WHAT MARINES SAY ABOUT THEMSELVES...(Impressive, huh?....NOT!)

NOTE: if your bureaucracy is so weak you have to conjure up excuses to like it, who are you kidding?

Navy Times 11-07-94 Issue

TOP 219 REASONS TO LOVE YOUR CORPSe: JARHEAD EX-lax, LIES & bloodwings VIDEOTAPE: REVEALED BY THE TRUTH THE Mcorpse CAN'T HANDLE! Like Jack Nicholsen reacting to Dave Letterman's TOP TEN but only better! TOP 219 LIES OF THE Mcorpse! Enjoy!

1) Best haircut. Hands down. You can't have a bad hair day with a high and tight. And you spend less on shampoo.

TRUTH: U.S. Army Paratroopers in WWII created the "Mohawk" look. More MC disinformation like "baseball is an old Russian game". Right.

2) Dress blues. They're the coolest uniforms in any military worldwide.

TRUTH: Any U.S. Army Soldier wearing a beret looks better than any marine; he can actually do something special on the battlefield. The Israeli Defense Force uniforms look better than the USMC train conductor cap and dress green cunt cap. If looks are everything, what must we assume about marines wearing such stupid headgear?

3) Bloused trousers. Another distinctive marine look that sets the proudest service members apart.

TRUTH: It looks like hell continually riding up and down the boot, comes undone in the field and cuts off circulation to the lower leg. Tucking trousers into the boots is better for Soldier health, looks the same as blousing while being more tactically sound. Not having to take girlie blousing bands into the field is another plus.

4) The rest of the marine sea bag. From the Alphas to the camouflage utilities, uniforms just look better on a marine than any other service member.

TRUTH: As if this is the most important thing, not! FORM must follow FUNCTION..the usmc has no function. If this were true, then the RED COATS would have one the War for Indpendance. Fortunately, the U.S. Army was there to win America's freedom. (No MC)

5) marines don't wear dungarees.

TRUTH: Nice attitude of respect for the Navy without whom the mc would be landlocked, which it is most of the time anyway.

6) Most respect I. When the Marines pulled out of Haiti and Somalia, the media reported the U.S. military was pulling out -- as if tens of thousands of Army troops weren't still in the country. Now that's respect.

TRUTH: The Media didn't say that, they said the jarheads were being removed from Haiti because they lacked the maturity for the job after they shot and killed several people needlessly. Since marines don't read how can we trust what they say the media reports? "Most respect I" ?? Where did this gyrene go to get his grammar? Is this supposed to be a sentence?

7) Most respect II. When the Corps came back to Haiti after 60 years, an old man on the Cap-Haitien beach said ``Welcome back!''

TRUTH: Sure he did. I also heard the "Great Pumpkin" showed up, too.

8) Toughest mascot. The marine corps' is a bull dog. The Navy's: a goat.

TRUTH: More juvenile examples of non-essentials to try to justify the existence of an arrogant, do-nothing organization.

9) Esprit de Corps. Even if you can't spell it or pronounce it, the marine corps has it in spades. One example: When sailors get tattoos, they do it toexpress their individuality, and their choices range from Betty Boop and Mickey Mouse to raging sea serpents. When marines get tattoos, they do it to express their solidarity, and choose bull dogs, ``death before dishonor,'' and ``USMC.''

TRUTH: High School kids with no identity seek membership in gangs and get tattoos. This is a sign of personal weakness, not maturity. If you cannot spell, ever hear of a dictionary?

10) Best war monument: Iwo Jima

TRUTH: Where thousands died needlessly due to poor strategy and tactics.

11) The marines invade, then go home. The Army has to do the occupying.

TRUTH: The Army gets there first, fights the wars, wins them, the MC stays home. Panama. War of Independance. 99% of WWI and WWII. Most of the time the mc does nothing, the U.S. Army does most of the fighting, invading and war winning, to include occupying the land afterwards. Who needs the mc?

Desert Shield/Storm. What was the MC doing? Not much.

12) The silent drill platoon. Just watching them ply their trade makes you want to wear dress blues.

TRUTH: My high school had a drill team that twirled rifles, too. Girls were on the team, also.

13) Status. Sailors live and work on ships... marines go for cruises -- then hit the shore.

