tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post152451924279858950..comments2024-03-28T08:31:51.336-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: QED - Marine Commandant Surrenders, Slits Corps' ThroatAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-74713702088707464512018-02-18T13:25:58.932-08:002018-02-18T13:25:58.932-08:00My son wanted to continue the family tradition of ...My son wanted to continue the family tradition of being a proud Marine but his 1-2 combo of a severe amblyopia with concurrent loss of vision in that eye even with corrective surgery and glasses pretty much nixed that. <br /><br />Reading this, he's relieved in a way - if a former Marine is talking about how the Corps is lowering standards all over creation and he's probably going to die because of that, he's happy to stay out unless drafted. (Yes, he realizes his chances of being drafted are very low because of his eye also, but he'd be happy to serve in any way he could if a draft ever happened - it would mean things were VERY serious). <br /><br />Meanwhile I'm just pissed. NO bar should be lowered. If a woman can't hack it, she shouldn't be in there, same as any guy who couldn't hack it. The Marine Corps is not day care, the corporate world, a college campus, or anything else BUT the Corps, and they exist for ONE reason - to create warriors to fight. They can leave the social engineering and platitudes to colleges and the private sector, but keep that shit out of our military. I guarantee China and Russia and any other large military power are not suffering under the same delusions. We are going to get our asses kicked if they keep this up in DC. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-72557435691807082912018-02-18T07:14:27.836-08:002018-02-18T07:14:27.836-08:00Aesop;
Sorry for your loss. I had read this artic...Aesop;<br /><br />Sorry for your loss. I had read this article you reference about IOC before reading the one about the Army (my service) dropping hand grenade training from BCT. Really sucks to see this level of Polly Anna, pie in the sky, wishful thinking, social engineering wrecking our nations ground fighting forces. I'm retired and my position has been since Berry started this trashing of the force that I would not recommend military service to any one. My son left the service because of this nonsense. He intended a career like mine. Sad so sad.<br /><br />Semper Fi friend.<br /><br />Long Life, overhill<br />A Soldier For Life<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-81979225978986678222018-02-18T06:59:02.623-08:002018-02-18T06:59:02.623-08:00Before you go all high-and-mighy on SecDef; he'...Before you go all high-and-mighy on SecDef; he'sgot plenty of other things slightly more urgent on his sked, and you're also jumping the chain; we have a SecNav too.<br />BGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-37802768865170147032018-02-18T02:40:31.317-08:002018-02-18T02:40:31.317-08:00That's really sad to read.That's really sad to read.MMinWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03791810228821770464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-26836079569537563822018-02-17T18:12:27.903-08:002018-02-17T18:12:27.903-08:00Why not just make up a whole bunch of new MOS'...Why not just make up a whole bunch of new MOS's to fit and be done with the whole business?<br />00H-Haberdasher.<br />00CJ-Pivot Person.<br />00M-Manicurist.<br />00BJ-Camp Follower.Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11591290650593441225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-1734228290670172332018-02-17T13:44:12.478-08:002018-02-17T13:44:12.478-08:00I'd have been proud for my boy to fight for Qu...I'd have been proud for my boy to fight for Queen and country once but I will not have him die in some dusty shithole at the hands of savages unable after thousands of years to form a functioning society.....build your own fuckin country.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.com