One Hand Clapping Comments

by: Mike Hunt

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:39:58 -0600

All of U seem to skip the possibility of the 7.62x51 to NOT kill the first shot….. and why would the 5.56 be expected to kill someone with a foot-shot, my point being that whether it be a .22 or a .50 BMG, if U miss, the most that could be hoped to accomplish is scare the enemy, maybe the 7.62 would have a higher rate of one shot stops with FMJ ammo, but the real problem here is the geneva/hague convention! hell a bonded 62 grain 5.56 bullet can do more damage than a FMJ 7.62, not quite the penetration, but it can do 14+ inches, thats PLENTY! considering that most people aren’t more than 13 inches thick, instead of switching rifles, or getting different FMJ ammo, we should just put good bullets in what we hav now!!!

by: Lynne Valle

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:48:52 -0600

In 1979, when I was 18 years old, I enlisted in the military. I was a female Marine for a brief period of time. Recruiting officer push hard to meet the agenda of the politically correct policy. The first question that must be asked is “Why does anyone join the military?” I enlisted because I had no stable living conditions, I was in need of the regular life sustaining items, shelter, food, medical care. And I wanted to go to college. I did not personally believe that it was appropriate for women to be in the military, but I was desperate. I was required to choose a MOS (Military Occupationaly Speciality, even though I asked, the recruiter would never give me any real job descriptions. There was a place on the form for “conscientious objector”,I did not know what that meant, but I asked him to explain it to me. Which he did, and I said “Oh that is me, I could never hurt anyone.” And I went to check the box, before I could the recruiter let out a scream “no”, you can’t check that and then explained to me that if someone was trying to kill me wouldn’t I defend myself, and I said I guess. Basically he cohersed me into continueing with the form. There was no evalutation to determine combatibility for miltray life. I was shipped off to Parris Island, SC. The first thing we are told is that the militray owns us and can do whatever they want and that they do not have to keep any promises that our recruting officers made to us. During my basic training, I saw many naive young women severely traumatized. A good percentage where shipped home for being pregnant. One young women was nearly hysterical, she had joined to chase after her boyfriend who had enlisted just before her. I was the only one out of a few dozen women who cared at all about her trauma, or wasn’t too afraid of the DI to show it. I put my arm around her and tried to get her to stop crying, but the DI came out and yelled bloody murder at me, ordered me away from her and accused me of being “queer”. We met up with her boyfriend at church, and he was MAD! He did not approve. She was eventually discharge after sustaining an injury during basic training. You never knew a person could be so happy for gettig injuried. I saw another women so overcome with trauma that she could no longer speak, eat, or move, she had to be carried out on a stretcher with a blank far out stare on her face. Even though women were allowed to keep their hair long, if they wear a wig, I saw women get yelled at and cohearsed into getting a short haircut, to only the ones who stuck by their guns kept their long hair. just above the shoulder was regulation. From the moment I landed at basic training I felt that the military was tring to perform a gender identity transfer on me. They want women in the military, but ONLY if they can change them into some sort of female man. We were not allowed to cross our legs, we had to sit with our feet flat on the floor,we could not move our hips when we walked, they masculinized every thing about us, how we walked, talked, thought, acted. WE were told that when we went to the pool after graduating basic training to put out sunscrean on in the changing room and not in public (don’t want to excite the guys, we were encouraged to wear our dress blue uniform when we got married instead of a white gown that was just a waste of money for a dress you are only going to where once. We have less physcial requiredments than men did, and I saw with my own two eyes in living color that MANY of them could NOT even meet those requirement, and I saw the DIs with their assistants help every women that could not do chin pull ups cheat and pass the requirement. The DI’s helped the women cheat!!! We were not allowed to talk to men, but as time went on, I cheated and did talk to some men. I knew right off that this whole deal was not what I had bargained for, but I didn’t know what I would do or where I would go. I snuck a chance to ask a female Marine if she liked being a Marine,she checked to see if anyone was watching, and then quickly to not get caught she told me it was “HELL, lie do what ever it takes but get OUT.”
That is a quote. She then told me a story about how she was sitting on her guys lap and got yelled at by a female officer, and then punished. Just because she was sitting on his lap. And when I say “yell” I mean these women are expressing pure undeluted verbal hatred and contempt that penetrates into the core of your being. I then took every opportunity and eventually asked five men, including two officer, “If they thought it was right for women to be in the Marine Corp.” ALL five of them told me NO, and they all added, that I was not to tell anyone they said it because they would deny it! I scored high on my grades and was offered an opportunity to go to college and get a free education and become an office,IF I sign a contract agreeing to NOT get married or have children for TEN years!!! Something male officers are not required to do,for obvious reasons. If we broke the contract and got married or had children we would have to pay back the full amount of tuition money, I think it was around $50,000. That kind of money is inconcievable to a teenager, it might as well have been a million dollars. Most of the women I saw that really wanted to be in the military were liberal femminists, there was one woman who just wanted a chance to “blow someone’s f… head off” (that is a literal quote) There was no concept of gender identity except that femininity was viewed in only a negative way. I felt that my very being as a women was constantly under assault. Society today (2008)in general has gender identity issues, as we live in a whatever goes society. Even still, I have daughters now the age I was when I was in the Marine Corp and I know they and their friends do not have a character compatable with the military. The military knows that too, which is why they make such strenuous efforts to alter the perception of our society and remold the very nature of women. I do not agree that it is the responsibiloity of women to protect this country, nor do I believe our government has the right to be deceptive in recruiting offices. Emotional trauma causes long term even perminent injury. It is politically correct but shear ignorance of nature to preten there is no difference between the sexes. As for me, I pretended to be sick, when I was far along in training and they sent me to a military pschologist who fortunately was a man and sympathetic to my situation. After he signed my papers for release I asked him if he thought women should be in the Marines, and he said “NO”, when I got back home I met my recruiter and told him exactly what I thought about him sending off women to the Marine Corp and that I didn’t think women should be there, he agreed with me and said he knew I wouldn’t make it, and I asked him why did he send me then and put me through that, well it was his job! While I was waiting to be discharge one of my DI stopped by to abuse me, and let me know how worthless I am for “quiting” she told me never to get married or have children but I was just a quiter. They were constantly playing mental games. I have been married for 27 years, have 8 children, one in graduate school and 3 at university, the others are teens or preteen. I am not “just a quiter”, I am a womam who loved being a woman too much to allow the US government, via the US Marine Corp, to turn me into a man!!