TRUTH: And die in bunches like rotten bananas..didn't they call the skirmishes in the 20s the "banana wars"?

14) Best fast attack vehicles: LAVs.

TRUTH: So thinly armored with huge fuel tank on the side, that orders were given before the Gulf War to remove every bit of ammunition out of the insides and to the outside rear. Two LAVs hit in the war were completely vaporized with 11 dumb marines inside. The M113A3 Gavin, M2 Bradley, armored HMMWVs or the actual FAV make better vehicles than the LAV. The LAV is the last vehicle you want to be inside receiving enemy fire or running over an enemy landmine.

15) Best fighting knife: Ka-Bar.

TRUTH: The M9 wire cutter bayonet kicks the K-Bar's ass, its stronger, and does more. Cuts wire, opens bottles, has screwdriver, cuts through metal, has own sharpening stone.....you'll be stuck in the wire getting cut tio pieces by enemy machine guns while the M9 WCB Soldier is through already killing the enemy. You can come at me with your k-Bar in your hand, Ill go at you with my M9 attached to my M16A2.....

16) Best duty assignments: Okinawa, Kaneohe Bay, Camp Pendleton, Diego Garcia, Moscow, North Carolina. Plus any ship at sea.

TRUTH: Is this why there is so many mc suicides and fatal accidents?

17) Worst duty assignments: Okinawa, Kaneohe Bay, Camp Pendleton, Diego Garcia, Moscow, North Carolina. Plus any ship at sea.

TRUTH: Now you have the truth. These assignments are miserable because of the company thats kept there. Being surrounded by arrogant assholes is a de-motivator. Thats why the Japanese are throwing the marines out of Okinawa, because they are immature and immoral. A marine 1LT I knew was sent home in a strait-jacket from Okinawa.

18) Most exotic duty assignments: Kuala Lumpur, The White House.

TRUTH: Monica Lewinsky is there, too.

19) Best phone number. Call 1-800-MARINES and you've got the Corps. And if you're a civilian with the mettle to be a Marine, a recruiter there will be happy to sign you up.

TRUTH: If you are a co-dependant seeking a false ego boost, sure sign up. Adults need not apply.

20) Toughest DIs. They're so tough that when the Navy wants to train its officers, who do they call? 1-800-MARINES.

TRUTH: Noone else wants their help. Thats why U.S. Army Special Forces are in constant world-wide demand to teach/train Soldiers. When you can get the best (Tough AND SMART U.S. Army Soldiers) why settle for stupid marines?

21) Toughest boot camp. When San Diego was still training Navy recruits, legend has it that recruits occasionally would jump the fence and accidentally land in marine boot camp. The marines would keep them a couple of days, and when the recruits were sent back, they were ready to be sailors!

TRUTH: It was a marine who jumped over to the Navy side, liked it there, and stayed there. The marines had to drag him back. If a Navy sailor wanted to eascape from boot camp, he'd be smart enough to make to the civilian side.

22) Best motivational cry: Ooh-rah!

TRUTH: The U.S. Army HOOAH! Has a longer history dating back to all those wars that were won with no marines involved. More disinformation.

23) Best emblem: Eagle, globe and anchor.

TRUTH: Marines need the reminder of what planet they are on since they flunked geography and don't deploy anywhere. The U.S. Army actually goes to the countries of the world and wins wars, accomplishes missions, and can SPELL the names of the places they have been.

24) Best campaign covers: The Smokey Bear hat.

TRUTH: Hello! Only Drill Sergeants and Instructors wear these. HMMMMM.....Flimsy felt construction that wilts when wet......They are stupid headgear. If they were so great, why are the marines not wearing them now into the field? What about the vaunted mc tradition, huh?

25) Separate heads for enlisted and officers. Everywhere else, officers and enlisted use the same pot.

TRUTH: Arrogance between the officer and enlisted ranks is not a strength, its a weakness. Men follow courage not asshole snobs. Courage comes from leading by example. Officers are not some sort of priveliged class. This is why the U.S. Army won the Civil War, not the mc. Such class arrogance has no place in American society. Assistant Secretary of the Army, Sarah Lister was right.

26) The only official, congressionally sanctioned hymn for any of the services: "The marines' Hymn."

