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Wow, I didn't know my elementary school worked like Marine Corps. Does MC use a lot corporal punishment too?
By the way, under the Real Life section of So What Do We Do Now? has this:
How much of this is true?
edited 15th Jul '12 11:36:35 PM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Lol, funny comic.
They even have Blue Falcons!
"Buddy" is only half the word.
I've been accused of being the Air Force version of that.
But then, the one time I dimed someone out was two days after a GI party in tech school, during which the idiot next door to me had been passed-out drunk, then when the floor MTI banged on his door was stupid and inebriated enough to cuss him out. Two days later, we're all lined up in the hall after PT and the MTI's looking for anyone who overheard said idiocy. Nobody was saying anything, and I knew damn well that it was only minutes away from it being all our asses. So I stepped forward since I had been standing in the door of my room and had overheard it when it happened.
Blue Falcon is probably just a backronym to make it polite the same way Charlie Foxtrot is.
Fight smart, not fair.Many veterans of the military found during their time of service that they felt they were truly living when danger was all around. Back in the civilian world, they often don't know what to do with the rest of their lives. This is why many go into mercenary work for private contractors. (A good dose of PTSD doesn't help, either.)
How much of this is true?
I can relate. It's why I keep considering working for a private contractor. Though for me it's a combination of not knowing what to do with myself, and not having viable job skills for anything else.
Martello can attest to this as well, but even when nothing is actually happening, just being in a place where you're always on your toes and things are always dangerous is like being in another world. My memories of Afghanistan feel like everything was twice as vivid as the real world back in the states. Like everything was somehow more acute, filled with color and clarity. Civilian life kind of feels like white noise on a television by comparison, while Afghanistan was life in HD for me.
In slightly alarming news, Chinese ships were actually sighted near Okinawa (not Senkaku, which are farther west, but Okinawa), that's why Japan recalled their ambassador to China yesterday. Oh and the Chinese frigate that went aground near the Philippines' western island of Palawan has now been "recovered", and the captain was surely humiliated by that since the weather here was quite hot (not much rain) and calm (not much wind). LOL
I'm guessing the bases in Okinawa are all abuzz right now, especially since a Chinese general said in a radio interview that Japan should "return" Okinawa to China. LOL
Not that I imagine little pesky details like "fact" would stop the PRC, but was Okinawa ever under Chinese control, at any point in history whatsoever? The closest I can find in a quick google search is about the 14th century when they were a tributary state of China, but even that still has Okinawa as a separate entity (albeit with a lot of Chinese immigrants).
As for the US presence on Okinawa, while it will be scaling down under an agreement earlier this year, there will still be a significant military population on the island at least for the near future.
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Especially with the US Strategic re-balancing, expect Kadena to be open for a while yet.
Keep Rolling OnI expect our stuff in Japan will be there for a while yet. Don't forget that way bigger than Kadena is also the Navy/Marine base in Okinawa. We have a lot of heat on that island, and China isn't going to be able to do shit to push us or the Japanese off of it.
Maybe these developments will keep Okinawa open. I've heard a lot of the locals really want the marines gone from Okinawa, but with a looming Chinese threat if they keep being belligerent...

Of course we do have some new innovations for something like that which we didn't have back then... Namely the "inferno ball" and drones.
Get a nice little armored EOD drone on tracks with a gun on it, and you have yourself an efficient excavator.