Fifteen Minutes And Twenty Seconds
Yeah, I though that was a little strange too. WTF?
Seldom-disclosed fact:
The letters can also stand for, ”U Suck My
“.
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 07:56 AM
Or Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children.
Unorganized
& Mass Confusion
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 08:38 AM
IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP:
Men-- Don’t wear a USMC shirt unless you were in The Corps! Protect your testicles!
Women-- If not a Marine, say that your Marine boyfriend gave it to you after he ripped your blouse.
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 09:56 AM
ANOTHER SAFETY TIP: In the bad ole days they were called WMs or Women Marines. Now, simply Marines. Certain
males called them BAMs - Broad Assed Marines. You never used that word around one of them—don’t care how big you are, or your rank.
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 10:25 AM
Umm, correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t “Guard” troops in Iraq actually active duty and no longer under the control of state govenors. Stupid bee-otch. And funny how the “news” article doesn’t point that out.
Easy answer, he is some clown in a Marine t-shirt. You had it right, Skipper.
Think the Jarhead’s nailing her? Thought even Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children had better tast than that.
Posted by MAJ Mike
10/13/2005 at 01:48 PM
Uhhh, make that “taste”, not “tast”. I blame rotten computer monitors and declining fine motor skills.
Posted by MAJ Mike
10/13/2005 at 01:49 PM
I put my hand upon her toe, yo-ho yo-ho
She said, “Marine you’re mighty slow” yo-ho yo-hoAfter that it gets dirty…
The other Marines would have sex with anything that moved, but I didn’t want to restrict myself. But with her there is a line you just don’t cross.
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 04:27 PM
On the few occasions when someone’s given me ‘unwanted’ attention in my travels I ‘ve told them that my husband is a former Marine and that he doesn’t take kindly to someone bothering his lady.
(I always leave out the part about him being a short and fat former Marine. Let the buggers think my man’s a hulk
)
Oh-and I have my OWN USMC t thank you.
Mike’ll be able to wear midium t-shirts when pigs fly.
No offense Oink.
Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
10/13/2005 at 04:54 PM
http://sighclub.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/pigsfly_4.jpg
Into the air, junior OINKman
Into the air, upside down;
Into the air, junior OINKman
Keep your nose up in the brown;
And when you see that OINKman
With his shiny wings of tin
Then you will know the junior OINKman
Has sent his boxtops in!
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 05:17 PM
This old sailor pretty much laid off the Marines after the Mayaguez. Okay, sometimes I’ve slipped but on the whole I’ve stuck to my resolution.
I will return fire though.
OT Micheal Yon is back in Iraq and has posted a new dispatch.
StinK: A quiz: Why do sailors tie a string around their soap while shipboard?
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 09:24 PM
Um, ah… so they don’t have to bend over if they drop it???
Who do you think invented soap on a rope?
I never had problem one with Swabbies—often met up with them whilst on liberty and hung out. A few freaks & geeks, but less percentage than Marines, who sometimes have something to prove. We had one Sailor nicknamed “Overcoat” who hung out with us in our troop compartment en route to VNam. He got his name by chronically wearing an overcoat so he could sneak booze on board. He figured his superiors would get used to it if he wore an overcoat all the time & not wonder why he was wearing one back on board in August in Manila. Gotta love a guy like that.
Our Top Sgt. was not so flexible. One ... Uhhhhh .. effete Sailor remarked to him as we were disembarking, that it must be just awful to climb down those terrible rope nets. “You think that’s bad? And you otta see the shit we go thru after that!”
An exception. I understand why they did not warmly welcome 800 seasick animals aboard their boat.
Posted by Oink
10/13/2005 at 10:50 PM
I spent my time on Destroyers so I didn’t have much contact with Marines. Pulled liberty in Malta once when a couple of “gator freighters” anchored out too. They ran those poor grunts around to the other side of the island for their liberty. I guess they didn’t want them crawling “the gut” with us. I did see a few who made it back to Valletta but there were no problems as far as I know. We were there for
and 
so, I think, were they.
I do recall a conversation on the UQC (underwater telephone) at turnover leaving the Med. One guy was razzing another guy on a ship just arriving. Asked if he left plenty of shoe polish at home. His buddy asked why. He said it was to keep the Marines busy cause they’d rather shine shoes than
Oh, and it’s a SHIP dammit. Not a boat. Boats are carried on ships.
Stin:
1. You keep your shoes polished or get -ed. That’s the first thing your seniour NCOs look at—after your haircut.
2. You notice that it’s the last word in my post? So you’d notice it. I had actually typed the word “ship”—then I thot to myself, “How can I
with him???”
3. Quick review: You tried to join the Marines, but the recruiter found out about your parents. What was it he found out that disqualified you?
extra credit: The nice thing about the Navy is that you’re never more than 6 miles from land. How can this be?
Fondly,
Posted by Oink
10/14/2005 at 07:32 AM
What’s Crocodile Dundee doing standing next to that Marine?
1. I’m not one to get frequent haircuts so when I do, people notice. I used to work with a retired Marine. If I showed up at work with a fresh haircut he had one within two days. I called it “haircut envy”.
2. I figured as much and repeated what I’m sure you’ve heard more than once. Yeah, everybody says ‘boat’ for a little while, at least. Being an immigrant, I came over “on the boat” and said and did things as if I “just got off the boat”.
3. Hmm, parents were hetrosexual and married ... to each other. This last is also disqualification for OCS. The nearest land is usually straight down. As a Sonar Tech I had an eye on it at all times. Sometimes that land is too near. One of the low points of my Naval career was when we ran aground while I was changing the chart paper in the fathometer. Yep, that’ll get you an interview at one end of a long green table with no ashtrays on it. [shudder]
I rewrote an old poem for the leading quartermaster. (That’s they guy who tracks where the ship is. He has nothing to do with beans or other supplies)
I"m not allowed to run the ship, the whistle I can’t blow
I’m not allowed to say how fast the Bigelow can go
I’n not allowed to pull the chain or even ring the bell
But let the bastard run aground and see who catches hell.
I didn’t get a haircut for a couple years after discharge—this was the 60’s and I was on campus. Now I get a 1A, just between a 1 (Bootcamp/Skinhead)and a 1.5 (cannot see skin). The reasons are 1. my wife likes it 2. ticks.
My kids call a certain ‘look’ FOB: Fresh Off the Boat. That’s not good.
Re: Marine parents, married will do… Have you read “Life on the Mississippi” by Mark Twain, where they deliberately call out false, shallow depth soundings to shake up a cocky young river pilot? If not, do so.
Posted by Oink
10/14/2005 at 03:12 PM
