That's Vince Carter from Gomer Pyle USMC.

That show was popular probably when you were pooping yellow.

Details: CNN article

As both a human being and a former US Marine, I find this behavior deplorable and sickening. I hope that these individuals are quickly identified and face the full extent of the law.

Not only are the actions barbaric, but they also threaten to undo any "good" our mission in Afghanistan has tried to achieve; it undermines whatever positive influence we may yet possess on the Arab Street; it emboldens our enemies and critics; and it disgraces USMC forces who have and continue to serve with honor.

^ what enoch and skeeve said

as a marine vet let me assure you that boot camp, et al, is where the talk-the-talk 'tough' become the walk-the-walk truly tough, both physically and mentally -- you are first stripped of your dignity and soon enough earn it back, and more so, through merit

that said, this appears to be some kind of ROTC or JROTC event rather than a usmc drill instructor training marine recruits

@NetRunner: agreed that it's not the worst, nor is my anecdote...

and certainly odd changes in policy and illogical requirements do increase bureaucracy... but i'm not certain that i can agree that there isn't any valid reason for change...

think back through the last 11 years of us elections, in particular the previous three presidential elections... claims of voter fraud, hanging chad, dead rolls, acorn, etc -- now, i don't know if or what impact wisconsin's regulatory changes have on that... but that's the nature of government: we expect incompetence, and success is generally just a fortunate coincidence

from my tale, our overseas missions weren't always as i described... they changed, radically so, post 9-11 -- i used to be able to phone my nation's consular services and be shown respect and have my questions answered... help was given freely and easily, as one should expect

not so anymore - now we're herded in like infected cattle and treated as a possible terrorist - the 'help' has morphed into a hindrance... but are the reasons for such valid? how can we say...

and no, i wasn't dealing with the department of immigration... just my embassy in filing a consular report of birth abroad (CRBA), and those policies have changed recently too... for no apparent reason

i'm an american citizen, not an immigrant - there wasn't one iota of reason to suspect my not being a citizen... and soooo many reasons to accept that i was...

my family came to north america in the early 18th century... i'm tall, blond, and blue-eyed... i speak perfect american english with a non-regional accent... i served my country for six years in the usmc and am a veteran of the persian gulf war... and this is in addition to all the documentation i presented...

instead, i was treated as 'suspect' by a foreign- and indifferent-looking woman speaking to me in broken english... quite rudely questioning ME regarding something i have always assumed was fundamental: my being a us citizen

i guess my point is that videos like this present the particular situation as being 'scandalous' ... when in fact it's commonplace... and while annoying, it's not really insulting -- try visiting a us consular mission abroad and then complain about the bureaucracy, invasion of privacy, and being treated in a demeaning way

honestly, watching the domestic situation in my home country from overseas for the last 15-odd years is amazing... the partisanship is ridiculous, and so are most of their claims -- it's like having your body (the nation) infested with two distinct groups of intestinal parasites--like an old-south, grangerford-shepherdson blood-feud--the attacks from both left- and right-leaning tapeworms have risen to the level of threatening the very health and life of the host

videos and other seeming vitriol like this appear to me as symptomatic of such an unhealthy bent: a bloody feces-laden discharge

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You know, a fresh coat of paint, better looking wood stalls, and some germanic ancestory sellers there, and I'd thought it was a Texas gun show. Not much of a difference between the seller's and those I've seen at some gun shows. And the prices aren't to off either...

Seriously, if your going to make an arguement for or against, showing stastics that heavily favor your arguement will never win over the other side.

If firearms did deter crime, why is crime still taking place in those areas? Last I checked, a firearm can't protect you from identity theft, nor a chemical spill. They do not protect you from guys on Wall Street, selling you a derviatives future contract that will ulimately fail, cus they engineered it to fail (i.e. Goldman Sachs). Or your business of shrimp, cus some group of idiots short-cutted design plans that spills 18K of oil barrels/day.

Yes, a firearm would protect me, when some mugger attacks to. So would my man-eating dog, platoon of USMC's, or Ashbringer (WoW sword). So to, to being observant of the enviroment and hence, not walking in to an ambush in the first place!

>> ^therealblankman:
>> ^justathinker:
They would use an Osprey for this now.

Yup they would. And it would crash just as hard.


I doubt that. The USMC has had an Osprey squadron operating in Iraq for 4 years now.

I did rappeling in Boy Scouts. Tons of fun. You learn to lean back. Then you go down forward. Did all that. Heck, I got Eagle Scout at the end.

So at High School some time later, my P.E. class was doing 'The Tower', which is at one side of the atheltic field. All these jocks who thought they were tough as nails, turned in to cry babies. Rather amusing to watch. I got up there, past all of them, linked up, and just leaned forward and ran down the wall. Got down and climbed back up there. Was rather fun taunting all those jocks for being scared.

After you rappel a 300 foot cliff, that tower, was only 90 feet was like two hops.

One of my friends that did USMC basic said, if I had joined, I would have done pretty well on most things. Alas, being 6'10" tall, I found to my dismay, the US Military's height limit was 6'8". Oh well...

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I'd like to inject the fact that the Marine Corps never takes draftees. The USMC has ALWAYS been an all-volunteer force.

Why is the sight of the destruction of huge piles of deadly weapons supposed to make me afraid?

Am I supposed to shed a tear when I see nuclear weapons dismantled?

Are we peasants supposed to rise up in rebellion when they turn our swords into plowshares?

Is there some fucking reason why deadly weapons seem to have a fan club that act as if the only reason they like them has to do with "tradition" and "rights" and not that "it makes people scared" and "I can kill people working for the government if I want".

I'm all for giving the people the right to overthrow their government, but if the USMC decides to occupy your town, do you think a bunch of blowhards with hunting rifles will give them pause?

Shouldn't y'all be fighting for the right to own IED's, tanks, SAM launchers and nukes?

You didn't have to say it, because I already knew.

I also know you love Gunny, so go give him a kiss, that way the USMC won't reactivate him.

(Seriously, it looks like it's going to work out for him, all things considered. Let's hope.)

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hmmm. Hard to say really. Seriously though, I am putting together a bunch of cell phone camera pics of a bonfire, and I do love you. Oh wait, I didn't that say anything about that last part, did I? I must have been drunk.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Were you still a little drunk this morning when you wrote that?

Thanks, brother.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
I was just burning furniture the other night. You should have sifted it. I would have voted for it, then *duped it and *qualityied it, *begged and *promoted it, switched it's channel to *art changed it's tags and rubbed myself all over it. *dicshard