[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
You don’t tear up every time you hear “battle hymn of the republic”, banners waving high for the motherland?
Maybe I misjudged you.[/quote]
No, I don’t cry when the National Anthem is played. I actually think it’s used too often reducing it’s significance.
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USMC, you are aware, aren’t you, that Battle Hymn of the Republic is not, in fact, our national anthem?
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote] LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
I had no issues with my service nor did I seek early release. I did observe many people unnecessarily punished for wanting out. I was really close to someone who worked at the JAG processing these people in and out of the brig for desertion. In the long run it is cheaper and more efficient for them to do nothing - stop paying them, stop devoting resources to keeping them, etc.
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This is nothing to do with what you initially said. You do this all the time. You say something blatantly ridiculous and outrageous to try to rile people up then when pressed on specifics you twist and turn and start talking about something else. [/quote]
There is nothing ridiculous about defending someone’s right to leave their “voluntary” job.
Yep. And I still do. What of it?
That’s what happens when they chase people that should have been promptly removed. It’s not like this guy freaked out from out of nowhere. There were signs and the appropriate precautions could have been taken before any of this went down.
I think they are still looking for a “few good men”.
If keeping the military as cohesive as possible is important to its mission then it makes no sense to try and force disciplinary actions for people who should just be shown the door.
It probably takes more than your 3 year-old reasoning the get this.
At first it is volunteer and then it becomes volun-told.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
I know this happens in boot camp. If a recruit isn’t a real marine then quitting doesn’t mean anything. And it certainly doesn’t mean anything to that lance corporal cleaning his rifle in the sand in Afghanistan.
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A recruit isn’t a real Marine and quitting means absolutely nothing to the Coprs except it’s a waste of money. There’s a huge difference between a Lance Corporal and a recruit and I don’t give a shit if quitting means nothing to the Lance Corporal. [/quote]
Well that isn’t what I was saying. Just that by time a person makes lcpl they are already entrenched in the ideals - recruit depot is a distant memory.[/quote]
Entrenched in what ideals?[/quote]
I don’t know, former Sgt of marines, you tell me.
If not for lcpls Sgts would have nothing to do. Fact.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
You don’t tear up every time you hear “battle hymn of the republic”, banners waving high for the motherland?
Maybe I misjudged you.[/quote]
No, I don’t cry when the National Anthem is played. I actually think it’s used too often reducing it’s significance.
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USMC, you are aware, aren’t you, that Battle Hymn of the Republic is not, in fact, our national anthem?[/quote]
Lol, ya. I’m not sure what I was thinking in my hast to respond.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
I know this happens in boot camp. If a recruit isn’t a real marine then quitting doesn’t mean anything. And it certainly doesn’t mean anything to that lance corporal cleaning his rifle in the sand in Afghanistan.
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A recruit isn’t a real Marine and quitting means absolutely nothing to the Coprs except it’s a waste of money. There’s a huge difference between a Lance Corporal and a recruit and I don’t give a shit if quitting means nothing to the Lance Corporal. [/quote]
Well that isn’t what I was saying. Just that by time a person makes lcpl they are already entrenched in the ideals - recruit depot is a distant memory.[/quote]
Entrenched in what ideals?[/quote]
I don’t know, former Sgt of marines, you tell me.
If not for lcpls Sgts would have nothing to do. Fact. [/quote]
If I knew what you meant I wouldn’t have used one of those fancy question mark thingies.
Not a fact.
It seems one of the released prisoners in the Bergdahl exchange tried to contact the Taliban.
I brought this thread back up because I feel it is an outrage that Berghdal was released due to a prisoner swap with Taliban terrorist prisoners and the US government will not respond to an Iranian prisoner exchange to release a reporter, a Marine & others held by the Iranian government. It’s a disgrace!
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Meanwhile, check out this article:
"Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian has been convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Iran, according to state-run media.
Rezaian was reportedly facing up to 20 years, but the sentence was not specified on Monday.
He has already been behind bars for more than a year. Rezaian was taken into custody in July 2014 and later charged with espionage.
The Post has denied all the claims against him.
On Monday, the newspaper’s executive editor Marty Baron said the ‘guilty verdict’ announcement ‘represents an outrageous injustice.’"