89) When it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight, the number may as well be 9-1-1. Send in the marines!
TRUTH: 911 gets you local emergency services not mc. Desperate idiots use marines since they will suffer high casualties, no politician wanting to be re-elected can afford glory hogs with a death wish.
90) Boss' night. Every so often, the NCOs or staff NCOs buy the drinks for their charges attheir club. Can't beat that!
TRUTH: This again is nothing to brag about. IBM does this. Big deal.
91) Physical fitness. You've seen portly chiefs, but there are no fat marines.
TRUTH: Al Gray looks like he was on weight control. I've seen many fat, stupid marines. Look at their weight tables, you can be heavier in the mc than in the Army for a given size/age.
92) Everyone's a marine -- officer and
TRUTH: Proofread, anyone? Last I checked everyone in the U.S. Army, officer and enlisted have a U.S. Army nametape on their BDUs. Is this a Sesame Street lesson?
93) Actor who should have been a marine: John Wayne.
TRUTH: He wasn't, so get over it. He was 4-F.
94) Former marine who shouldn't be an actor: John Wayne Bobbitt.
TRUTH: He was a marine and he let a woman cut his dick off. Very tactical. You should take this off mc brag list!
95) .50 caliber sniper rifles! OOOHRAH.
TRUTH: U.S. Army SF pioneered their use. Big deal. All combat SF units have them.
96) Most stickers spotted on America's highways on car bumpers and windows.
TRUTH: If marines drive like they fly, thats why we have so many car accidents/deaths. More Greenpeace bumper stickers. I guess Greenpeace is a better outfit, then.
97) The summer evening parade.
TRUTH: You don't win wars with parades.
98) "The President's Own," the marine corps Band. John Philip Sousa, the world famous band master, was the first leader of the band.
TRUTH: You don't win wars with parades.
99) Value for your tax dollar. The Corps does it all for less -- just 6 cents of every dollar spent on defense goes to the marines.
TRUTH: We dont send MC on any dangerous assignments so little $ is needed.. BILLIONS of DOLLARS$$ still go down a mc rat hole of trash-tralking egotists that do nothing as the U.S. Army does the real fighting and peacekeeping.
100) Best motto, Semper Fidelis, always faithful. That's Latin, by the way.
TRUTH: Faithful to what? Itself? Its own ego? We are here to be faithful first to the TRUTH, then America and the Constituition. I havent heard much of either from this list of 219 excuses.
101) Best twist on the best motto. Semper Gumby, always flexible. Yeah, he was green, too.
TRUTH: marines are the most inflexible, narcissistic, idiotic group of people I have ever been associated with.
102) Best slogan I. "Nobody ever drowned in sweat."
TRUTH: But many have died in sweat because they were trying to make something stupid work....like landing helicopters in broad daylight in enemy small arms range (Koh Tang Island, 1975)
103) Best slogan II. "marines go where others fear to tread."
TRUTH: Then they die there...marines think their bluster will make up for tactical stupidity (Lebanon, 1983).
104) Best self description. Gungy
TRUTH: means stupid.
105) First in orbit. No, that's not another gunny losing his temper. John Glenn, that clean marine, was the first human to orbit Earth. Now he's a senator.
TRUTH: OOOPS! LIARS! IDIOTS! GET THE FACTS BEFORE OPENING YOUR MOUTH! The Russians were first to put a man in orbit.
106) marines are first on foot and right of the line. marines form at the place of honor in any naval formation. Secretary of the Navy bestowed that honor in 1876.
TRUTH: Not the first in any U.S. Army formation--the Army has been here longer, fighting more wars and winning them than the mc.
107) When the President climbs into a helicopter, he flies marine one.
TRUTH: And I fear for his life since HMX-1 helos are prone to crash. When the President flies anywhere of distance, its on AIR FORCE ONE. Why not MARINE ONE?
108) Most prestigious helo squadron. HMX-1, the president's fleet.
TRUTH: Shiny helos flown by pilots who cannot read a map. They let me and my platoon off in the wrong LZ several times at TBS.
109) When the Navy needed someone to guard its ships, sailors and nuclear devices, they called on marines.
TRUTH: The Navy is now guarding its ships/bases these days.
