AP reporting US ship attacked

[Glenn E. Meyer]

I watched Tripoli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli_(film)) several times when I was a kid.

[TGS]

Fictional jingoism cueing off the last page or so of discussion, but a badass movie scene that nonetheless probably resonates with everyone reading this thread:



For those unfamiliar with maritime service, there's still technically a TO&E for naval rifle companies in the modern US Navy that is pictured here.

What would've been really cool is if they set the war a decade earlier, and had the Marines and Sailors armed with a mixture of Lee-Remington 45-70s and Lee Navy 6mms. Or Winchester-Hotchkiss M1879s, I think the Navy Dept had those, too.

[DDTSGM]

The USMC Officer's Saber.

Building trust with local forces and leading an insurgency to over thow a nation in 1801-1805. Eat your heart out, green berets.

Are you a Marine? (no snark intended)

[Kanye Wyoming]

"...On the occasion of his departure, Hamet honored Lt. O’Bannon by presenting him his jeweled sword with a Mameluke hilt. This sword was the model for the dress sword used by Marine Corps officers today, making it the oldest continuously used weapon in the US military arsenal."

Fun fact: I'm descended from this guy:

https://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ns_obannon/

Very fun fact. Coolness? 10/10.

[JRB]

Are you a Marine? (no snark intended)

Well there's no such thing as 'Was a Marine' until you shoot them a bunch and bayonet them a few times just to be sure, but even then you gotta be careful with that past tense. Because they might come back to life, jump up out of the ground, and yell at you for claiming they were ever NOT a Marine because they EARNED their EGA, dangnabbit!
Some of them find their way into other employment after wearing the USMC uniform, but yet they're always in their blues and getting drunk at least one weekend in NOV, so fair bet that once a Marine, always a Marine.


Meanwhile Soldiers like me will serve 30+ years and be happy to never again talk about the military or wear a uniform.
If I knew then what I know now, I might have let the Army keep its bonus and done something else.

[TGS]

Are you a Marine? (no snark intended)

Yep

Well there's no such thing as 'Was a Marine' until you shoot them a bunch and bayonet them a few times just to be sure, but even then you gotta be careful with that past tense. Because they might come back to life, jump up out of the ground, and yell at you for claiming they were ever NOT a Marine because they EARNED their EGA, dangnabbit!
Some of them find their way into other employment after wearing the USMC uniform, but yet they're always in their blues and getting drunk at least one weekend in NOV, so fair bet that once a Marine, always a Marine.


Meanwhile Soldiers like me will serve 30+ years and be happy to never again talk about the military or wear a uniform.
If I knew then what I know now, I might have let the Army keep its bonus and done something else.

I'm surprised nobody has yet pointed out how in the video, the company of enlisted had to stand outside in the sun on a dock waiting for the captain to show up on his own time, in his own personal boat.

I feel like that was a piece of comedy inserted as an Easter egg for military viewers.

[JRB]

I'm surprised nobody has yet pointed out how in the video, the company of enlisted had to stand outside in the sun on a dock waiting for the captain to show up on his own time, in his own personal boat.

I feel like that was a piece of comedy inserted as an Easter egg for military viewers.

Personally, I thought the director might've done that just to show the audience how self-absorbed that Captain was... without realizing that waiting on an officer who had no regard for an enlisted man's time was an almost daily occurrence in uniform

[DDTSGM]

Well there's no such thing as 'Was a Marine' until you shoot them a bunch and bayonet them a few times just to be sure, but even then you gotta be careful with that past tense. Because they might come back to life, jump up out of the ground, and yell at you for claiming they were ever NOT a Marine because they EARNED their EGA, dangnabbit!
Some of them find their way into other employment after wearing the USMC uniform, but yet they're always in their blues and getting drunk at least one weekend in NOV, so fair bet that once a Marine, always a Marine.


Meanwhile Soldiers like me will serve 30+ years and be happy to never again talk about the military or wear a uniform.
If I knew then what I know now, I might have let the Army keep its bonus and done something else.

Notice, I asked are you a MArine because I are one.

ETA: I just really thought about your post. After I got out of the Marines I joined the Army Reserve because the Marine Corps Reserve doesn't exactly units peppering Kansas.

I knew I was in a different branch one of my first drills when I told a Specialist to turn to and help me with a general police of the area. I was informed post haste that I wasn't in his chain of command and found out that at least in his unit 'me Sergeant, you Specialist' didn't hold sway.

But I stayed for 24 years, largely because for the first eleven I was in an airborne unit and after they disbanded I had too much time in to quit. Glad I stuck it out, that Tricare is nice, almost as nice as the check I started getting when I was 60.

[Wake27]

Personally, I thought the director might've done that just to show the audience how self-absorbed that Captain was... without realizing that waiting on an officer who had no regard for an enlisted man's time was an almost daily occurrence in uniform

Well you swine have nothing better to do with your time so…

[Hambo]

Until the mid 1800s, sure. But what about prior to the 1950s?

There you go again.