Happy Birthday Marines!
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6 years ago in #veterans by sgt-dan (61)
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I read War Is a Racket for the first time in 2nd grade.
Hey you know the Marines are a Department of the Navy?
This is Roy Lopez, one of my oldest friends. He was a tunnel rat in Viet Nam who got the nickname "Lucky" during his first tour when his squad was in a firefight behind some hill, and he jumped up like Rambo trying to spray bullets everywhere. Someone looked at him, and calm as can be said, "Lopez, sit the fuck down."
He was also a Gunny during Desert Storm.
He jokes that the only reason he joined the USMC was 'cause there was no other way for a 17-year-old Puerto Rican kid to legally own a gun.
And because we used to joke about his completely-made-up addiction to Cheetos and beer:
He also taught at West Point after he retired from the Marines, and even at ... gosh he's gotta be 70 by now ... he can circle kick over my head. Has a shelf going all around his living room filled with martial arts trophies.
When he was stationed in Okinawa:
😍 me some Marines. I don't think anyone can possibly look bad in those Class A's.
This coming January 21st it will have been 40 years since I took the oath of enlistment for the first time. It seems like yesterday.
Of course this Marine knows that he was part of the Department of the Navy, we were the men's department.
Sorry, old Marine joke and not very politically correct. Then again; never knew a Marine, male or female, that was politically correct.
Bahahaha!
Naw that was totally the one I was setting up.
Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
I was gonna go with, "What's the difference between a PFC and a 1LT?" But that one's probably kinda played out.
For the uninitiated the answer is that the PFC has actually received a promotion !
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