110) Best personalized license plate I: "1775." It's on the commandant's car.
TRUTH: Big deal. You don't win wars with license plates. And the U.S. Army--not the marines have won our nation's wars.
111) Best personalized license plate II: "SM OF MC," Sergeant Major of the marine corps Harold Overstreet's four-wheel drive Chevy Blazer truck.
TRUTH: You don't win wars with license plates.
112) The Chief of Naval Operations rides in a Lincoln Town Car. Commandant Gen. Carl E. Mundy Jr. rides in a sporty Chrysler LHS sedan.
TRUTH: More of our tax dollars being wasted. You don't win wars with sedans.
113) When the nation goes to war, the press covers the marine corps. During the Gulf War, there were more than 90,000 marines in the region of a total force of 650,000. But the Corps outpaced the Army, 293 to 271, on articles about the ground war in four major newspapers. As journalist and author John Fialka put it: "If the PR rivalry between the two services . . . had been a basketball game, the score would have been Marines 149, Army 10."
TRUTH: The U.S. Army killed more enemy soldiers than the MC did on the ground/air. It won more battles. Only an imbecile counts articles of PR and sees it as a competition. The MC is a more vain organization than the U.S. Army, but if you are good you don't have to brag.
114) Best Heroes I: Smedley D. Butler. With a name like Smedley, he had to be tough, in self-defense. The Army rejected him, but by lying about his age, he got a commission from the marine corps in 1898, at age 16. From the Philippines to Haiti, he was an expert in suppressing revolution. His blunt style was pure marine, and probably cost him a job as Philadelphia's public safety director after his first retirement and a bid for the Senate after his second.
TRUTH: Audie Murphy was rejected by the mc, but went on to win more decorations than any Soldier or marine in WWII--or Butler, too.
115) Best Heroes II: Chesty Puller. It's more than the name. He started in the Corps with a reserve commission and was released in the drawdown after World War I. He then enlisted as a corporal, served in Haiti and received his second commission in 1924. He retired in 1955 a lieutenant general, the most decorated marine in history, and probably the most colorful as well.
TRUTH: You don't win wars by "color". Puller was a frontal assault butcher that sent his men to needless deaths. Puller is no comparison to MacArthur, Ridgway, Gavin, Chamberlain, Grant, Sherman, Lee, Patton, Mitchell, shall I continue? He was a simplistic idiot.
116) Best Heroes III: Lewis Puller Jr., Chesty's son. He joined to follow in his father's footsteps, lost both legs in battle, and went on to become a Pulitzer Prizewinning author. He ended his own life this year, and he's sorely missed.
TRUTH: The landmine ended his MC footsteps...an alcoholic who took his own life, a coward's act. Or as a MARINE, thats ok? He should have valued himself and his life REGARDLESS OF HIS DISABILITY. Had he had better Judaeo-Christian values he wouldn't have lived such a tragic life. He should be a warning to us all to NOT WORSHIP THE MC.
117) Best Heroes IV: "Manila John" Basilone. A true gunfighter from the word go. The first enlisted marine in World War II to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Won it for his heroic efforts on Guadalcanal. Later killed on Iwo Jima, and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
TRUTH: The U.S. Army won more CMHs than the mc in the nation's wars. What Audie Murphy did on the burning tank destroyer and with map/radio impressive.
118) All the marines who won the Congressional Medals of Honor. There are 293 in all.
TRUTH: The U.S. Army has more CMH winners.
119) Best greeting. Semper Fi, Mac!
TRUTH: "Airborne!" is better.
120) Best show of pride. After the 1982 Beirut Bombing, Marine Corps Commandant P.X. Kelly visited a wounded marine in the hospital to present his Purple Heart. Covered by tubes and unable to speak, the Marine simply asked for pad and pen. On it he wrote: "Semper Fi."
TRUTH: If Kelly had done his job he'd not have had to bury 250+ marine dead and write such words on a broken marine's body.
121) Best recruiting station: Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, 1775. It's a bar, no less.
TRUTH: Puller must have hung out there.
122) Only armed force with a beer named in its honor: Tun Tavern Beer.
TRUTH: AA loves MC
123) Best description: Soldiers of the Sea.
