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Link: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/05/ap_uniformgraduation_051308/

Marine can’t wear uniform at graduation

Remember the left...."I support the troops not the mission", mission mantra they preach to us? Well not in this instance. I guess our schools are not proud Americans anymore!

BLOOMER, Wis. — A new Marine who’s graduating from Bloomer High School this month won’t be able to wear his military uniform during the commencement ceremony.

The Bloomer School Board has denied Daniel Ligen’s request to wear his Marine uniform. Ligen finished his class work early in order to enlist and will be done with basic training at the San Diego Marine base by graduation May 31.

The board adopted a policy Monday night that requires a cap and gown be worn for graduation. There was a motion to allow an exception for military personnel, but it wasn’t seconded.

One board member says the denial is not an attempt to be unpatriotic, but the cap and gown celebrates education.

With regard to the training aspect, I subscribe to the following:

1) Simple is what killing is, whether with a spear or a JDAM. The act itself is simple. We have been stacking them up like cordwood over here – no problem.

2) The training we did prior to coming over was simple - hardness, simple drills to get into firing position, simple escalation of force parameters. Nothing higher than that. Now at Division level and above, the planning, ROE, complexity of synchronization, and bringing in all aspects of foreign policy gets complex - but the killing time remains simple, and we do everything we can to keep it that way. We don’t brief the trigger pullers on all the complexities - we keep them at that cutting edge.

3) I know that EVERY Marine knows how to do sight alignment and sight picture (clear tip of the front sight post in a fuzzy “bullseye”). That is why we are the world’s best all-purpose marksmen. Weapons handling remains simple (”never be more than three feet from your weapon”; “keep that weapon functionally clean”; “complacency kills” - these are all sayings that ALL Marines over here know by heart). I see Marines all the time working with that weapon; it is great to see. In firefights, I truly cannot tell the difference between a Marine who has been in 50 fights or 5 - and I have looked while it is happening. They keep it simple.

4) Fitness over here is simple. Rear area guys are still on the weight schedule (all the body beautiful stuff). Most Marines with a real job go back to some basic calisthenics and a little running - simple stuff. You get accustomed to the weight of the plates and the body armor. You get used to being tired. You get used to not showering every day. You eat what is put in front of you. You are fighting fit. You don’t look like Arnold, but you fight like hell.

5) Mentally, you adjust to danger. I watch a lot of my “kids” (18-21) and they mature to the harshness, the reality and the danger of everyday life here. Sleep is more important than being afraid. So is food. They adjust. We have lost some great Marines over here, and very few died afraid. I lost one right next to me a month or so ago - he was still firing when he took one through the neck (he died almost instantly). The simple will to survive and the simplicity of life in a combat zone strips away all the choices. There is a part of me that wants to stay here, because I am so tuned in. I KNOW THAT I KNOW - it is that simple. I know that I can feel when someone is watching me when I am out in towns, I know where my weapon is and hope I will react, I can tell when they are up to something - I am tuned in. I saw insurgents running away the other day, maybe 500 yards from me. When I got there, I went right to their tracks - and found them easily. You just tune in.

Without making too much of it, I think heiho training - and you know I have said this in written form - closely resembles the kind of “deadly simplicity” that should be sought in any training. Not too much repetition; proper mindset; increasingly uncontrolled environment. The true realizations come in the form of the adversary (once the “my sword goes here, my feet go there” is put in context). You feel him - you know he wants to kill you - and you go through a “reaction-to-simultaneous action-to-(hopefully) pre-emptive action” methodology. That is what the training does. It is the best way.

Link: http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/

Maybe it was the loneliness? Maybe it was the complete isolation? Maybe it was the young people sacrificing themselves beyond our own selfishness? Maybe it was the hard work 18 hours a day? Maybe it was just the Marine without a family except the Marine Corp, and his determination to be the best Marine possible? Maybe it was once upon a time in some and all of us? Maybe it was the light rock music that grabbed your core and would not let go. Maybe it was that we are just so polarized as a Nation that only some can be so damn proud of these Men and Women that I sat and could not peel away from "Carrier"

I was told by the old Salt from Vietnam in the break room that I should watch this. So I went home and set the PVR and could not find the time to walk away from 10 hours of some of the best documentary I've seen, EVER!

Maybe it just that I sat a cried never so proud and reflecting on how great America is!

Link: http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080417171532.aspx

Partially Stolen from this Great Man!! Gawfer!

To all the Veterans of American military forces this is a sad day for us. Comparing the battle of Iwo and the WILL it took to defeat a determined Japanese Army and one clearly determined to take Americas freedoms away. There is no war on Global Warming! There is no G W.

For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism.

The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green “the new red, white and blue.”

Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.”

“It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”

Mates also said making the comparison of World War II to global warming was erroneous and disrespectful.

“The second world war we knew was there,” Mates said. “There’s a big discussion. Some say there is global warming, some say there isn’t. And to stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just sacrilegious

DISGRACEFUL. I don't care how many times they changed there cover! Losers!

It is more then a disgrace.

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