Your Marines
 

Missions are going very well for us. We have detained several bad guys and corresponded warrants for them. The weather has been hot, then full of sand as the movie like sandstorms roll into our area. As we conduct our partnered American and Iraqi missions, we compliment one another as they can notice things we cant and we can bring a hell storm to the scene in a blink of an eye. I know you arnt hearing anything about how well the Iraqi’s are doing but they are doing great things, every day. They are listening to us, learning and when we see them make several small strides we know we are on the right path. Some working for free, only to make a difference. They are making a difference!

Your Marines have great morale. Living in sandy uncomfortable conditions, covered in sand after each sandstorm as their wooden swahut allows the dirt to flow in from the constant blowing wind. I love these times, I really do. You have those unforgettable events with fellow Marines, you live them. Like the ones you may have have experienced at a family reunion when you laughed so hard you cried. Here, there are times to laugh and times you are ready to throttle up. Times that make you shake your head and think that there is no way you could make these things up. Sharing the misery, building an indescribable bond.

Making a difference, a difference that won’t be on the TV screen in front of America’s faces tonight but a difference to that family who has lived in fear but now can replant their fields to grow vegetables because “We are so glad the Marines are around to keep us safe”.

You’ve been on the go all day, have a thin layer of dirt on your face where your glasses aren’t. The sun beats down on you as you feel the sweat run down your back between your skin and your armor. Your skin looks like its permanently tattooed from the dirt. The blowing dirt collects in the corners of your eye and your clothes are soaked. Hot chow in the morning, MRE for lunch. Dinner brings a nice stuffed frozen pork chop or maybe some spaghetti. Neither will agree with you later on. There are no 15 min smoke breaks, you see Marines burn them at the cyclic rate. There is not a one hour lunch because you are eating in the hummer on your way to your next patrol. You might enjoy an occasional quiet gathering of Marines at sunset and enjoy a cigar. Talk and make deals and wheel and deal as you review the day.

These are your Marines.

From a supporter & my response.
Please know that there are those of us who are not only aware, but utterly grateful for your sacrifice. I don't know you, but I do, and I love you and I thank you. I am eternally in your debt and anything I can do to help ease your service, I will.

God bless you and all our troops, marines, Airmen&women, sailors! (And anyone else I don't know the proper military name for but who nonetheless deserves a prayer.)

From me to the supporter:
That’s all we ask for. A simple Thank you. We will walk through fire for you when you say that to us. We don’t do it for money, we don’t do it for gain. We do it for each other and for all of you so you don’t have to feel any pain. We are proud to be your Marines-Semper Fi

Source and more commentary.

Randy

Semper Fi!

Brings a tear to my eye, nice to think about, particularly this weekend

Damn, and its only Saturday. The one for Monday should be even better.

Hope so as they all deserve it more than most Americans will ever realize.

Thanks Randy!

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The few, the proud, the Marines!

Is this what life is like when they are not throwing puppies off of cliffs, raping Iraqi women and children or using Korans for target practice.
Sounds kind of boring.

You are exactly right. When I was in Iraq, just after the puppy toss, we made the women we raped hold bibles before we shot them. We liked variety...boredom is a hump.

Just like you, you spoon-fed...never mind. You may want to expand your world view.

Edit. Thanks, Randy. I am not a brave man, but I have taken many brave young men into battle, dropped them off and then flew home. No Marines, but I'd have given them a discount on the fare.

Happy Memorial Day.

Nice comment on Memorial Day Weekend, when most of us are showing respect for the military men and women who gave their lives so that you could have freedom of speech (among others) to blurt out stoopid statements like this.

How about you return to the back yard and continue kicking your dog. When the dog is dead you can return to beating your wife or whatever it is that you do for sport...

That is funny. Seriously

I would never kick a dog. I'm insulted.

Seems like you totally missed the blatant sarcasm in Dipso's post.

I guess no one has inserted Sarcasm detection programming in your jar head? :D

PS: Yes, this is good natured inter-service ribbing. I figured i'd point it, seeing as how you gy-renes are of limited intelligence. ;)

Guess this ex-US Army vet also missed the sarcasm in Dip's post.

Joe

PS Seahawk is not a jar-head.

Sailors, Marines, same thing..they all belong to the Department of the Navy. :D

I doubt even Michael Moore would actually say what Dipso said and mean it.

PS: To all our troops and vets...Thanks.

But you feel its ok to strike out at our military on Memorial day weekend? What a man!

I think you have inhaled too much sand.

Thats better than sitting on the beach in SoCal going after the military on a weekend like this.

Well Joe, if Dipso really meant that statement, i share yours and the semen's views of him. But it struck me as blatant sarcasm.

Perhaps he should clarify?

Oh, you guys need to lighten up man. I am just home today on a ****ty weekend drinking beer and having fun in OT.
The reason I said you breathe too much sand is twofold....you live in Arizona and you were in the service.
The reason I said it, was because you didn't catch the joke about me only disagreeing with the kick the dog statement, but beating the wife goes unnoticed.
Maybe you do breathe too much sand?