TRUTH: Is this like "Tuna of the sea"?
124) Best slang for a Navy ship: LHA -- Luxury Hotel Afloat.
TRUTH: Why don't you start calling things what they are and understanding them instead of hiding ignorance with trash talk?
125) Best marine quote from the Gulf War: ``I sure hope the Iraqis are good lovers, because they sure can't fight.''
TRUTH: The fight was taken out of them by the U.S. Air Force.. no mention of this from a marine.
126) Best acronyms I: The MEU (SOC). Say it out loud and it says what it means. Sock it to 'em.
TRUTH: Sounds like AD HOC, unable to perform special operations unless we are desperate and cannot have the pros at USSOCOM do it.
127) Best acronyms II: SPIE rigging. It stands for Special Insertion, Extraction. It's what they do when they're saving the day.
TRUTH: You don't win wars by acronymns. FRIES is a better system than SPIES. You can insert and extract with same rope.
128) Hollywood loves marines.
TRUTH: Media whores love $
129) ``Sands of Iwo Jima.''
TRUTH: Battle that was ill fought and un-necessary.
130) "The Wind and the Lion."
TRUTH: MC was unable to fight another enemy army, only do small rescues. Today's Army Airborne can do it all.
131) "Heartbreak Ridge."
TRUTH: Distorted truth about Grenada giving mc credit for what U.S. Army Rangers did when they rescued the medical students. SEAL Team 6 that was trapped in the Governor;'s house surrounded by Cuban BTR armored cars. Not mc force recon. 99% of the fighting on Grenada was done by U.S. Army Soldiers not marines.
132) "The Flying Leathernecks."
TRUTH: Teaches that close air support should come from the ground from mud fighters like the USAF A-10.
133) "The D.I."
TRUTH: Where S&M, mind-game boot camp nonsense became glorified. Awful movie about awful DI, Webb. MC is in trouble today from this same bullshit.
134) "Death Before Dishonor"
TRUTH: Phony movie trying to portray marines doing things they do not do in real life.
135) And television loves marines: TRUTH: disease likes sores
136) "Baa Baa Black Sheep"
TRUTH: Same as Flying Leathernecks. Boyington was screwed by MC bureaucracy, now we make him a saint for the mc's uses. How convenient.
137) "Gomer Pyle, USMC"
TRUTH: Awful show showing sterotypical robot marine.
138) ``Major Dad''
TRUTH: Awful show where you see headquarters pukes in dress uniforms posturing. You dont win wars with dress uniforms. Better movies are:
A Few Good Men: How come no mention of this? Because it shows the real mc and how its full of its own excrement, destroying people
Bridge Too FAR: Shows tactics/operational art's importance not just blind valor
Forrest Gump: shows the need for a humble, MORAL compass
Hamburger Hill: Best Vietnam war movie
Green Berets: John Wayne better as a SF Soldier
Clear and Present Danger: Shows real world where Army SOF is first to fight
The Peacemaker: Again Army SOF fights the real battles in today's post cold war world
139) Heroes. The 40,000 marines who gave their lives on the fields of battle since the Revolutionary War.
TRUTH: The U.S. Army has lost more men, and had more heroes. Over 500,000 just from the Civil War--which the USMC had no part in. We wouldn't be a free nation, united today without the U.S. Army. The MC myth is a post WWII invention.
140) Scarlet stripe on NCO and officer trousers. They're not just sharp, they serve a point: The stripes represent blood shed in battle.
TRUTH: WOW. I'm impressed. NOT. We dont win wars with uniforms. However, spiffy. If it takes vanity to make a man die, then he's a weak, immature individual who doesn't belong in a life/death situation.
141) The Book of Remembrance. Stored at the post chapel at Quantico, it lists the name, rank and date of death of all marines and sailors who served with marines and who gave their life in Vietnam.
TRUTH: Better to spend our time DOING SOMETHING TODAY to win the next war. The USMC is a false religious cult of self-worship. This is disgusting.
142) Famous proverb. A young recruit asked the D.I., ``Sergeant, who carries the flag in battle?'' The reply: ``Son, every marine carries the flag in battle.''
TRUTH: How comforting. To hell with the rest of the services...marines as glory hogs.
