Subj : Marines
To   : Joe Mackey
From : George Pope
Date : Tue Mar 29 2022 13:24:26

>> >> How come there's no annual Navy-Marines football game?
>> > Because we would wallop them.  :)
>> 
>> & you can't be busting their morale so badly
> And we would hurt their feelings, and we know how sensitive they are.  :)

Yet y'all are on cruises in the Caribbean & popping in on Mardi Gras  occasionally, when do you praxtice football?

Well, they're just hitching rides on the same ships, so same question, eh?

>> Was your training pretty prosaic, like not too dissimilar to what army boys
> go through in boot, or do you share boot camp for training?
> No, they had their own boot camp.
> Navy boot camp was rather easy.  We only marched to and from class,
> carrying wooden rifles.
> About once a week we hit the obstruction field which was just climbing
> over walls, going up and down lines as if boarding or leaving a ship (hand
> over hand), etc.
> There were no long hikes, marching (other than to class), etc.

Must be nice -- why so easy, is it because the thinking is that direct naval  warfare is ancient history?

Are the nuclear missile capable subs under Navy? Is it a separate group who  train for those? & I guess SEALs are the ones who might sneak into a country  using underwater sea-dos?

Does USAF handle the carriers themselves, or is that Navy?

> The only time I marched after that was in a Memorial Day parade and got
> an extra day off for that.  :)

Sweet!

>> I thank you for your service
> Thank you but I didn't do that much and was just serving my country and
> doing what a good male citizen should do.

Fair enough; but you were there, available to bedeployed, if needed, to put  yourself between the enemy & the non-combatants behind you.  That's not such a  thing any more, so I do respect it & honour it when I meet/recognize it.

My disrespect is saved wholly for those who make war for the purposes of  profiteering. (I'm looking at you, Walmart & Big Steel) and for those who do  disservice to the uniform or country, whether of mine or any other. I include  those who act like asses when visiting (shore leave or otherwise just passing  through, depending on branch.)

The rightwing wingnuts like to demand we respect & honour every troop. I'm a  little more particular than that. . . I want to know the one I'm speaking with  is of the good type, not the goofball type, before I determine how much respect I want to give.

Nowadays you only hear of the ones each extremist end of the political  continuum wants to highlight.

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