Posted on 12/06/2014 6:26:53 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
Of course I can know, I am an ex soldier and have been around ex soldiers, ex marines, ex sailors and ex air force people all of my life.
Quit being like a child and trying to get the world to switch from ex to former, next you’ll be insisting we switch from black to afro american.
Dumpling!
I saw it later at another source as “dumpling”, did they ever use both words?
Well, I think it was used once in a routine situation, just to establish it. I really only remember that I remember it.
That “Piiiieeee” was really something though, I used to try imitating it, but I guess you have to be German.
“What in the world is this childishness about?”
Your behavior towards former Marines...
To those that don’t know ansell12 has a bug up his rear about Marines. Guess the old soldier in him is just envious about what he secretly considers his betters.
“...supported the Vietnam war by voting for Nixon.”
Your revisionist history????????
Nixon got the US out of the Vietnam war by negotiating the Paris Peace Accords. The Democrats lost the war by refusing to provide South Vietnam it’s Defense Funding as required by the Treaty.
Simply shameful treachery by the Dems......especially considering the Dems committed the US to that war and then spent years, dollars, and lives totally mismanaging it.......
No I have no bug against any veterans or serving military, and I like accurate history, and refuse to tolerate revisionist history, and it is amazing how you can be so foolish as to misread a flattering post about Steve McQueen.
Steve McQueen was an ex Marine, he supported the Vietnam war, and he voted for Richard Nixon, he also became a born again Christian.
From imdb: “In that same year he declared his support for the Vietnam War and voted for Richard Nixon in November’s presidential election.”
In regards to your childish insistence that we never call someone an ex sailor.
Here is an old time Marine’s statement on this silliness, he served under President Nixon, like I did.
“”I am a Vietnam veteran, honorably discharged from The United States Marine Corps in 1971. From then on I referred to myself, and was warmly referred to by others, as an ex-Marine. I went on to college under the GI bill, then to the military medical school, USUHS-— always referred to as an ex-Marine by my classmates, most of whom were active duty line officers before they entered USUHS. Later, as a USN Medical Officer, I served two years at the USMC Mountain Warfare Training Center in Northern California, and then four years at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. Every single active duty Marine I had contact with referred to me as an ex-Marine. Every single Marine retiree I had contact referred to himself as an ex-Marine.
The “former” qualifier came into use much later, and as far as I can tell is, for some bizarre and arbitrary reason, considered ‘politically correct’. The term former Marine is fine if you choose to use it. However, I will not be corrected but whippersnappers who were not even born yet when I was, again, honorably, discharged from the Corps.””
I’d imagine that, back then, it wasn’t as easy to just edit out a gun malfunction.
BS.....
Whether you like it or not the term “former Marine” as applied to Marine veterans is, and is taught in Marine Boot Camp as a “Custom of the Service.”
Your objection to this Custom is ill-relevant. To refer to me or any other former Marine as an “ex” is insulting.....you know that and it seems to be your intent.
Your continuing failure to acknowledge this Marine Custom of the Service serves to make you a Jack Ass in the eyes of both Serving and Former Marines on this board.
As for your comment about my “childishness” I would suggest you examine your own position. You have repeatedly been chastised by former Marines on this board for your insistence on applying the term “ex” to former Marines, yet you persist on offering that insult. I think that all would agree of the two that yours is the “childishness.”
Consider that a widowed wife refers to herself as the Former Mrs. Average Joe....
and a divorced woman refers to herself as the ex Mrs. Average Joe.
Think about that for a moment. There is a great difference in the meaning and implications of the two terms...they are not interchangeable despite your immature insistence.
Oh yeah I served in the late 60’s and there was no “political correctness” running about then.
Persist in using the term “ex” when referring to Former Marines will result in my reporting you for Abuse. You have been forewarned.
ROTL.
So you are taught in boot camp now, to not call sailors “ex sailors”, good for you, and you seem to lap it up.
In the meanwhile the rest of the world still lives in reality.
The ex marine in post 27 sounds like an adult, and he would join me in laughing at your childishness.
Suffice to say, he (if real) does not speak for Marines who were volunteers (not incarcerated draftees) and hold a special bond that the lesser services cannot understand.
As others have suggested, you seem to have a lingering inferiority thing going on. Let it go, the army idiot that nearly got me killed calling us down to the wrong LZ has probably forgotten it by now, incompetent idiot that he was.
LOL, you guys crack me up, that Marine was correct and hardly had the resume of a dork. I also never heard of this nonsense until recent years, it is just more Orwellian childishness.
But if you want to insist on getting outraged every time someone mentions a veteran being an ex sailor, feel free to get emotional about it.
“In the meanwhile the rest of the world still lives in reality.”
Have you ever been there?
“The ex marine in post 27 sounds like an adult, and he would join me in laughing at your childishness.”
The “Former Marine” in your post is a figment of your imagination. Any Marine reading your account are the ones “ROFL........”
“So you are taught in boot camp now, to not call sailors “ex sailors”, good for you, and you seem to lap it up.”
Don’t know what you are talking about...In Marine Boot Camp we are taught about Marine Customs of the Service. we are not taught about other services.
As I said, and will do, if you continue to post using the insulting term “ex” to any veteran Marine i.e. “Former Marine,” I will report you for abuse.
You have been repeatedly informed of the insulting nature of that term so you cannot claim ignorance. You will be intentionally insulting veterans of one of America’s finest branches of the Military Services, with a long history of exemplary dedication and service to our nation.
(Get help.)
It just doesn’t get sillier or more childish than this, you think that every time you guys want to change the language that the world has to to comply.
Sorry, but I will continue using the language I grew up with and live with and a family which includes ex marines.
As much as you want us to quit calling ex sailors, ex sailors, and start calling blacks Afro Americans or call our family members something besides ex marine, or ex sailor, or ex soldier, or ex anything, I do wish you would grow up.
Surely you have better things to do with your life.
Continued objection by several Marine Freepers to your use of the term “ex” as applied to Marine veterans should have been your first clue that you are insulting us. You know that and persist in the practice of insulting honorable men that have served our nation faithfully....You gave no shame.
Take your own advice and grow up. Else go to DU where they appreciate and applaud such behavior.
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