From the Halls of Montezuma
To the Shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title of
united states marine.
Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every clime and place
Where we could take a gun;
In the snow of far off northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job
(except when its its a truck bomb by an embassy)
united states marines.
Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes,
(Christian service members members will BE THERE, Mcidolatrers are going to be a little too hot to be guarding anything)
They will find the streets are guarded by
united states marines!!! OOOHrah.''

TRUTH: God says "pride goeth before destruction". Pride is a SIN.

In heaven there will be no war, no marine corps. No marines guarding shit there. If you think being a marine earns you heaven , you need to read the Bible. Worshiping any human organization is idolatry. This is sick, co-dependance and idolatry. marines are in for a rude awakening when after there life is over, they are found burning in hell. Try saying "OOOHRAH!" in there.

America would be better off without incompetent, tax-payer supported braggerts.

27) Best slogan I: ``Once a marine, always a marine''

TRUTH: "Once an idiot, always an idiot?" No, thank God some of us grow up. I hope the author of the 219 flimsy reasons to worship the mc does before its too late.

28) Best slogan II: ``Tell that to the marines'

TRUTH: And then what will they do? Go to a bar and brag as the U.S. Army tackles the assignment?' Why are people always having to TELL marines things, are they too dense to know themselves?

29) Best slogan III: ``Send in the marines.''

TRUTH: You don't hear that very often today! Its an idea that the National Command Authorities have been increasingly reluctant to do since 250 idiots were blown up in their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983.

30) Best nicknames I: Jarhead

TRUTH: If you think being stupid is great you are stupid.

31) Best nicknames II: Leatherneck

TRUTH: "Paratrooper" and "Special Forces Soldier" or "Ranger" sounds better than someone who has a personal hygiene problem.

32) Best nicknames III: Devil Dog. Trivia question: Where did this term come from? Answer: The German Army in World War I, whose Soldiers' greatest fear was running up against the toughest American fighting men, the marines. They called them ``teufelhunden,'' or Devil Dog.

TRUTH: Really? The men they were up against were wearing 2d Infantry Division arrowhead patches, including the self-boasting jarheads. The AEF composed 99% of Army Soldiers were the ones who defeated the Kaiser's army. The German Army in WWII (a completely modern Army, not just foot troops) called the Airborne; "Those devils in baggy pants". No germans in WWII were killed by marines, they out-classed anything the mc had then and were only defeated by the mighty American Army---a complete Army of tanks, airplanes, artillery, motorized infantry etc.

33) Most remarkable airplane: The Harrier. No other service's jets can take off and land on a dime.

TRUTH: And neither can the Harrier take off on a dime. The Harrier must have a rolling take-off to carry a useful bomb load. Harriers hit by SAMs (surface-to-air-missiles) in the Gulf War were blown into flaming bits because their vectored thrust nozzles are co-located along the fuselage where the fuel tank is. The Harrier is not a plane to survive enemy AAA fire. Its not sturdy and survivable like the armored A-10 Warthog is. The A-10 can operate from the same dirt strips and expedient airfields as well as the Harrier can. Ever hear of the British Rotyal Air Force/Navy, the ones who created the Harrier in the first place and fly them? Or is only the usMCliars the ones who created this, too?

34) Most dangerous airplane: The Harrier. Not a simple science, but luckily more of a danger to the enemy than to marine fliers.

TRUTH: Not so, Sherlock. Most dangerous to those FLYING IT...AV-8A model Harrier--every single one was crashed by the marines. The only surviving one is one display at Cherry Point, NC. The British Air Force and Navy can fly both old and new model Harriers without crashing all theirs, why not the mc? The Harrier has killed more marines than America's enemies.

35) You're a marine. Not a Soldier or a Troop.

TRUTH: Says who? I say you are an egotistical jerk. Try HUMAN BEING.. a better title than marine, or have you forgotten this? "Soldier" is a better title for it implies humility, without whom there can be no honor.

36) That's marines, with a capital M.

TRUTH: Arrogance with a capital "A" for a--hole, too. Those in the know spell it marine for small brain, small amount of maturity. "Pride goeth before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall"what the Bible says. You better double-check that boast that marines will be doing anything in heaven by their membership in an arrogant, humanistic ego club.

37) Tradition! The corps is older than the republic itself!