143) The highest-ranking active-duty woman in the services wears THREE STARS!! She's LtGen. Carol A. Mutter, USMC.
TRUTH: Again, who cares. Irrelevant.
144) Notable quotable I. "A ship without marines is like a coat without buttons." -- Adm. David G. Farragut.
TRUTH: Then there are a lot of ships without the trappings of marinedom. They ain't suffering one iota.
145) Notable quotable II. When the marines found themselves surrounded by Chinese troops near the "Frozen Chosin" during the Korean War, a marine officer summed it up for his men. "Good. Now I can shoot in all directions."
TRUTH: Maybe we should have marines in charge more often so we can have more retreats. The marines cut & run, leaving the U.S. Army to fight off the Communists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1XtSpy9wrI
146) Notable quotable III. ``Uncommon valor was a common virtue.'' -- Adm. Chester Nimitz, leader of Pacific forces in World War II.
TRUTH: If the people in charge had COMMON SENSE then there would have been less need of uncommon valor, ohhh...that rains on the marine corps ego parade. Sorry, to die in battle is glorious.
147) Notable quotable IV. ``Retreat . . . Hell! We just got here.'' -- Col. Wendell ``Whispering Buck'' Neville, fighting in France during World War I.
TRUTH: "Nuts!" from BG Anthony MacAuliff, U.S. Army 101st Airborne division, at Bostogne took more guts and was more memorable...or Chamberlain's speech on the road to Gettysburg.
148) Notable quotable V. ``Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?'' -- Sgt. Dan Daly, World War I.
TRUTH: The essence of mc bullshit. Dying is cool.
149) Notable quotable VI. ``The raising of the flag on Mount Surabachi means a marine corps for the next 500 years.'' -- James Forrestal, who was then secretary of the Navy.
TRUTH: Not if the mc keeps screwing up like it has for the last 2 decades. Forrestal threw himself out a window
150) Fleet submission I. ``My 10-year-old is proud when he's teased about his mother wearing combat boots'' -- anonymous MARINE MOTHER.
TRUTH: You dont win wars with sayings.
151) Fleet submission II. ``marine corps spirit and purpose define American resolve and intent.'' -- Carrol Childers, a CIVILIAN employee at Quantico's Amphibious Warfare School.
TRUTH: That really moves me. NOT.
152) Leadership. The corps trains its leaders young and expects a lot out of them. And, gosh darn it, they get what they ask for.
TRUTH: They ask for and get co-dependant robots.
153) Fleet submission III. ``Those hardcharging NCOs that have done so much with so little for so long.'' -- Capt. James Lopez, Quantico, Va.
TRUTH: The real saying is about people doing so much for so little that they are qualified to do anything with nothing etc. ad nauseum. If the MC is to steal someone's quote, do it right.
154) Fleet submission IV. ``The smell of gunpowder in the morning on the rifle range.'' -- Cpl. Bradley Cameron, Quantico.
TRUTH: Stolen from movie "Apocalypse NOW" no mc in that one.
155) Fleet submission V. ``It's my life.'' -- GS-8 Diane Pierce. TRUTH: If the mc is her life shes in serious trouble. The mc is not the catch-all, end all of human existence.
156) Fleet submission VI. ``The feeling of belonging. Whenever you go, there will always be someone you know, someone with something in common and someone willing to lend a hand'' -- anonymous marine.
TRUTH: You are only treated well if you worship the mc party line.
157) Fleet submission VII. ``The Corps is the world's biggest fraternity. All our present and past members are, and always be, members of the Semper Fi fraternity. And unlike other fraternities, ours is open to women.'' -- CWO Mark Roulette.
TRUTH: The U.S. Army has more opportunities than the mc can ever brag about it. The mc is a religious cult, that hazes like a fraternity.
158) Fleet submission VIII. ``Knowing when you're in need, a marine will be there.'' -- SSgt. Cheryl Oban, Quantico.
TRUTH: to cut your cable car wires!
159) Hollywood loves marines II.
TRUTH: Holywood: a good place of American wholesome values: NOT!
160) Don Adams. TRUTH: Boy, he scares me. NOT!
161) Charlton Heston.
TRUTH: He was in the U.S. Army in Alaska in WWII read his bioagraphy.
