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Calling ALL Marines - Past and Present

Discussion in 'Military' started by Agent475, Sep 17, 2008.

  1. Sep 11, 2021 at 5:26 AM
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    NotRed

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    Thank you to all of you who answered the call as a result of those horriffic events 20 years ago. Your service, sacrifice and patriotism are much appreciated.
    Semper Fi
    :oldglory:
     
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  2. Sep 12, 2021 at 11:45 AM
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    ETAV8R Out DERP'n

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    Spotted this memorial on a recent commute in socal.
    Semper Fi Marines
    And to the Corpsman, Semper Fortis, fair winds and following seas
    The soldier too gave the ultimate sacrifice.
    All the branches were represented.

    RIP

    Let's Go Brandon!
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  3. Oct 17, 2021 at 4:06 PM
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  4. Nov 11, 2021 at 6:58 AM
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    WHAT IS A VET?

    Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.

    Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.

    What is a vet?

    He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

    He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

    She is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

    He is the POW who went away one person and came back another....or didn't come back AT ALL.

    He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat....but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

    He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

    He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

    He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

    He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket....palsied now and aggravatingly slow.... who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

    He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being.... a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

    He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

    So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You.

    That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

    Remember November 11th is Veterans Day

    "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

    It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

    It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

    Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
     
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  9. May 11, 2022 at 2:29 PM
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    welcome!
     
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  11. Jun 15, 2022 at 4:55 PM
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    Same dates as you devil! Paris Island 3rd Bt. M Co.

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    GREECE 1999
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    Semper Fi
     
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  13. Jun 15, 2022 at 4:58 PM
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    But did you grab his ass and live?25593_100704706633045_6504328_n.jpg
     
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  15. Jun 15, 2022 at 5:00 PM
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    We like to scrub each others 6 inch barrels...‍
     
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    Tons!
    Semper-Fi my brothers!!! I was a reservist at the Charleston Naval base 80-83 while attending college at The Citadel. Then active duty infantry 83-86 with 2nd MarDiv. Then went Army aviation Warrant Officer 88-97. I was a member of Tacoma World some time ago but didn’t really participate. Just came across the page again and then saw this forum. Just wanted to say hello to all my brothers out there.

    My most recent Taco is a 2022 TRD PRO that I’ve done quite a few mods to. Looking forward to hanging out here!

    Semper-Fi brothers!!!
     
  17. Nov 13, 2022 at 4:36 PM
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    Happy belated birthday to all my fellow crayon eaters...
    Time to pick up a lifetime parks pass

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  18. Nov 19, 2022 at 7:50 AM
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    I reupped my pass a couple months ago, and the park ranger told me the lifetime pass was coming soon. Glad it's finally here!
     
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