Budget cuts leaving Marine Corps aircraft grounded

FoxNews ^ | 4/15/16 | Lucas Tomlinson, Jennifer Griffin

[luv2ndamend]

The F-35 is sucking the resources from other essential equipment

Follow the money. But, do not forget, nothing this administration does is opposed!!

[NTHockey]

I believe that it was the Marines who elevated cumshaw into an MOS. Because Marines are always at the end of the line for appropriations, every unit has a cumshaw specialist, a scrounger, whose job it is to get what is needed without getting caught.

Knew a few cumshaw artists and I studied under them.

[Grampa Dave]

Definition of cumshawpresent, gratuity; also: bribe, payoff Examples of cumshaw in a sentence: Did You Know? It was probably British Navy personnel who first picked up cumshaw in Chinese ports, during the First Opium War of 1839. Cumshaw is from a word that means "grateful thanks" in the dialect of Xiamen, a port in southeast China. Apparently, sailors heard it from the beggars who hung around the ports, and mistook it as the word for a handout. Since then, U.S. sailors have given cumshaw its own unique application, for something obtained through unofficial means (whether deviously or simply ingeniously). http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cumshaw However, your are correct about how good Marines made cumshaw a MOS due to low budgets and being at the end of the supply line. Thanks for your service!