to do it" -- Chesty Puller
LH, you forgot the "Moron" tag.
Your comments are pretty “prissy”. Better to keep such comments to yourself.
USMC 1970-1981
From Private to Major
And yes, also a ‘college boy’.
I know- I misread it as a 24 year-old marine
The media usually does not cover a story where a Marine is the good guy.
I understand you meant ..doesn't look Gunny enough
But our battlefields from Saratoga to Franklin to the Marne and Belleau Wood to Normandy or Okinawa to the A Shau Valley and now to the middle east and near Asia prissy college boys wearing uniforms have died on your behalf
just saying
the OSS was almost entirely college boys
and the German WWII officer korps..except politial officers was almost 100 percent highly educated and even worse...aristocrats...but yet few would argue their skills at battle command
prissy college boys with the right soldiers under them can be an issue
Patton was a prissy college boy and Thomas J Jackson was a college boy and egads...a prissy college professor too
many 2nd lts start out green yes...but not all remain prissy
Didn’t I CLEARLY say I had not read the article? Your comment would have been useful AND constructive until you called me stupid.
The name calling was where you stepped over the line, for calling me stupid for doing exactly what I said I was doing.
I was trying to make a point that the MEDIA usually does not cover stories where a Marine is the GOOD GUY.
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