The Military Thread

[ice grillin you]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAqbN9HO68A

[Diomedes]

hearts and minds

and fingers


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/us-soldiers-afghan-civilians-fingers

[shorebird]

South Korea: North Korea opens fire at border


Tension is higher there than it's been in a long while. Don't know if they get past this without the end of the 60 year cease fire.

[shorebird]

The Pentagon said Tuesday it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and, if so, who might have fired it.

Spokesmen for the Navy, Air Force, and other military organizations said they were looking into a video posted on the CBS News website that shows an object shooting across the sky and leaving a large contrail, or vapor trail, over the Pacific Ocean.

The video was shot by a KCBS helicopter, the station said Tuesday.

"Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said.

sweet

THIS is the only thing it could have possibly been. Sabre rattling by the U.S. with Obama in the Orient, most notably South Korea today.



UGM-133 Trident II

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Happy Birthday, Sarge.

[Sgt PSN]

Ohh Rah.............devil. 

[Sgt PSN]

Commandant's Annual Birthday Message Commemorating Marines Who Fought In Korea.

[Diomedes]

I'm not watching all that propaganda at once.  I got far enough in to say that Obama gets an A+ for his delivery of the line "Freedom is not free, but the United States Marine Corps will pay most of your share."

Also, I had never before heard the line "There are only two kinds of people who understand Marines:  Marines, and the enemy." 

[Sgt PSN]

Funny that you use the word "propaganda" because that's really how I viewed this year's message too.  It honestly didn't invoke much emotion from me at all and most of them do.  I thought last year's was pretty awesome and there's been a few throughout the years that have been exceptional.  This one definitely had that "corporate media production" overtone.  I bet the crew who shot that had just wrapped up production on an OSHA workplace safety video.  Or maybe one of those BP "We're not leaving until the job's done" commercials.     

[DH]

To all the vets on the board - SD, Sarge, DMF, Shore, and all others - thank you for your service. 

[BigEd76]

 

and to celebrate, here's some free stuff

[rjs246]

To all the vets on the board - SD, Sarge, DMF, Shore, and all others - thank you for your service. 

Seconded.

And here's a great article by a recruiter for the Marines.

[Munson]

Happy Veterans Day, vets

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

To all the vets on the board - SD, Sarge, DMF, Shore, and all others - thank you for your service. 

Seconded.  Except for Sarge, who is a disgrace to his country.




(Just kidding, I love your sexy body, Sargeypoo.)

[Sgt PSN]

That is a damn good article. 

The encounter reminded me that the reason I served my country was because I loved freedom. I loved it so much that I was willing to sacrifice some of my own freedom, or even my life if necessary, to secure it for myself and for my nation. The young woman had the luxury of being uninformed about the military because my fellow Marines had bought that liberty for her. For over two centuries, American soldiers and sailors had paid the cost necessary to give her to have the freedom to think—or not think—as she chooses. We had provided her with the safety and security needed to forget that people like us existed.

This more or less sums up my thoughts about why I joined and have stuck with it for 16 years.  I've actually got a lot to say about this but I'll hold off for now because I don't really want to set a negative tone on a day that should be positive in nature.  So I'll probably wait until Xmas or something.