With the Young Marines? Or does the Corps run it? :hmmm:

EDIT: Sorry for the off-topic...

Pretty sure he means to say that he enlisted in the USMC and is going to boot camp some time this summer.

Probably did like me graduated high school and went to boot camp a few days later.

He is not there yet though he'd not be posting here if he where. He is regretting choosing to enlist at a point which requires attendance of basic training during the summer.

Actually this is a benefit as in the summer portions of days will assuredly get black flagged due to heat index in other words a little bit less PT still it will suck but it is what it is.

I doubt it since he's told me he's not done with high school yet.

Figured it would be something like what I do.... :ping:

I'd assume it will be one of these: https://au.answers.yahoo.com/questio...5001936AA68Xhd

IIRC he said he was 14 yo so unlikely that he'd be accepted into the Corps yet.

Never heard of the Devil Pups. Heh. Nice naming.

Looks like a more boy-scoutish version of what I do. Cool though! :arrgh!:

I'd like to get out and do more of this kind of thing. I've been looking at Pathfinder School that's reopened for Civil Air Patrol here at Ft. Leonard Wood....or Hawk Mountain Ranger School... And at some point I'm going to go back to "our" boot camp and staff it as an NCO.

I have been reading a book containing the accounts of members of the 101st Airborne(entire division) during the Battle of the Bulge it is actually a 3 part series Normandy,Holland and Bulge. But reading it just makes me realize just how strange things turn out for one person to another in combat.

I saw a Marine officer who had been in Afghanistan say that war is all about centimeters and millimeters just a little difference one way or the other is the difference between surviving and dying victory and defeat.

Every major battle in history could have gone either way.

One of the most interesting aspects of D-Day was the general scattering of the airborne forces this was actually not the plan at all but in the end it worked out for the better that they did get scattered because it confused the Germans to some extent.A good fighting force can adapt when things do not go according to plan. which is about 75% of the time.

No, just in Devil Pups. If I had joined, I would not be looking forward to Parris Island this summer. Add the fact that I'll be trying for the SEALs first, I won't be going to that island.

Not that I disrespect the Corps.

From the other side..

Quote:

The German soldier 'liberated' by D-Day

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27730193

I doubt many allied prisoners thought similarly.

I don't want to derail this but my grandfather almost starved as an American POW some time after D-Day so the feeling might be mutual.:-?

Herr Roemer appears to be the exception.

Funny old world, part of my great-grandfathers duties when he (finally) got to Africa, was, as a MP to work at a POW camp, he wasn't there long but somehow he managed to get a Hitler Jugend knife and a Luger pistol which he brought back with him.

I just found this whilst reading up on POW camps in N.Africa, un-sure how true it is, but one of those interesting little tales, although I suspect the gentleman in question has since died:

Oh, and to keep the thread on topic, here's a picture I found on my twitter today:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bpd8VCkCAAACtMX.jpg
Gliders passing over HMS Ramilles and Warspite

This is what I dislike about history. When the war is won and the treaty signed, few think of the defeated sides' account, and, though unbiased writers do it, the History texts I read glorify the 'good guys' or victor's wins, and the loser's (aka, 'bad guy') are simple two sentence paragraphs.

As Treyarch put it:
"History is written by the victor."- Capt. Price.

Well first you have to complete Navy or Marine Corps Basic before you can try out for BUDs so that would be your second step.

Another thing is...living out on the West Coast he wouldn't go to Parris Island anyway.

MCRD San Diego is where he'd go. Parris Island is for the guys East of the Mississippi River.

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