by: Sculptor

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:07:11 -0600

Extending Lovelock’s theories of the 60’s and 70’s
What is the Earth really is homeostasis-self regulating co-evolutionary biological entity, and has nourished our species precisely for our ability to help warm the planet on which our fellow life forms depend?
Maybe, just maybe Gaia is sentient, or phrased another way, the collective needs of our biom create niches into which evolution directs potential players, and we are a tad arrogant in insisting that we are the only sentient beings here.
The mythology/religion of my peoples depict the frost giants (read glaciation)as the ultimate evil-which needs be fought by all concerned citizens of planet earth.

by: Cpl Rohdog USMC Grunt

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:47:51 -0600

Hey there Sgt Cooley, I didn’t join the Marine Corps for money or to go to college where you waste 4 years of year life protesting things you have no idea about. I don’t where you say that because all the services use the same G.I. bill anyways. As many times I’ve been shot at by the Army rather than the enemy I feel much safer around my fellow Marines any day and I don’t regret ever joining the Marine Corps To be part of the few and the proud. Semper Fi, Do or Die!!

by: Diane K.

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:48:19 -0700

This comment isn’t directly related to the above essay, but I have been bothered by the denial of the number of dead. My Dad was there with the partisans, just outside of Dresden and talked with one of the people doing the counting and the number was much higher than most sources list. He’s horrible at remembering names but has an excellent memory for numbers, (he gets visibly upset when talking on this topic, and this is someone who was in the military for almost 17 years)he says there were closer to 250,000 dead because of all the refugees and soldiers in the area. He also was an American who spoke German, Russian, Polish, and English so he could communicate with a variety of the people in the area.
As more information has come out from Russia and Germany in recent years, I’ve found that a lot of things my father has said about WWII are verified and I believe this will be too.

by: Dennis W. Palm

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:16:10 -0700

US Marines ashamed of themselves?
by Donald Sensing.
How else can you explain this asinine regulation?

July 30, 2007: The U.S. Marine Corps has decided that it is not good for the image of the Marine Corps for marines to wear their combat (”utility”) uniform off base.

Hey Donald Sensing, This is nothing new. When I was in Okinawa in the 60’s we had the same regulation. In fact we couldn’t even go to the EM Club or the movies ON BASE with our ”utility” uniforms on. “Don’t Sweat It”. Semper Fi, Dennis

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