TRUTH: Better re-check your facts again! The Army dates back to the French-Indian Wars, long before jarheads got drunk at Tun Tavern in 1775. Ever hear of Roger's Rangers? How much did the mc do to win the war for independence? Not much. The U.S. Army won our independence, but does the mc admit this? Hell no..their egos will not allow it. So they distort history and foist it on the gullible, impressionable teenager just out of high school at basic training.

38) marines symbolize: Discipline, courage, honor, commitment, valor, patriotism, military virtue.

TRUTH: When is 219 trash-talk arrogance sniglets a military virtue? Unfortunately these are code words of robots we can ill afford on the non-linear, 21st century battlefield... code words for vanity and arrogance, not hard working humility. A professional would not make a list of 219 empty lies to try to convince himself and others that his organization has worth. Arrogance and smugness are not military virtues.

39) Best recruiting gimmick I: Those darn Knights-in-Shining-Armor commercials.

TRUTH: Gimmick it is. The real warriors are DOING THINGS in BDUs as the U.S. Army Soldiers do in their commercials.

40) Best recruiting gimmick II: ``We're looking for a few good men.'' OK, they left out women. The Corps is looking for a few good women, too.

TRUTH: Quality people are not attracted by gimmicks. Appealing to a person's vanity and desire to better than another are not human strengths.

41) Best recruiting gimmick III: ``If you have the mettle to be a marine.''

TRUTH: You mean the willingness to be brain-washed and worship the mc. Sorry, we are to worship GOD ALMIGHTY only

42) The Commandant's House. It's the oldest occupied residence in Washington, D.C.

TRUTH: Who cares? This is irrelevent. There are thousands of older homes/buildings in America. You sound like a snake oil salesman trying to equate longevity of an inanimate object with some kind of virtue. A building is a building. Plymouth's rock is the oldest owned piece of territory in the U.S. should we start idolizing the pilgrims?

43) Chesty Puller. You gotta love a service that has heroes with names like that.

TRUTH: "Blood and Guts" Patton not only sounds more military, he DID MORE in his career than Chesty ever did. Chesty was small potatoes compared to Patton..or MacArthur, or Ridgway, or Gavin....

44) Former Commandant and mud marine Al Gray (Anecdote I): His official portrait, in cammies.

TRUTH: Cool, lets make the best pictures and this will automatically mean we are better. Where was his camouflage face paint? NOT!

45) Former Commandant and mud marine Al Gray (Anecdote II): He drank from a four-star canteen cup.

TRUTH: Great sniper's target, huh? Big deal. I use a glass. You don't win wars by drinking coffee from gold-star canteen cups. Shiny marine insignia on uniforms help enemy snipers, too.

46) Former Commandant and Mud marine Al Gray (Anecdote III): Business leaders are so impressed with his ethic and style, they're using his fleet marine force Manual 1, ``Warfighting,'' to hone their skills for boardroom battles.

TRUTH: Not. Just the latest gimmick. Sun Tzu's Art of War and other Japanese war books are being used for corprate fighting. None of this is a good sign. Real leadership turns your enemies into your friends. We do not need economic warfare since it results in real fighting, death, disease and atrocities. But, hey masrines love war, and noone that loves war will ever sit foot in heaven.

47) Unity. Every marine is a rifleman.

TRUTH: Every U.S. Army Soldier can fire ALL basic infantry weapons with skill not just his rifle. Tell me, Mr. 219 reason author about firing the Dragon using knowledge off the top of your head. Its not there because you were not trained. The mc has to make firing the Dragon a MOS for its simpltons to operate it.

48) The marine air-ground task force...marines attack by land, by air and from sea -- simultaneously.

TRUTH: Only if the MC can get there in time which is doubtful by ship and its irrelevent penny packet force sizes. The U.S. Army has more landing craft than the mc has (it only has small boats), has always had air assets which it pioneered---the helicopter gunship, close-air-support and armored warfare.

49) The ``docs,'' -- marines' corpsmen-in-arms. They're Sailors, but they're as tough as marines.

TRUTH: So you are going to take credit for SOMEONE ELSE's efforts again? Instead of relying just one corpsmen for a platoon of men who can be easily overwhelmed/killed, the U.S. Army has a trained Combat Life Saver in every squad

50) Mud. You wanna see pure joy? Look at a group of Marines after a mud fight.