162) Bob Keeshan (Capt. Kangaroo).
TRUTH: Hated his sick show as a kid. Something demented about the whole thing.
163) Lee Marvin.
TRUTH: Good man.
164) Steve McQueen.
TRUTH: Good actor, but NEVER PLAYED ANY GYRENES IN THE MOVIES, always U.S. ARMY Soldiers and Aviators...What does this tell you? Guess who KILLED him?
The dumbass USMC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen
Shortly before his death, McQueen had given a medical interview in which he blamed his condition on asbestos exposure.[54] While McQueen felt that asbestos used in movie soundstage insulation and race-drivers' protective suits and helmets could have been involved, he believed his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging from pipes aboard a troop ship during his time in the marines.
165) Burt Reynolds.
TRUTH: Really vain, shallow person.
166) George C. Scott.
TRUTH: Best role was Army General George S. Patton. Remember the real Patton is more to be admired than the actor.
167) Gene Hackman.
TRUTH: More ignorant name-dropping. Hackman was mistreated badly by the marines and tells everyone how corrupt and narcissistic they are.
168) Tax advantages I. VHA & BAQ -- your housing allowances -- are tax-free.
TRUTH: applies to ALL U.S.service members. Only an ignoramus marine liar would try to claim this as a marine boast.
169) Tax advantages II. You don't pay tax at the exchange either.
TRUTH: same as above
170) marine wives. They put up with a lot but they have their limits. See No. 94.
TRUTH: weak, co-dependants.
171) Fleet submission IX. ``It is a family.'' -- anonymous marine.
TRUTH: More like a religious cult...like the Manson "family"
172) Fleet submission X. ``It teaches us to be strong people both mentally and physically.'' -- Cpl. Maria Retan, Quantico, Va.
TRUTH: Makes co-dependants with ego on their sleeves.
173) Fleet submission XI. ``I love the marine corps for those intangible possessions that cannot be issued: Pride, honor, integrity and being able to carry on the traditions for generations of warriors past. After I have done what I can for the Corps, I can say that I was a marine'' -- Cpl. Jeff Sornij.
TRUTH: Sick individual, here. You should say you are a good HUMAN BEING. If you need to be a marine to have personal value, you are by definition a co-dependant.
174) Fleet submission XII. ``The pride of going home on leave, putting on the dress blues and everyone knowing you're a member of the world's finest fighting force.'' -- Sgt. Chase Gilbert, Laurel Bay, S.C.
TRUTH: The real professionals in the know are not so impressed by marines or dress blues or constant fabricated and false boasts...
175) Up-to-date fashions at overseas Exchanges.
TRUTH: weak
176) Congress loves the Corps. The congressional ``mafia'' of former marines now in positions of power or influence over the defense budget includes:
177) Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Calif.). The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is sometimes lampooned as a dovish cutter of defense budgets. But he's a former marine, too. And once a marine, always a marine, as the saying goes.
TRUTH: Dellums has done more to destroy the defense budget of the U.S. than any other. His anti-military attitude no doubt comes from his experiencing MC bs.
178) Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), chairman of the Senate Armed Services subcommittee military readiness/defense infrastructure.
TRUTH: He was a better pilot than legislator
179) Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.) All right, he may not be reelected Nov. 8.
TRUTH: Liberal democrat who has wrong ideas for America;'s defense.
180) Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee.
TRUTH: another Liberal Dem. But one who HAS OPPOSED MARINE CIVILIAN ATROCITIES IN IRAQ. No USMC cheerleader.
181) Sen. John Warner, R-Va., ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and armed service committee member who is a former Navy secretary. He served in the Navy in 1944-46, became a civilian, and then went back to do it right: He joined the marine corps and served from 1950-52.
TRUTH: The snide comment about the Navy makes me and anyone mature sick. I cannot imagine Senator Warner saying this.
