Comments on: Motivating the Marines http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/08/13/motivating-the-marines/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/08/13/motivating-the-marines/comment-page-1/#comment-439612 virgil xenophon Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:19:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=10998#comment-439612 Thanks for the post, b2. Not enough of it ever makes the MSM--as if we should wonder why.... Thanks for the post, b2. Not enough of it ever makes the MSM–as if we should wonder why….

]]> By: b2 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/08/13/motivating-the-marines/comment-page-1/#comment-439609 b2 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:02:28 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=10998#comment-439609 Came across <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/.a/6a00d8341c2c7653ef011570fb1a24970c-800wi&imgrefurl=http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/click/2009/07/us-marines-in-helmand-province-afghanistan.html&usg=__wDSpw4tyVboS8AvHUnaPf_YuDDM=&h=533&w=800&sz=93&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=q9OxZslVONbqNM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmarines%2Bhelamnd%2Bsleeping%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DG" rel="nofollow">this today</a>. Marines sleeping after 8 hr. firefight- hits you hard: b2 Came across this today. Marines sleeping after 8 hr. firefight- hits you hard:

b2

]]> By: blackeagle603 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/08/13/motivating-the-marines/comment-page-1/#comment-439413 blackeagle603 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:12:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=10998#comment-439413 heh. Was warming up my wannabe Marine today after work with a little "combined arms" -- AR15 .223 and Model 70 .270. Father/Son range day. Good times. Had him dialing in the irons on the AR15 build (front post bottomed and still need more elevation -- need to get busy with a file). Then introduced him to the new (old -- pre-64) .270 that I got for to be his primary hunting rifle a while back. He's outta here Sunday to the Bay Area for NROTC kickoff and swearing in. heh. Was warming up my wannabe Marine today after work with a little “combined arms” — AR15 .223 and Model 70 .270. Father/Son range day. Good times. Had him dialing in the irons on the AR15 build (front post bottomed and still need more elevation — need to get busy with a file). Then introduced him to the new (old — pre-64) .270 that I got for to be his primary hunting rifle a while back.

He’s outta here Sunday to the Bay Area for NROTC kickoff and swearing in.

]]> By: Grampa Bluewater http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/08/13/motivating-the-marines/comment-page-1/#comment-439383 Grampa Bluewater Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:11:17 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=10998#comment-439383 The Imperial German Army knew what they faced: devil dogs, the hounds of hell. The enemy you didn't want to face. Ninety years later, not much has changed from the enemy's point of view. These dudes are really into this stuff, man. The Imperial German Army knew what they faced: devil dogs, the hounds of hell. The enemy you didn’t want to face.

Ninety years later, not much has changed from the enemy’s point of view.

These dudes are really into this stuff, man.

]]> By: Mike Myers http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/08/13/motivating-the-marines/comment-page-1/#comment-439252 Mike Myers Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:27:01 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=10998#comment-439252 The chance to "get some" in a fair fight (well not really fair, since it's the USMC versus whatever comes their way) is all that it takes to motivate a Marine. A fellow a year or so ahead of me in law school won a Silver Star in Viet Nam (he was a lieutenant at the time) for leaping out of an APC or similar squad vehicle under heavy waving a .45 and yelling "Let's go, we're Marines". The State Bar might have wanted to reject him for lack of prudence, but he wound up as retired USMC general--and one of the leading lawyers in San Diego. The chance to “get some” in a fair fight (well not really fair, since it’s the USMC versus whatever comes their way) is all that it takes to motivate a Marine.

A fellow a year or so ahead of me in law school won a Silver Star in Viet Nam (he was a lieutenant at the time) for leaping out of an APC or similar squad vehicle under heavy waving a .45 and yelling “Let’s go, we’re Marines”. The State Bar might have wanted to reject him for lack of prudence, but he wound up as retired USMC general–and one of the leading lawyers in San Diego.

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