TRUTH: Real warriors have things to do other than play in mud. Children do that. If marines spent a fraction of their time studying war instead of expanding their vanity they might have some hope.

51) Starch. Clean 'em up, put 'em in starched cammies, and they look sharp.

TRUTH: Starching BDUs is stupid. It ruins the uniform and is a waste of money. Poisons the water, go ask the people who have got cancer living near gyrene bases like Camp Lejeune, NC.

52) Poetry in motion. They're weapons, not g-u-n-s. And if you don't know the pithy verse that explains that, don't ask us. We blush to tell.

TRUTH: Only a moron quibbles about whether to call a gun a weapon or not. Its a gun. What do marines call the M240 or M60? A Medium Machine..what?? GUN. And its a weapon. More make-believe arrogant silliness to try to make one look like an expert over unimportant semantics.

53) Point of the spear, out in front, kicking down the door. What the marines do best.

TRUTH: If it what they do best, they are in trouble. U.S. Army Soldiers, Tankers, Rangers and Paratroopers kicked down the doors of WWII North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Hitler's West Wall, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan--not marines. Most of America's wars have been won with no participation at all from the mc.

54) Marine spouses. God love 'em. They have it then worst of any of the service spouses. They endure six-month deployments and one- and two-year unaccompanied tours. The ones who survive a career are as tough as the Marines they married.

TRUTH: Any U.S. Army Soldier's wife endures the same and more frequent seperations. Most marines are land-locked at Camp Lejeune and Pendleton, not afloat.

55) Marine kids. God loves them more. They know the meaning of duty, honor and country at too young an age.

TRUTH: Who says God loves anyone sop full of self vanity and arrogance as a marine? He doesn't. In fact, pride is one of the things he hates the most. Don't go around claiming God as your benefactor. More likely its the leader of evil (Devil Dogs?).

56) The Air Force. Aren't you glad you're not an airman? They're pampered, yet they still find time to whine.

TRUTH: A marine always has time to brag and trash talk 219 reasons, doesn't he?

57) The Army. They get all the best equipment first and marines still do it better.

TRUTH: Really? Noone saw the mc jumping int o Panama or renada, did they? Or doing the "Hail Mary" mechanized envelopment of Iraq...BIG REASON why the Army get the gear first, it gets the mission first! Finishes it while the mc stands on the sidelines trying to steal their thunder with their so-called "better ways". Well, noone is impressed with Mcmethodology if you do not get the job, are they?

58) The Navy. Give them credit. They have it almost as tough as marines. But who wants to be a limo service?

TRUTH: Any U.S. Navy SEAL individually is better than any marine. Immature brats bite the hand that feeds them. Where was the mc when the Navy fired the last cruise missiles at America's enemies after the marines got blown up yet again in our embassies they are supposed to be guarding. The Navy doesn't even want marines guarding their ships. Better a lethal "limo" service than unemployed security guards! Oh, by he way, HOW does the mc get to any spot? Who provides/mans the ships? Can you spell N-A-V-Y? Or was that not asked on your GED exam you had to take to get into the corpse?

59) The Coast Guard. Tell the truth: If you couldn't be a marine, would you be a Coastie? In those powder blue uniforms? Not on your life!

TRUTH: I hope someday you are in your little fishing boat and need rescue from a Coast Guardsmen. They save more lives than the mc does and do not deserve any trash talk from stupid jarheads. Since when is everyone's worth based on uniforms? They are just clothing. If you put marine dress blues on Saddam Hussein, then he looks like a stud now, doesn't he? =o) How about Adolph Hitler? He endured more combat in WWI than most of today's marines will ever see. He was courageous but slaughtered millions and was evil.

60) CH-46. Say a Hail Mary and climb aboard. Nobody makes 'em anymore, but marine ingenuity keeps 'em flying. And with a safety record that's nothing short of a miracle.

TRUTH: Don't confuse fraud, waste and abuse with good management. The mc gets $9 Billion plus a year and can't seem to obtain a replacement helicopter. Japan still makes CH-46s/parts. The mc safety record is nothing to brag about. Its the highest fatality rate of all the U.S. military. Its screwed up with stupid people who "talk trash" instead of solving problems.

