Nice story.
Marines vs Soldiers
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If I were President, I’d be in Congress with a six shooter on my hip and a duster on my shoulders asking them, politely, to please pass my bills so I can sign them into law without needing to shed blood.
But that’s just me. I want to be the first female and the most effective, President ever to trod Capitol Hill. :evil:
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my first poltical memory was the 2000 election but the first memory that i understood was the the 2004 election. and i’ve liked politics ever since. but to stay on topic what has happened to the navy? you never hear about them. its always the marines and the army. never really hear about the air force either.
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Nixon… Regan… Carter… Clinton?? Hell I’m not THAT old!
My first distinct political memory was the assassination of Bobbie Kennedy. That was big enough to grab the attention of a 6 yr. old. In fact 1968 was a bad year to be living near Chicago IL during the Democratic National Convention. I remember seeing the rioting on nightly tv. My older sister, just of driving age wanted to go. Parents said no way in hell. Obviously I didn’t understand what was going on in the nation at the time, nor Vietnam. ~ZP
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Anybody hungry?
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Well Cyan, since no other nation on the planet even has a super carrier, the navy has no challenger. The same pretty much goes for the air force. No nation has the advanced stealth technology that we do (Those that do are our allies) and from the looks of it the new F-22 Raptor is the most advanced fighter ever to take to the skies, and in exercises can take on groups of F-18s and still come out on top.
The land, however, will always be a battlefield. No military, no matter how advanced can gain complete dominance of it. While once again, the United States has the finest warriors on the face of the earth, (Me being one of them :-D) the enemy can still hide in caves. It is difficult to hide a ship in a cave, but a few men armed with Ak 74s can hide quite easily.
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Did someone just say they never hear about the Air Force :?
Look at my avatar! :-P
As for the Navy…
Lets start with the submariners…
150 men go down…
75 couples come up.
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Well its true Switch. It’s us and the Army guys who get killed, so we are the ones the civvies here about on the six o’clock news.
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United States Air Force, taxi drivers for the United States Army.
United States Navy, cruise ships for the United States Marine Corps.:P
Air Force does the flyin, Infantry does the dyin.
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Pervavita your description of boot camp is about what Infantry school was like. One of the pleasures was walking 5 or so miles to classes and that did not even count for all the mandatory road marches. You are still off base on the WWII PTO Nimitz had ground units under his control in his area. MacArthur was in command in the south west pacific more or less where Japan’s money Islands are at in the game.
Switch is probably a year or two older than me but I remember Nixon resigning and all that. My Avatar pic is from '87 as well and obviously the Army already had BDUs except for Rangers and Special Forces that wore the Vietnam era OD 107 slant pockets. As far as rip stop goes it seems the stuff always ripped along the reinforcement threads. We used to call them “rip starts”. The above mentioned 107s did not rip as easy and seemed a bit thinner. The Marine digital doesn’t look that bad to me but the Army stuff sticks out like a sore thumb in a temperate environment.
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They started to rip easy, but the rips took some effort (at least on my uniforms) to get through the fishline cross hatching.
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My “summer weight” BDU’s in the Army tore a HELL of a lot easier than my old fatigues in the Air Force…
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No idea. Can only say that the ones issued in the 90’s seemed to be working just fine. Worst tear I ever had was a tiny little thing and it never got bigger.
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Well Switch is apparently a bit older than me, though I can say I joined in the 80s. May 18th 1989. I remember being at the dendtist, one of the few places we could see news from the real world, when the News was talking about Iraq Invading some country called Kuwait that we’d never heard of. LOL, six monthes later I got my first National Defence medal.
Anyway, I don’t mind the digital camo patern, it’s the uniforms them selves that I don’t like. I think the patern is pretty good for urban, and if your sneeking around as an infantry scout you’ll have a guilly suit anyway. The problem I have with them is they are suposedly wrinkle proof (that’s what they say every time we get a new uniform) the process aparently makes them not breath. If you wash them about 100 times they get beter, but I still kinda feel like I’m wearing pajama’s.
I think the AF should go back to the od greens, what do they need camo for anyway. They were testing some blue camo a couple years ago, but someone must have realized how retarded they looked because I haven’t seen them lately.
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Apparently the Air Force has went with a “tiger stripe” patter that has Air Force blue in it. I guess they figured the pattern would blend in with the light coming in the office window from the venetian blinds. :-D
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LMAO, raar! Airforce tigers raar…
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I don’t care if I am former USAF Academy, that was funny right there :-)
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@ncscswitch:
I don’t care if I am former USAF Academy, that was funny right there :-)
Go get 'em Tiger. That’s a good sport!
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LMAO, it keeps getting better. They have a mens and womens cut…
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If you bring a couple ferns into the office you’ll blend right in… :roll:
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Well Switch is apparently a bit older than me, though I can say I joined in the 80s. May 18th 1989. I remember being at the dendtist, one of the few places we could see news from the real world, when the News was talking about Iraq Invading some country called Kuwait that we’d never heard of. LOL, six monthes later I got my first National Defence medal.
A National Defense medal…in Iraq?
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