Yesterday I briefly talked about what it means to be a Marine Gunrock.
I started with hard work.
What else does it mean to be a Marine Gunrock?
It means times of hardships, misery and opposition.
It means boxes of junk like this will be considered more valuable than gold.
I'm in pictures two and three, btw.
It means wading through unhealthy water trying to find lost gear that is essential to the mission.
It means risking shrapnel to your body to get relief from the 120degree heat.
Being a Gunrock means having to sleep almost anywhere. Even if that means the only flat part of ground you can find puts a tree in the middle of your precious tent. The one and only thing separating you from 50mph winds of freezing temperatures.
It also means facing opposition in places you didn't know you weren't wanted. Like the middle of nowhere, Japan.
It means humping a 50 lb pack through the rolling, snow-covered hills of Japan in sub-freezing temperatures.
I started with hard work.
What else does it mean to be a Marine Gunrock?
It means times of hardships, misery and opposition.
It means boxes of junk like this will be considered more valuable than gold.
I'm in pictures two and three, btw.
It means wading through unhealthy water trying to find lost gear that is essential to the mission.
It means risking shrapnel to your body to get relief from the 120degree heat.
Being a Gunrock means having to sleep almost anywhere. Even if that means the only flat part of ground you can find puts a tree in the middle of your precious tent. The one and only thing separating you from 50mph winds of freezing temperatures.
It also means facing opposition in places you didn't know you weren't wanted. Like the middle of nowhere, Japan.
It means humping a 50 lb pack through the rolling, snow-covered hills of Japan in sub-freezing temperatures.
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Explains my question on your part 1 of this story, Japan can get fucking cold.
They might also not like us because of the location - find Oita, Japan on a map. Then find Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Can we have a similar series on what corrections officers do?
If i am smoking something, I'm sure I'll get told.
And oxdottir, I am out, but in the inactive reserves.
"please note that asterisk
* we reserve the right to own your ass for the next 4 years should we feel the need to recall you for other bullshit wars that are waged without premise or legally justified. we hold no responsibility to care for or otherwise pay for damages you sustain while providing services for the United States of America."
Only I have three years, not four.
Chances are very little that I will get recalled, and even if I do, I'm most likely to fill in a job on base somewhere that was vacated when a unit deployed.
Only recently, in 2004, did they deploy abroad as a military force, and this was at the request of the US. They joined in the occupation of Iraq as one of the 'Coalition of the Willing' (nice little token for the Bush Administration to have as many industrialized first world nations on there as possible), it made big news at the time, as this was the first real military action the Japanese army participated in since WW2. But if I recall correctly it was mainly a token force that was sent, and mostly they guarded bases in Kuwait.
And here's hoping you don't get re-upped MGR, or if you do, that there's a nice cushy base job waiting for you in some warm sunny lower 48 state close to home.
When I have time I'll write more about it and I'd like very much to know what you think (but for now I'm too busy for that).
Poo poo on anyone bringing up similar incidents, on this post-a diversion at best, and a low-blow, out of context jab, ad nauseum. How did we get from the "everyday as a gunrock," to ISOLATED SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS B/T CIVS AND U.S. SOLDIERS??? Answer: Some folks who live in denial of the paradigm they find themselves in, use a universally acceptable example of man's inhumanity to man, (rape, in this case), in order to justify their idyllic, fantasies.
No different than Code Pink, and their tunnel-reality, bitter, spoiled-brat tactics.
Gunrock, yer head still shaped like a jar?? Don't ever soften up mate, get harder!!!