Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
… if they even give you long enough to get tired.
Semper Freaking Fi!!!!
OOHRAH! Saving other people’s bacon since 1775.
That was the long hand way to say “No better friend….”
Reminds me of a few years back when I followed a friend when he was taking his son (member of the Marine Rapid Response Anti-Terrorist Team) back to Norfolk so that we could drive the sons car back to Charlotte.
I spent a few moments in the barracks chatting with the guys -they most eagerly and fervently wanted to be our enemies “Huckleberry”. Quite focused they were.
I think someone’s going to have to get a new (PC) call sign this year. Too bad.
God Bless the USMC!
Now hopefully Major Harney did NOT run toward the Marines with his gun drawn…
I must be getting old or suffering from Bombay-itis but didn’t the first news say “mechanical” and NOT “shot down”? If they were shot down what happened to our vaunted SEAD? Manpads get ‘em? Lead bullets?
But in any event good on the USMC team. “Die tired’ is right.
Deeper in the article it says the USAF is still investigating, and Major Harney says “they found themselves in a situations where they were forced to eject”
Point is – shot down is news paper headline fluff.
Shifty and G-Man: Ditto. This is a classic Daily Mail (UK tabloid) aka Daily `Wail` headline, but the story stand up well whatever. As a Brit with 2 USMC in the extended family I was chuffed to read this story.
Just for the record, it was an MV-22 OSPREY and not a “helicopter.” You remember the “troubled V-22?” The fleet of them just passed the 100,000 hour mark.
TC
“No better friend, no worse enemy”