182) Other former marines in Congress include: Rep. Lane Evans, D-Ill.; Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Montana; Rep. Gerald Soloman, R-N.Y.; Rep. Paul McHale, D-Pa.; Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., a former Navy secretary; Sen. Jim Sasser, DTenn.; Rep. Frank Tejeda, D-Texas; Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala.; Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark.; Rep. Matthew Martinez, D-Calif.; Rep. Al McCandless, R-Calif.; Rep. David Skaggs, DColo.; Rep. Dan Schaefer, R-Colo.; Rep. Andy Jacobs, D-Ind.; Rep. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, R-Md.; Rep. Thomas J. Manton, D-N.Y.; Rep. Amo Houghton, R-N.Y.; and Rep. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo.,
TRUTH: These are some of the idiots who excuse away mc atrocities like the boy shot on the border by bored marines on counter-drug ops. They are the ones perpetuating the mc "sacred cow" which weaken America's defense. We now know who NOT to re-elect.
183) And finally, pulling strings for marines behind the scenes on Capitol Hill are two marine-friendly power brokers: marine corps Reserve Brig. Gen. Arnold Punaro, staff director for the Senate Armed Services Committee, and retired Lt. Col. P.T. Henry, the staff director for the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on force requirements and personnel.
TRUTH: more people whose loyalty is to the mc first not America, pushing for expensive crap that doesn't work like bloated surface ships full of gyrnes waiting to die by precision guided munitions, V-22s and EFVs...nothing to brag about there!
184) Global presence, global reach. As the Hymn notes, so spread out are marines around the globe that some can watch the sun set while others are watching it rise.
TRUTH: The first-to-fight U.S. Army and Air Force are in more places as we speak than the MC. The thin mc presence in a MEU-SOC is a token one, unable to do much more than saber-rattle.
185) Despite their service to U.S. presidents, no marine has ever been a president. Now that's smart!
TRUTH: Smart move US! a mc prez's loyalty would be to the mc, not America and its Constitution.
186) Respect. The State Department chose marines, not soldiers, to protect our embassies.
TRUTH: they have done real well havent they? The Embassy in Saigon over-run in 1968 ... Iran in 1980? If I were them I'd be looking elsewhere.
187) Good taste in gifts. Wanna know how much a marine missed his family during a deployment? Check out the china and toys in his seabag on the return trip, and then look at his credit card bill.
TRUTH: How many wars do you win by consumer purchases?
188) The 1st and 15th of each month. Gotta pay for those good gifts.
TRUTH: Desperate here. The sky is blue, too. Brag on that too for the MC.
189) marines are winners. Consider, for example:
TRUTH: Are they? .. drunk co-dependants that kill people. Lee Harvey Oswald, set up to be a fall guy for the JFK assasination. Charles Whitman who shot dozens from a tower in Texas. Oliver North, lied to Congress....all the innocent people killed by mc bungling?
190) Tarawa.
TRUTH: WWII cluster-screw. Blood bath. Bloated Bodies floating in the lagoon.
191) Saipan.
TRUTH: How many marines at Normandy D-Day? None.
192) Guadalcanal.
TRUTH: WWII Pacific was taken by the U.S. Army, not the MC
193) Tripoli.
TRUTH: Minor 1805 skirmish. Where was MC at MAJOR BATTLES won by U.S. Army? Buna? Gettysburg? Yorktown? Saratoga? San Jaun Hill? Pork Chop Hill? Basra? Panama?
194) Belleau Wood.
TRUTH: Most American WWI battles were won by the U.S. Army, not MC: Meuse-Argonne...St. Mihiel...
195) Chosin.
TRUTH: Retreat. Want to start a gypsy caravan that cuts & runs, call MC!
196) Hue City.
TRUTH: Most of the Vietnam War's battles were fought and won by the U.S. Army, not the mc
197) Peleliu.
TRUTH: WWII again. Minor island. Could have been bypassed.
198) Leyte Gulf.
TRUTH: Naval Battle, not a MC battle. Wake up!
199) Guam.
TRUTH: Taken over by the Japanese from mc
200) Tinian.
TRUTH: Sicily, Anzio, Aachen, Paris, New Guinea, LZ Xray, no mc!
201) Iwo Jima.
TRUTH: Should have been bypassed had we put emphasis to bomb Japan from China instead of the Pacific islands, had to give mc something to do.
202) Okinawa.
TRUTH: Was a 80% U.S. Army fight. My father was there.
203) The Officer's Sam Browne Belt.
TRUTH: EWWWW!! Lets bring it to the next firefight. NOT.
