That would do it. Its fun to talk about sometimes though. I guess your close to my age from the dates that you indicated.
We finally surrendered to SOCOM
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Psychomorph said:
Don't you mean the Frankensteined SPAS-12 mated with a Thompson SMG?
I forget what the Smart Gun was built from.
5eleven said:
I was at 1st Marine Division from 82 -92...Im 40. Nice to chat with you dogface...
Thanks for your service!. You know, I still remember the hushed feeling I would get when I would have to go to Division Headquarters at Mainside and you stand there in the place off the lobby, you can almost miss it, and when you walk in you get this eary calm feeling in this sort of alcoved area, I can remember feeling really little and insignificant sitting there starring at the original battle streamers and colors from such places as Gaudalcanal, Pelelui, Inchon, Chosin...and I would just stare at all the medals of honor and all the pictures of the guys whose names now have become streets on base. It really is a grounding experience.
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Anyway, yeah, thanks for your service too. And I do remember doing a huge ARTEP with one of the Marine Divisions in I think '88 or '89, a huge two week massive field exercise that wasn't at JRTC. Just a little funny I like to get in to get Marines riled up. Every time I meet a Marine I ask them the following questions, of which I ALWAYS get an affirmative response to at least one (and I work with several mind you):
Do you have:
A - A giant EG&A and/or Bulldog throw blanket/pillow on your bed?
B - An EG&A, Bulldog, Semper Fi, or USMC tattoo somewhere on your body?
C - Your honorable discharge hanging on your wall?
D - AN EG&A, USMC, or Semper Fi bumper sticker on your car?
E - A plush grey stuffed Bulldog with campaign hat somewhere in your house or in your car?
F - A calendar marked somewhere in your house or on your person that marks the Marine Corps birthday?
G - Follow up to F:
Do you A - take the day off and get drunk?
B - go out in the evening with some USMC pals and get drunk?
H - Find yourself yelling "OOOOORAH" while in a drunken stupor and watching old war films, especially those starring John Wayne?
Okay, the last one is a joke, but if you can't answer yes to at least one of A-G, you're a liar, and therefore, NOT a jarhead.
hehe, classic. I dont have anything to speak of except the eagle globe and anchor tatood on my right arm (what a shocker huh), with a "Semper Fidelis" on top and of course "USMC" on the bottom. It is something that has been a benefit from time to time ie: cop sees the tatoo as I purposely hike up my sleeves and doesnt give me the speeding ticket, or some old head bartender gives me a free drink...little ****. In the summer I always forget about it and when Im at the beach sometimes I get stares...I can see people trying to match up the huge scars I have on my side and back and leg with the tatoo (I got pretty ****ed up in Beruit)...it always makes me jsut grin a little.
Oh and no self respecting leatherneck should need the calander marked for 10 November. Ive only actually attended one marine Ball for the occasion. I took down all of my warrants and citations from the wall years ago...never did have my Honorable discharge hanging. I do still have my shellback and golden shellback certificates up though and thats only because they are so ****in cool looking..
I did do operation Team Spirit once...which you probably know is a joint forces operation in Korea and I also did a couple operations in the phillipines with SF I cant remember if they were stationed there or at Kadena air base on the rock. Good guys. I remember doing an operation with seals once, we were on ship and I remember being embarrassed because they ahd so many cool new toys and equipment and we had the oldest rustiest crap ever yet we were doing the same op.
Oh and no self respecting leatherneck should need the calander marked for 10 November. Ive only actually attended one marine Ball for the occasion. I took down all of my warrants and citations from the wall years ago...never did have my Honorable discharge hanging. I do still have my shellback and golden shellback certificates up though and thats only because they are so ****in cool looking..
I did do operation Team Spirit once...which you probably know is a joint forces operation in Korea and I also did a couple operations in the phillipines with SF I cant remember if they were stationed there or at Kadena air base on the rock. Good guys. I remember doing an operation with seals once, we were on ship and I remember being embarrassed because they ahd so many cool new toys and equipment and we had the oldest rustiest crap ever yet we were doing the same op.
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Were you in Beirut during the barracks bombing in '83? Is that how you got injured? Just curious. If it's none of my business, tell me so.
I'll never forget this picture when I was in High School of the bombings......I think it was in TIME magazine.
I'll never forget this picture when I was in High School of the bombings......I think it was in TIME magazine.
I was A company 2nd platoon 2nd Recon Battalion, Battalion Landing team 2/8 part of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit. Very first duty station...They sent us to lebenon as soon as I got out of amphibious recon school...We were also assisting AnglCo (Air naval Gunfire Liaison Company) in calling the shots off the uss jersey. That place was a **** story in every way. Yeah, thats where I got banged up. I went right to 1st Mardiv from there and pretty much stayed there.
I wasnt in the barracks, not how I got hurt. We helped get the guys out though. The whole thing really pissed me off. We were awarded a Nobel Peace prize in 1988 (all the Multi-National peackeepers for all operations). Some peace.
Edit: I was 19 years old
Im trying to post an imaged pic of me and some grunts from 2/8 showing the blasted up barracks in the backround , I have another pic of a shiite morter crew that we quickly disposed of but Im not sure If I can post it...it pretty gruesome (forum rules) but I dont know how to post it. When I click and drag nothing happens. How do I post it.
I wasnt in the barracks, not how I got hurt. We helped get the guys out though. The whole thing really pissed me off. We were awarded a Nobel Peace prize in 1988 (all the Multi-National peackeepers for all operations). Some peace.
