OT Happy Birthday...

On Nov 11, 4:14 pm, Frank Church
wrote:
..to the Marine Corps (yesterday) to include any active or retired on this
group.

I'll drink to that! (but these days, I'll drink to most anything g)

In all sincerity, I'll relate a tale. It is easy to look at the USMC
as a collection of gung-ho jarheads with more enthusiasm than brains;
and I confess to sharing that opinion until recently. Though that may
still be a common commodity, I've had the occasion to meet a few
officers (captains, majors, colonels) in the course of a few
construction projects at Quantico. Honestly, I was damned impressed
with their professionalism and ability. These guys knew their ****.

In article ,
wrote:


And the view of his friend and cameraman, Daniel Demoustier, who was
there and survived:

" I think it was a tragic accident."

Was it? I don't know, but I'd offer the word of a "friendly witness"
carries more weight than that of a politically-motivated contract
coroner (and for those who don't know, Mr. - NOT Dr. - Webster, the
coroner, is a barrister, not a medical doctor).


Well at least, RDean, you've done your homework, which as far as I'm
concerned is 95% of the problem. On the whole, I'm happy to disagree
with anyone who's bothered to check the facts.

On the other hand - you're not a lawyer or anything, are you?

Cos that quote was very selective.

You quoted 'I think it was a tragic accident.'

The full quote is:

I think it was a tragic accident. But why weren¹t they (the Americans)
professional enough to hit the right cars? They kept firing at our car-
I¹m angry about that now. But they must have been able to see the TV
markings. We were visible the whole time, we were only a few hundred
metres away.
The French ambassador in Kuwait told me he thinks the Americans kept
shooting at me because they wanted to eliminate the evidence. That
could mean they have deliberately buried the bodies of the others if
they were hit too. .

Lazarus

In article , Frank
Church wrote:

This post was to honor our US Marine Corps,


Well why did you pick an international fly-fishing group to do so?

US marines aren't very popular in much of the world (although I like
many of them personally very much. And my daughter's English ex, whom
I'm very fond of, has been serving in Iraq and afghanistan for the past
two years, and I wish him well. )

You must have noticed that Afghan, Palestinian & Iranian roffians have
all had the decency to refrain from using this ng to praise their own
paramilitaries. Couldn't you have done the same?

and given some of your
leftist posts in the past

Eh? name one. I'm not leftist. I'm centrist.

Maybe you're rightist?

Lazarus

In article . com,
rb608 wrote:

I've had the occasion to meet a few
officers (captains, majors, colonels) in the course of a few
construction projects at Quantico. Honestly, I was damned impressed
with their professionalism and ability. These guys knew their ****.

I've met loads of marines, (not at Quantico, but in places like Iraq &
Afghanistan) & found many of them charming, intelligent and sincere.

Lazarus

On 13 Nov, 01:41, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

I've met loads of marines, (not at Quantico, but in places like Iraq &
Afghanistan) & found many of them charming, intelligent and sincere.

Lazarus

Most likely none of them were Roffians..............

TL
MC

Lazarus Cooke wrote:
In article . com,
rb608 wrote:


I've had the occasion to meet a few
officers (captains, majors, colonels) in the course of a few
construction projects at Quantico. Honestly, I was damned impressed
with their professionalism and ability. These guys knew their ****.


I've met loads of marines, (not at Quantico, but in places like Iraq &
Afghanistan) & found many of them charming, intelligent and sincere.

Lazarus

That's a quasi-racist stereotype. :-)

It's like "Some of my best friends are Marines."

Among the "loads" of Marines you've met, Lazarus, how many were
charming, intelligent, and sincere? Percentage-wise? Just a guess.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On 13 Nov, 02:41, rw wrote:

Among the "loads" of Marines you've met, Lazarus, how many were
charming, intelligent, and sincere? Percentage-wise? Just a guess.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

My cousin was a marine, 42 Commando Royal Marines. I met a lot of his
comrades. They were nice enough unless you tried to mess them about,
which some fool always did.

TL
MC

In article , rw
wrote:



That's a quasi-racist stereotype. :-)

It's like "Some of my best friends are Marines."

Among the "loads" of Marines you've met, Lazarus, how many were
charming, intelligent, and sincere? Percentage-wise? Just a guess.

Dammit, Royal

(or should that be 'Mr Wulff'?')

none of the ones I spoke to actually shot at me.

For which I'm very grateful.

Lazarus

I've met loads of marines, (not at Quantico, but in places like Iraq &
Afghanistan) & found many of them charming, intelligent and sincere.

There were four officers that I met in my Air Force career that I told
"any time, any place," i.e. I would gladly serve under them anywhere.
One became the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force (Gen McInerny).
Another was a Marine, more specifically, a female full bird.
Frank Reid

"Mike" wrote in message
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On 13 Nov, 01:41, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

I've met loads of marines, (not at Quantico, but in places like Iraq &
Afghanistan) & found many of them charming, intelligent and sincere.

Lazarus

Most likely none of them were Roffians..............

TL
MC



**** YOU MIKE!