61) The Close Combat Manual.

TRUTH: Its full of simplistic moves that will get you hurt/killed in a real fight. If you want to learn martial arts, DO martial arts.

62) Leadership I. In the Corps, E-3s and E-4s get to do more than most E-6s in other branches.

TRUTH: Someone has to do menial, manual labor requiring little training or knowledge.

63) Leadership II. Every marine above the rank of corporal can tell you what it takes to be a leader. It's spelled out clearly and drilled in relentlessly. And it pays off under fire.

TRUTH: It didn't "pay off in Beirut or Koh Tang island. It didn't pay off this year when two U.S. embassies were in rubble blown to bits. U.S. Army Special forces Soldiers had to take charge of the situation and restore order. The jarhead can TELL you all kinds of stories from what he's been told but doesn't really know. It pays off for the enemy as marine casualties mount from stupid people in charge who wear their egos on their sleeves. The VC/NVA knew marines would always charge headlomng, so they baited them with ambushes and bled the mc out of Vietnam duie to high casualties. MCorpse worshipers would call this "valor". Dead is dead.

64) Leadership III. Corporate America could -- and does -- learn from the Corps' leadership curriculum. All marines who enter the private sector take those lessons with them.

TRUTH: If this was true it might explain why America is lagging behind Japan and Germany in technical progress, but it isn't. Mcorpse BS is looked on for what it is, immature tripe.

65) Combat correspondents. They're journalists in the Navy, but in the corpse, the job is combat correspondent, thank you very much.

TRUTH: More semantical quibbling. The Army has Combat Camera units. No mention of them here...hm....sounds like you are desperate for something to brag on.

66) Marines do more with less, and they like it that way.

TRUTH: MCorpse: less with less. The U.S. Army does more with more.

67) Amphibians one and all. Like the Army, marines have tanks and armored vehicles. But theirs not only fight . . . they swim.

TRUTH: Army M113 Gavins swim as well as LAVs. M2 Bradleys swim with float screens. Neither marine or Army M1 Abrams MBTs or HMMWVs swim. Only AAV-7 swims surf-capable in mc service. Another mcorpse lie.

68) Air power. When the grunts look to the sky for support, they see marine pilots, not zoomies.

TRUTH: Thats because they do not study aircraft identification to realize U.S. Air Force pilots are flying the a-10s and F-16s flying CAS overhead. Air Force pilots won the Gulf War, not marine pilots. Mcorpse assholes call Air Force pilots zoomies.

69) Style. Nothing beats the canopy of sabres during a full dress Marine wedding.

TRUTH: Getting desperate here. The other services have sword arches. Big deal.

70) Wetting-down parties. No one celebrates promotions with more flair and admiration.

TRUTH: Another mindless ritual for people desperate to feel good about themselves. Time would be better spent studying war.

71) Mess etiquette. Enter covered and drinks are on you.

TRUTH: same as above. Nothing to brag about being alcoholic. Ever look at Mcorpse traffic fatalities lately?

72) Mess night I. Those who make the most pay the most.

TRUTH: Mess nights are a waste of time. The VC/NVA didnt waste their time with mess nights, did they?

73) Mess night II. ``1775 Rum Punch'' -- four parts dark rum, two parts lime juice, one part pure maple syrup. Grenadine to taste.

TRUTH: Nothing to brag about. Marine dead from DUI after mess nights are pathetic.

74) Non-Comms rate their own ceremonial sword!

TRUTH: Swords are a waste of time/money. The IDF has won 6 major wars; they don't waste time with swords. Are you trying to impress women or win wars?

75) Fighting style I. When the U.S. went into Haiti, Army Soldiers sought cover behind their rucksacks. Marines DUG IN!

TRUTH: While Mcorpse idiots are digging they are sniper bait. If you have no cover, a rucksack is better than nothing. You dig in when you stay, the mc was sent home.

76) Fighting style II. When the Air Force deploys, they carry their Samsonite bags on luggage carriers and stay in hotels. When marines deploy, it's two seabags and your weapons. And a tent in the bush.

TRUTH: But America sends the Air Force in first to fight, not the marines.

77) Fighting style III. Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper weights.