"Semen's"...man, I love that:)

I don't need a new call sign, btw:cool:

Is that a plea?

Yeah but you think he's serious! And that's not funny. That's sad!

Don't pussy out now. Be a man & stand behind your statement (I forgot I'm talking to a leftie. You might want to look up the definition of man). The first part of your earlier post showed your true feelings about our military.

Down boy, remember your the one that thinks things around here are complicated.
Maybe you should look up the word" mule".

P.S. I would love to walk a mile in your shoes, I just don't have an anvil to put them on.

Just because you had a baD week sucking pecker doesn't give you a free pass to insult those who who degfend your rights and just because your boyfriend beats you doesn't mean that the real men here beat their wifes:mad:
You have a sick sence of fun if you think insulting those who defend this country is fun:mad:

I hope I never meet you :mad:

YEEEEHaw. I can tell it's late on the east coast. What the hell does degfend mean?
Is my sence of fun sick.
Damn!

But it's always the same on the left coast.

I think it's time for some cowhand to walk you to your stable.

Down Boy? Son, we might need to have a talk someday! Calling anyone "boy" these days is almost guaranteed to open a can of whoopass, especially a thread regarding Marines!

You might need to look up the meaning of the word "Dip" sometime! Guess you got the right name for yourself early on.

You as well just keep digging the hold deeper. Must be some good beer you are drinking.

It is not even that late in Arizona, and you can't even figure out the connection between down boy and a mule. Amazing.
Should I keep digging my hold deeper.

Dipsheet? The spelling police!

It's 8:00 here my friend. I am going to go watch cops.
Maybe I'll see you.

Here is an excerpt from this LA Times opinion today about the Marines.



The article is in part about the racist movie director Spike Lee and his comments about how Clinton Eastwood was racist because he didn't include portrayals of black soldiers on Iwo Jima in Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

The director was in Cannes, serving on one of the film festival's minor juries, when he took the opportunity to slam Clint Eastwood for the absence of African American characters in his critically acclaimed films on the bloodiest battle of World War II's Pacific campaign, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima."

"He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back, and there was not one black soldier in both of those films," Lee said. "Many veterans, African Americans, who survived that war are upset at Clint Eastwood. In his vision of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist. Simple as that. I have a different version."

You bet he does, which is why his next picture just happens to be the story of four soldiers serving in an all-black Army division in Italy. Controversy makes good publicity, and envy of Eastwood's success is an understandable, if not particularly admirable, trait.

There is, however, the small matter of history and dramatic storytelling. Putting aside the fact that there were no "soldiers" on Iwo Jima, only Marines, let's stipulate for the record that it might be hard to work too many African Americans into a story about the Japanese Imperial Army, which is what "Letters from Iwo Jima" was.

As far as "Flags of Our Fathers" goes, 900 of the 19,168 black Americans who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II were among the 250,000 Americans who ultimately went ashore there. All were in rigidly segregated units. Only the black Marines of the 8th Ammunition Company came ashore during the second and third waves, which would have put them on the island in time for the flag-raising that was the subject of the film.

Moreover, the fact of the matter is that looking back over Eastwood's directorial career -- including his Oscar-winning films "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby" -- there's probably no filmmaker of similar stature in Hollywood history who has so unself-consciously created central roles for actors who just happened to be African American.

Both the outbursts we heard this week belong to the era of identity politics and culture that is now thankfully fading. From the start, the insistence that race and ethnicity were central to American identity constituted an intellectual swamp that ultimately had to drain into a moral sewer. That's why its outflow -- like the remarks Lee made this week -- now strike us as bilge.


Semper Fi (1970-72, MOS 0844-Forward Observer for 175 mm guns and 8" Howitzers)

Bad sand storm here in Baghdad today and I am breathing too much sand.

All hail the freedom of speech, even for lefties.... and remember that brains are not required. Only an opinion, with a side of disrespect, and every ******* lefty has one. Ciao...

:D

Was just re-reading Cobra II a bit earlier tonight. That book reinforces that our troops sure did one hell of a job during OIF despite a largely screwed up plan, and really poor logistics, and expecting to fight an entirely different enemy, and a force about 1/4 the size that the operation called for.

Again, thanks.

The last left wing buffoon that journeyed down the road you're on appeared to suffer some sort of breakdown. He began making statements like we were face to face & getting ready for some UFC action. Remember, if you had much of a brain, you wouldn't be a leftie. Quit while you're ahead.

PS The ability to sit through an episode of cops is proff that you're not in charge of a whole lot of brain power.SmileWavy

Spike Lee = racist pos. You can learn all you need to know about Spike by watching Bamboozled. I know it's designed to invoke white guilt, but it didn't for me. I just laughed. Mantan & Sleep & Eat, The Alabama Porch Monkeys, The Jolly Nigger Bank, were all clear indications of where Spike is coming from. On top of all of that, Spike is a punk. He's have gotten his ass whipped 3 times a week where I grew up.
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