Something my heavy would always have us screaming!! “Through Pain Comes Discipline”
Author: SgtGrit
Months of changes precede end to military gay ban
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Night-long celebrations will mark the final countdown to the historic end of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay troops, and even more partying will take place once it is lifted Tuesday. But in many ways change is already here.
US Marines and Taliban fight battle of perceptions
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE JACKSON, Afghanistan The jarring blast near the American base sent up a mushroom cloud of smoke that drifted silently in the breeze. “Not good,” a U.S. Marine said. Minutes later, vehicles raced through the gates with the wounded, three Marines and half a dozen Afghans.
Some lay bloodied on stretchers as medics worked on them. Soon, a pair of helicopters swept in and scooped up the injured, including a bomb sniffer dog, for delivery to a military hospital.
GA_googleFillSlot(“news_story_instory”);Word spread. A suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives had attacked security forces in the Sangin district center, next to the Marine battalion headquarters in an area of southern Afghanistan that has seen some of the war's hardest fighting. Three Afghan police and four civilians were killed.
Sgt Grit Newsletter September 22 , 2011
Court Street
Sgt Grit,
Just wanted to write it to ask my fellow Jarheads if they have any fond memories or funny stories of Court Street, Jacksonville, North Carolina?
For those Marines who were not stationed at Camp Geiger, Camp Lejeune or New River Air Station, Court street was a famous (or infamous if you will) street off of Highway 17 that ran through Jacksonville. I talk about it as if it was a city or a major place when in fact it was a just a short dead-end street off of the main drag that was loaded with seedy bars, strip joints and tattoo joints, but it was famous indeed. I have not been back to that area since I was discharged back in 1985, but I am told that the place was closed down several years ago.
Semper Fi – Trace Adkins – US Marines Tribute
Great graphics.
Could have had a little help and a few key words, but an outstanding song.
Marine suicide sparks hazing inquiry
HONOLULU (AP) – In the chilly pre-dawn hours of April 3 in Afghanistan, Marine Lance Cpl. Harry Lew crouched down in the foxhole he'd been ordered to dig for disciplinary reasons – he'd repeatedly fallen asleep on guard duty – placed the muzzle of his gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
M.L.R.
I remember a private beening told to go to the supply Sgt. and to request 100 feet of MLR. The private did as he was told, and the laugh was on him.LOL The true meaning (as I remember) was the line of the shirt, buckel, and trouser fly. (Main Line of Reisitance) Oh yea and GSgt. Carter told us that only females ware PANTS. MARINES ware TROUSERS.
USMC Tat
Motivation Tat, By Ashley Eubanks Top INK Thomasville GA
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