TRUTH: You said earlier the marines have k-Bars...so now you are saying they are carrying two knives? How stupid. Not only do Army Soldiers know how to use their M9 WCBs, they know how to fight light. When Army Soldiers encountered a fence in Panama, they used their wire-cutter bayonets to get through, the Mcorpse idiots got stuck at the wire.

78) No smiling in official portraits. All business.

TRUTH: All VANITY. I've never seen someone so pre-occupied with vanity. I suppose the enemy will see a marine picture and surrender. NOT. Boy Osama Bin-Laden was really impressed, no?

79) Terminology. In the Corps it's a ``fighting'' hole not a ``fox'' hole. Fox holes are for people who want to hide. Fighting holes are for people who want to fight.

TRUTH: More semantical nonsense. U.S. Army Soldiers are taught to use overhead cover using the Depuy offset aiming technique learned the hard way in Vietnam. The MCorpse still leaves its holes open so air burst artillery and grenades can fall in, kill the young high school kids inside for body bags and purple hearts for mc bs lies to continue. Foxhole was always a slang phrase, but a marine wouldn't know this because he cannot read, much less read about his profession.

80) The ``people's own'' marine corps marathon.

TRUTH: WOW. I'm impressed. How many wars do we win by running races? Didn't Jim Jones have a "People's Temple" which had 900 people commit mass suicide? Maybe he was a marine?

81) When asked by the press, an overseas marine doesn't say ``I don't know what my mission is,'' ``I don't know why I'm here'' and ``I don't like it here.'' He knows. It's his calling.

TRUTH: Hmmm...Those words cited above were EXACTLY heard often from marines in the Lebanon morass. Or do I have to go and get you the newspaper references and send you the file videotape? Mcorpse idiots said the same things in Vietnam, whining about "no mission". When things went sour there, the mc whining and excuse making began.

82) The ``Stumps.'' The combat center at Twentynine Palms, Calif., is a huge sandbox in California's desert. It's where marines go to play warrior any time of the year.

TRUTH: "PLAY" is a good term. Shoot at a non-existant enemy in a canned, scripted exercise. In contrast, the U.S. Army at Fort Irwin has an active OPFOR that is a living, breathing, thinking enemy that has to be defeated, not a "strawman". In war, the enemy shoots back, not a set of sand-filled oil drums/tires etc.

83) Best environmental motto: ``We're looking out for a few good species.'' They may be charging the beach, but Marines are taking care not to step on endangered critters.

TRUTH: Very encouraging. The 20 people who died in the cable car when the marine EA-6B cut its cables are wishing that the mc regard for human life was the same as for little critters.

84) Image. marines get real network coverage, not the kind you need a gridiron and an academy to get.

TRUTH: Do they? The latest news reports show marines screwing up and killing innocent people due to incompetence. Or plastering badges on themselves to feel drunken proud. The football games sound better compared to this.

85) AH-1W SuperCobra gunships. They are lean, mean fighting machines.

TRUTH: No armor, no night fighting capability as compared to the AH-64 Apache. The Army gunships are bigger, more powerful and survivable. The lowly Cubans shot down two Cobras in Grenada.

86) The ONLY combined arms force. You want jointness? The Marine Corps has been joint for decades, with its own air force, groundpounders and Navy in one.

TRUTH: The U.S. Army has combined arms for more battles than the mc has had a FMF. Ever study Grant's campaigns in the West during the Civil War? ... you were cutting down the Navy, what is it? Jointness means no trash-talk. The only "joint" in a marine is in his mouth which he derives his perspective on the world.

87) When the President cares enough to order in the very best, who's he gonna call? Not ghostbusters -- but marines.

TRUTH: U.S. Army Special Forces, Rangers and Paratroopers are the first ground forces we send into a fight, not marines. Its been this way since the mc screwed up in Lebanon in 1983, and Koh Tang island in 1975. Sorry, the mcorpse is an unemployed security guard force.

88) First in, first out. marines bust in first so the Army can do its job.

TRUTH: Where were ANY marines in Panama? The U.S. Army has to bust its own way in because marines are too slow and too small in size in their borrowed Navy ships. Where were marines when Army troops jumped into Panama in 1989? A handful doing Guard duty, while the U.S. Army fought and won the battle with the Navy and Air Force.