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To: libbylu

You’d love the USMC. Especially boot camp. All those young ears hearing the f-word 1000 times a day.

Sad you are so envious of Trump’s success. You are gonna love him as President!!!

Go Trump :)


59 posted on 02/09/2016 11:24:03 AM PST by TheStickman
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To: TheStickman

I’m sure you have read it, but Eugene Sledge’s take on profanity in boot camp in his book “With The Old Breed on Peleliu”.

There were men who were profoundly shocked by it, hadn’t been exposed to that level of extreme and omnipresent profanity in their entire lives.

I know when I got out of boot camp and went home for Thanksgiving, I said the “F” word just as loud and naturally in a story I was telling to the entire family as if I had been having a beer with my best friend. I had no idea I had even said it, until I looked all around the table at the twenty or so people we had sitting there from Grandpa down to some very young relatives and saw they were just staring at me with gaping mouths.

In my life, I had never, ever heard my father say that word until he was in his seventies, and I remember how shocked I felt to hear it come out of his mouth (He was relaying something someone else had said!)


63 posted on 02/09/2016 12:37:30 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: TheStickman
Trump is successful like Patton, both like to fight and win.
At Camp Pendleton, I heard a Gunnery Sargent, Brick Brickowski, use, in a telephone call, the F word as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, expletive, gerund, direct object, the infinitive form and a few more.
He used ‘and’, ‘the’, ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘if’ several times.
Nothing else than the above.
And I, from several yards away, understood him, what the problem was, and the solution, and consequences, the whole conversation.
The man was a native genius and master of the English language.
TWB
68 posted on 02/10/2016 11:23:44 AM PST by TWhiteBear (i)
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