Edit: I was 19 years old
Im trying to post an imaged pic of me and some grunts from 2/8 showing the blasted up barracks in the backround , I have another pic of a shiite morter crew that we quickly disposed of but Im not sure If I can post it...it pretty gruesome (forum rules) but I dont know how to post it. When I click and drag nothing happens. How do I post it.
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If you can't post, PM it.....or if you want PM me, and I'll give you an email to send it to. I'd really like to see it.
Besides, I can't see it being any more gruesome I guess than some of le garbage I've seen on here before.
Besides, I can't see it being any more gruesome I guess than some of le garbage I've seen on here before.
I have a whole pic book of just about every field op and tons of pics. Due o this conversation I recently pulled out some of the volumes of photos I only have a handful of imaged pics, cant scan anymore cuz when I switched to WIN XP my old visioneer scanner wouldnt work...they just dont make any drivers for the old thing to work with xp. I have the funniest pick I have been wanting to scan of us contansly ****in with a new boot Lt. from supply. We would sit inside the ASP (ammunition supply point) where we would provide security for the explosive ordnance sometimes and smoke...the boot lewy would get out of his mind hesterical...soooo funny. Id sit there on a crate of Bangalores next to all the rounds, shaped charges, det cord, c4, dynamite, ap/at mines etc and smoke. Now anyone who is worth their salt would know that military explosives are basically Marine proof, you can lightem on fire, drop em, shoot them and nothing unless you explode the booster charge its not going off and the blast caps are always kept at least 50 yards away from the HE tent, buried in the ground yet, but if you can imagine a boot supply LT. seeing a bunch of grunts laying on top of all that firepower and smoking...too funny. I did finally get dressed down by our Company 1st Shirt...but only because we were causing such an incident with this new annapolis graduate...Im sure that guy remembers us to this day.
I digress, We didnt do the shootin in the pic I mentioned, Cobra Gunships. Nothin handier than a radio...we never had to worry about that resource not being there. Its not like in video games, if you have that resource available, always always use it, gunship pilots are more than happy to comply. We would just stay in comm with the air and clip a couple tracers in fire them off to pinpoint target as well as let them know where we were...they shoot back a little...gunship thunders on in ussually at the rear of the bad guys and within about 5 seconds of thunder another crew served weapon killed. They do leave a mess though. By the time you get back out of the field you cant take enough showers to get the stench of dirt and carbon off.
Ill figure it out (getting pics up) ive dine it before. It just didnt let me right away so I just went on and did something else without really trying to problem solve the situation. Oh, The gunships would come in handy when Israeli troops (who we has a very very uneasy realationship with, they hated that we were stickin our noses in their business) were being pains in the asses. It wasnt uncommon for them to try to block a street patrol with an armored vehicle or fire in our direction, they actually thought it was funny until somone would comm in a gunship. With that hanging over our shoulders, literally, we became the big dog instantly.
I digress, We didnt do the shootin in the pic I mentioned, Cobra Gunships. Nothin handier than a radio...we never had to worry about that resource not being there. Its not like in video games, if you have that resource available, always always use it, gunship pilots are more than happy to comply. We would just stay in comm with the air and clip a couple tracers in fire them off to pinpoint target as well as let them know where we were...they shoot back a little...gunship thunders on in ussually at the rear of the bad guys and within about 5 seconds of thunder another crew served weapon killed. They do leave a mess though. By the time you get back out of the field you cant take enough showers to get the stench of dirt and carbon off.
Ill figure it out (getting pics up) ive dine it before. It just didnt let me right away so I just went on and did something else without really trying to problem solve the situation. Oh, The gunships would come in handy when Israeli troops (who we has a very very uneasy realationship with, they hated that we were stickin our noses in their business) were being pains in the asses. It wasnt uncommon for them to try to block a street patrol with an armored vehicle or fire in our direction, they actually thought it was funny until somone would comm in a gunship. With that hanging over our shoulders, literally, we became the big dog instantly.
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Harrm said:
Oh brother
Tell you what. walk outside right now. Take a look around and then imagine a place so completely delapidated and pocked marked from years of war, then imagine the high pitch crack of high powered rounds breaking the sound barrier near you, then picture in front of you a giant pile of dirt kicking up in the air followed by a huge whoooomp then another but closer. Then think to yourself, geez I bet a cobra gunship could take care of those things....because.....YOUR IN A COMBAT ZONE! and the time you spend there is called what? get it. Im actually done talking about this its actually sort of exhausting.
I'd like to see you stay put with bullets wizzing over your head and mortars popping next you and calmly radio coordinates in for the air strike, oh wait. the radio isn't working. time go get up and move to a better location travelling through open country. Piece of cake right?
There's one thing I learned from speaking to veterans at my regiment. when someone tells you a combat story and they make it sound not bad at all, chances are you need to multiply it by 500. If they don't talk about it all, it's probalby best you don't know.
Not necessarily, it really depends on circumstance and deployment and sometimes your MOS. I know of a squad of Marine Corps. snipers who are going my my school who just got back serving their time in Iraq. They wont shut the hell up about it; they had a great ****ing time.
I know you guys are going to pull out that "YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE SO SHUT UP" crap on me, so let me put this out there: I'm going for army Special Forces in less than a year. My time will come, so let me enjoy my ignorance for now.
--Harrm
It really depends on the circumstances. I had a first sergeant that would never ever tell us how he got his silver and bronze stars yet we had a regimental commander (who played basketball with us from 7th marines who was a medal of honor recipient...Col Vargas) he was scared up badly and didnt mind talking about it...real nice guy.