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[fightingquaker13]

How could you not? Honestly, army marine rivalry aside, Ermey is what all of us think an American NCO should be. He truly is inspirational, and I think  that only a part of it is an act. The guy seems completely genuine. The only better, and funnier in a very twisted way, example of an NCO I've seen (not counting the ones who trained me becase they are in a seperate category) was watching BBC coverage of Afghanistan. They had an imbed with a satellite camera phone with a squad of Tommies who were in CQB with the Taliban. The camera was jerking, rounds were popping off, and then some one shouts "They're coming"! At which point, a voice that could only belong to a British seargant major (think straight out of Zulu) bellows crisply, "Right! Fix bayonets!" At which point, accompanied by incoming rounds and the changing of mags and the snick of bayonets, we hear our intrepid camera man mutter, "Sweet Christ". Followed immediately by the polite, and very upper crust sounding,  query, "Is any one  using that rifle"? The footage stopped and I don't know how the story ended, except that the Brits took zero losses and the Taliban had a bad day, but I will always remember the tone of voice the seargant had. You could almost hear someone singing The Lads of Harlech in the backround. So here is to R. Lee and that Brit.
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[tombogan03884]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbym-qI3-I

Back in the day you could not be a British NCO if you did not have gray hair

[fightingquaker13]

I should have included this with original post. I think the Gunny and that Brit would approve.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI&feature=related

[Kid Shelleen]

Gunny rocks. Very funny video. Now we know what his major malfunction is.

[Pathfinder]

Apropos of nothing other than FQ mentioned Afghanistan, here's a Fox news video that I ran across. Similar to the one from a Spectre, but this was shot from an Apache.

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=6238464&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=6238464&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/

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[tt11758]

There is no army/marine rivalry.  There are two types of soldiers...........marines and those who wish they were.

[Ping]

My apologies gentlemen, but I do believe that air superiority is the key. The Air Force will bomb them into sumbission. Make safe for the Marines and Troopers to travel. 

[tombogan03884]

My apologies gentlemen, but I do believe that air superiority is the key. The Air Force will bomb them into sumbission. Make safe for the Marines and Troopers to travel. 

Worked REAL well on Germany. their production INCREASED while we bombed the crap out of them, AND they never stopped producing consumer goods. CAS is great but Strategic bombing is basically a waste of resources.

[fightingquaker13]

Worked REAL well on Germany. their production INCREASED while we bombed the crap out of them, AND they never stopped producing consumer goods. CAS is great but Strategic bombing is basically a waste of resources.

And here, for once Tom and I agree. We may disagree on who's tougher in the mud, but we do agree that that's where real soldiers (and marines) fight. Of course, the marines DO have their own air units, which makes it a lot simpler and safer to call in an airstrike. Pansies!   ;D
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