DRIVING UNDER ISLAMQuote:
Originally Posted by Aardvark
DRIVING UNDER ISLAMQuote:
Originally Posted by Aardvark
This is just heart wrenching...
http://i.imgur.com/nvXPNvc.jpg
http://www.13wham.com/news/features/...8.shtml?wap=0&
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Originally Posted by Ridge
Damn
Man that is a hard one to read. So sad...
Casualty #5 passed away overnight.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nav...ing/ar-AAdaFwp
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A sailor wounded in the attack in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday died overnight from his wounds, the Navy and his family said.
Randall Smith was a petty officer in the Navy. The service declined Saturday morning to release his name, but Darlene Proxmire, a step-grandmother in Ohio, confirmed his identity. His age had not been confirmed.
The Navy said Smith died at 2:17 a.m.
Proxmire, of Paulding, Ohio, said Smith had recently reenlisted to stay in the service, and was a married father with three children.
A Marine's response: http://thewashingtonstandard.com/mar...od-of-marines/
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In the wake of Thursday’s jihad attack on a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee that left four United States Marines dead, one Marine says he has had enough and has gone to social media to inform the Islamic State, “You wanted attention, and yesterday, you got it. Only, you chose the wrong people to seek that attention from.” He was talking about the United States Marines.
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“You see, we won’t play by the rules you’re accustomed to seeing,” he wrote. “When you play in our backyard, we don’t have to answer to any chain of command. We will not follow ridiculous ROEs crafted by a spineless bureaucrat to appease some goat herding tribal leader. And we won’t be wearing uniforms so that you can easily ambush us. Nope. None of that shit.”
“When you think you’re walking into a target-rich environment, you’re really walking into an ambush,” he continued. “That pudgy, middle-aged guy wearing khakis in the mall, who unbeknownst to you, is a former 0311 and armed, will dump your sorry ass before you have a chance to scream ‘allah snackbar.’ And that soccer mom pushing a stroller, she’s got a Glock and will happily leave you gasping in a pool of your own blood before she lets you hurt her children.”
“We are here and we still have the training and experience to wage war, whether here or abroad,” he added. “And wage war we will. Every one of us are willing to fight and die to protect our Marine Corps brothers and sisters, our families and friends, and our way of life.”
I think that's a lot of wishful thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by sellersm
A lot of heat there, but not much light.
Ultimately, it will require this society to grow a spine. A few generations ago, this would more likely be true, but the current generation has already forgotten the attacks on the World trade center in 1993 and again on 9-11.
If the Islamists were to take down Facebook and 'reality TV', maybe Gen Y/Millennials would notice and then leap into action by emoting about it.
Well, this ought to protect our soldiers.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/stor...osed/30353587/Quote:
One of the steps Carter approved was Marine Corps Recruiting Command's decision to have recruiters not wear their military uniforms for now, a defense official said. The recruiting command also closed down all offices within 40 miles of the facilities in Chattanooga and increased the force protection condition level from "Bravo" to "Charlie."
Have we become a nation full of pansies? This is ridiculous. A few of our good men get killed and our first response is to tell the rest of them not to publicly identify themselves as soldiers? Insanity! We are supposed to be a nation of badass Yankees! How the hell did we become a nation that wants to hide our men just because they may be threatened!?!?!? Makes me sick.
I hope I hear from some of the Marines here. I'm not so I don't know. But seems to me this would be a slap in the face to those of you who wore that uniform proudly.