I always thought that infamous line "I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around" showed a remarkable lack of homophobia for a military drill instructor in the seventies.
Anyhow, good for the USMC, certainly good for their PR. Perhaps not in some circles, but those likely aren't the circles where the USMC's PR needed a boost in the first place.
Anyhow, good for the USMC, certainly good for their PR. Perhaps not in some circles, but those likely aren't the circles where the USMC's PR needed a boost in the first place.
USMC first to fight
- 21/09/2011 03:36:17 PM
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In my imagination it went down something like this:
- 21/09/2011 04:22:08 PM
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There could be some truth to that
- 21/09/2011 04:34:36 PM
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They need military chaplains, right? *NM*
- 21/09/2011 04:36:06 PM
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not in the marines
- 21/09/2011 04:45:48 PM
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I had a friend who was a Navy chaplain attached to the Marine Corps.
- 21/09/2011 07:23:10 PM
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I thought nothing could make the Swedish "dress blues" look worse than it already does.
- 21/09/2011 04:40:08 PM
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Very interesting, but encouraging.
- 21/09/2011 08:28:38 PM
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The answer on women in combat:
- 21/09/2011 10:07:04 PM
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I still worry about how the men will react.
- 22/09/2011 02:33:15 AM
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Well, you can worry about what might happen.
- 22/09/2011 09:17:02 AM
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and how much actual combat have these units seen?
- 22/09/2011 02:40:50 PM
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Sweden has not been involved in many hot conflicts during those years, no
- 22/09/2011 05:04:26 PM
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The real test will be when a country with a non-discriminatory military fights a major war.
- 22/09/2011 04:00:12 PM
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The other branches could benefit in a lot of ways by trying to emulate the Marines
- 22/09/2011 03:25:16 PM
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- 22/09/2011 03:25:16 PM
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Probably.
- 22/09/2011 04:33:49 PM
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The Lynndie England case makes my point
- 22/09/2011 06:16:32 PM
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The Lynndie England case is debatable.
- 22/09/2011 07:28:53 PM
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sorry not interested in arguing rhetoric *NM*
- 22/09/2011 09:01:04 PM
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The US Army Field Manual is policy, not rhetoric.
- 22/09/2011 09:44:58 PM
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no Joel the rheotoric is all you
- 22/09/2011 10:45:29 PM
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Quoting someone is not rhetoric; I am honestly flabbergasted that we are still debating that fact.
- 22/09/2011 11:12:29 PM
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This kind of reminds me of Full Metal Jacket...
- 21/09/2011 10:49:57 PM
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Re: This kind of reminds me of Full Metal Jacket...
- 21/09/2011 11:14:38 PM
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"I bet you could suck a golfball through a garden hose" was NOT a compliment? 
- 22/09/2011 11:25:43 PM
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- 22/09/2011 11:25:43 PM
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The only really great thing about that movies is he sounded so much like a drill instructor
- 22/09/2011 03:01:13 PM
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I doubt the sort of person who is interested in the Marines will particularly care about being PC 
*NM*
- 22/09/2011 10:34:11 PM
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*NM*
- 22/09/2011 10:34:11 PM
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no but they care a lot about having PC forced on the them which happens all the time
- 22/09/2011 10:41:13 PM
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