204) Top Guns I: The marine corps rifle team. After a record-setting performance at the interservice rifle championships in July, the marine team blew away the 1,200 civilian and military rivals at the U.S. Nationals in August. No doubt about it, marines are the best riflemen in the country.
TRUTH: The last I checked the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit won last year's competition. What matters is the actual war fighting units. Army units shoot at moving pop-up targets like real enemy soldiers. marines shoot at known distances at non-moving paper. MC needs bullhorns to ask enemy to stand still in the next war.
205) Top Guns II: MSgt. Donnie L. Heuman. After 17 years of competitive rifle shooting, he took top individual honors at this year's Interservice Rifle Championships, shooting a record-breaking 995 out of a possible 1,000 points with 50 bull's-eyes. His nearest competitor was nine points and 10 bull's-eyes behind.
TRUTH: The guy America sends to the Olympics is an Army SGT. Where are the jarheads?
206) Top Guns III: The marine corps pistol team. They won the U.S. National trophy six years running, establishing themselves as the champion to be beat. They were second this year, but don't expect the trophy to stay in anyone else's hands for long.
TRUTH: WHO beat them?? HMM...Could it be??? OHH I don't know......THE U.S. ARMY???? HOW MANY WARS HAVE BEEN WON BY DRILL AND SHOOTING TEAMS? NONE.
207) Top Guns IV: marine snipers. Oneshot, one kill, one thousand yards.
TRUTH: Why America uses Delta Force Snipers when the chips are really down.
208) The 174,158 men and women in marine corps uniforms as of Oct. 1, 1994.
TRUTH: Too many for 3 measley divisions and air wings. What a multi-billion dollar waste. 174,158 isnt an elite unit by any standard.
209) Top Guns V: marine corps wrestlers and boxers. They don't use weapons, and they don't need them, they are regular medalists at the Olympic Games.
TRUTH: How many wars have we won with boxing or wrestling? NONE.
210) Navy chow. It's better on the ship than in the field.
TRUTH: But you called them names earlier. Maybe they shouldn't feed you.
211) Navy chaplains. You gotta love a man of the cloth when the cloth is camouflaged. One example: Lt. Cmdr. Dennis Rocheford, wounded twice in Vietnam as a marine infantryman, is now a Navy chaplain aboard the USS Wasp.
TRUTH: Does he read the Bible to you? Verses like being humble, not being arrogant? Or does he just have you sing the mc hymn?
212) MREs. You hate to love 'em, but when you're hot and sweaty and in the field, nothing satisfies like the beef frankfurters and beans.
TRUTH: U.S. Army created MREs
213) marines take care of their own. On the battlefield, nobody's left behind -- dead or alive -- and the homefront is always secure.
TRUTH: Right. Like Beirut. Truck bomb rolls right into the building, killing 265+. Boy, I feel really safe with marines on the watch. Koh Tang, 10 marines left to be tortured and murdered by the Khymer Rouge.
214) Commitment and devotion. "You gotta love it,'' says Col. Richard D. Stearns, commanding officer, marine corps Air Station, Beaufort, S.C. ``Just liking it won't get you through the day." TRUTH: he the guy who some Marine SGT came in and shot?
215) Image. ``I'm inspired by the integrity of marines: uplifted by the pride, focus, discipline, flexibility and motivation to do the right thing in thebest way. I'm honored that, by service to the country, they are serving citizens like me. All this, and they are fun colleagues and co-workers.'' -- Jean Forrest, CIVILIAN instructional systems specialist, marine corps institute.
TRUTH: I doubt she'd say anything bad about her employer $$$.
216) Birthday Ball I: The cake.
TRUTH: Lets bring cake to the next war.
217) Birthday Ball II: Remembering all those marines who gave their life for their service and their country.
TRUTH: Note they died for mc first not America
218) Birthday Ball III: Seeing who's the oldest and youngest Marine in your unit.
TRUTH: and dumbest.
219) Ooh-rah!
TRUTH: Couldn't think of another reason so repeat one from before? I can think of a million reasons to shut down the MC and/or do a major enema on it. The first place is the brain-washed mindset that these 219 lies represent. Anyone in love with his own excrement is bound to pick up a disease.