Comments on: Happy Birthday, USMC

By: AFSarge

AFSarge — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:27:01 +0000

I noticed the lead Marine has on the new FROG shirt. Flame Resistant Outer Garment. Nice.

By: Flanker

Flanker — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:00:26 +0000

Happy BDay indeed…….to the Corps and all those who served!

Toejam…..I remember that one, wasn’t there a scene towards the end where the guys were roped into some sort of “game” only to suffer a VC attack or something?

By: Toejam

Toejam — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:23:51 +0000

A thirty year old movie has been recently released on DVD, and is a must for all Marines and former Marine vets of the Vietnam war. It wasn’t a really a big hit back in 1977/78, but it’s worth a $25 investment. It’s really the precurser of Full Metal Jacket and one of the actors is a very young R. Lee Ermey (Sgt. Hartman) and even features the “boot camp” scenario.

“The Boys in Company C” charts the fortunes of five young Marine recruits. Led by Stan Shaw, the quintet is shipped off to Vietnam. The film makes no bones about the demoralizing effect the war has on its participants, nor the pigheadedness of the military higher-ups who think only in terms of body counts and photo ops.

Of the five recruits, the most memorable are Michael Lembeck as Vinnie Fazio, the resident wiseguy (the same type of role played by Lembeck’s dad Harvey in 1950s war films) and Andrew Stevens as Billy Ray Pike, a straight-arrow type who succumbs to the lure of drugs; the others are played by Craig Wasson, James Canning, and Scott Hylands.

By: RAA

RAA — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:01:24 +0000

is it just me, or is the 223 to fucking damn old? for christ sake change the NATO round, or ignore NATO and make a round and then constitute as the standard like the 76251NATO, really, when are the europeans gonna have to use our guns? fucking 9 paras

By: jaymaster

jaymaster — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:44:54 +0000

That is the toughest looking photographer I have ever seen.

Nice Canon too.

OohRah!

By: Bram

Bram — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:14:46 +0000

I love my Corps but not all the guys I served with were what you would call brilliant.

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:55:07 +0000

Bram: Of course, he could have, um, needed the missing rounds earlier. Parting gifts for game show contestants or something.

Unless it was ten seconds ago, though, I would have thought he’d reload. But what does Murdoc know?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:24:58 +0000

233 years is freakin’ old. Isn’t it about time we let those poor guys retire?

By: Bram

Bram — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:23:34 +0000

Not sure what he is thinking. We used to put 28 rounds in the 30 rnd mags to save the springs. I used tracers fior 2 of the last 3 rounds to let me know I about out. Tracers won’t help spot grenades.