Marine Corps League

[Bailey Guns]

We had 2 Navy guys going at it in the captains lifeboat get caught. The captain wasn't too pleased.

So there's a difference between going down "with" the ship and going down "on" the ship.

[Bailey Guns]

I understand they are called Marine killers for a reason.

I've never heard of the A-10 referred to as Marine killers. Care to elaborate?

ETA: The worst incident of CAS friendly fire that I can find involving Marines and a USAF A-10 seems to have occurred in Nasiriya. It was a Marine JTAC (a captain) that was controlling the A-10.

According to the Pentagon’s own investigation released in early 2004, the mistake, made by a Marine forward air controller, resulted in a US A-10 Warthog attacking the US Marine vehicles. The A-10, from a Pennsylvania Air National Guard unit, targeted and destroyed the AAV with at least one and possibly two Maverick missiles according to the A-10 pilot’s account of the ill-fated attack. The name of the A-10 pilot, has never been made public nor has the name of the Marine forward air controller code-named MOUTH.

A report released Monday by U.S. Central Command recommends disciplinary action against a U.S. Marine Corps captain who called in airstrikes on his fellow Marines in the deadliest "friendly fire" incident of the Iraq war.
Eighteen Marines were killed during a battle March 23, 2003, in Nasiriya. But because some of the bodies had been hit by both U.S. and Iraqi weapons, investigators could confirm only eight deaths by hostile fire.
The source of the fire that killed the other 10 Marines cannot be determined, according to the report.

So should we instead call Marine captains "Marine Killers"? Maybe you should be more afraid of Marine officers?

Or maybe bad shit happens in the fog of war...unfortunately.

[SNAFU]

MCL and RECON Association..

The sound of sh@t hitting the fan....Marrinee

Subs go down with 80 sailors,,and comes up with 40 couples

When in a CH46,,if its Navy,,and leakng hydrolc fluid get out NOW
if a USMC and NOT leakng hydrolc fluid get out NOW

[Marlin]

Her story: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/20...-stars-041612/

Wow, I should have received a Silver Star for walking around Grenada on a bum leg..

[Fmedges]

I've never heard of the A-10 referred to as Marine killers. Care to elaborate?

ETA: The worst incident of CAS friendly fire that I can find involving Marines and a USAF A-10 seems to have occurred in Nasiriya. It was a Marine JTAC (a captain) that was controlling the A-10.



So should we instead call Marine captains "Marine Killers"? Maybe you should be more afraid of Marine officers?

Or maybe bad shit happens in the fog of war...unfortunately.

I've met maybe 3 Officers during my time that we not idiots. Your story is not surprising. The term for a-10's is from desert storm.

[Fmedges]

MCL and RECON Association..

The sound of sh@t hitting the fan....Marrinee

Subs go down with 80 sailors,,and comes up with 40 couples

When in a CH46,,if its Navy,,and leakng hydrolc fluid get out NOW
if a USMC and NOT leakng hydrolc fluid get out NOW

Which MCL are you a part of? I'm kind of interested, but I don't know a lot about it.

[Sharpienads]

I've met maybe 3 Officers during my time that we not idiots. Your story is not surprising. The term for a-10's is from desert storm.

Have they started letting enlisted dudes be JTACs yet? I heard they were thinking about it, not sure if it got anywhere.

[Fmedges]

as far as I know you still have to be a pilot to be one. I haven't been in the fleet since '04 however.