Comments on: Marines Being Marines

By: E3D

E3D — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:35:41 +0000

See, it’s crap like this that causes NCOs and SNCOs to look at junior enlisted Marines like we’re all illiterate juvenile delinquents. Thanks for helping to give every LCPL out there a bad name.

By: Ms Sparky

Ms Sparky — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:11:22 +0000

Camera off guys! You think you would have learned that by now. Thank God you have vests on.
Thanks for serving.
Ms Sparky

By: Wembley

Wembley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:18:08 +0000

I can’t believe the people here who are claiming that all soldiers and marines are this stupid.
They’re not.
And anyone who would trust their lives to an idiot — is also an idiot. Messing around with loaded firearms is not the act of a professional, and I can’t see why you would expect them to be any smarter in action.

By: CR

CR — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:17:29 +0000

Ever wondered where the term “Died from non-combat related injuries.…” comes from?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:22:56 +0000

TDS4S hit the nail on the head.
As a platoon leader, I would have had no choice but to stop stuff like this if I were present but I knew my guys might have done stuff like this when I or another SNCO wasn’t around.
All you can do as a leader is remind them that this is how parents end up getting a folded flag and a visit from the brass with condolences.
There is utopia and there is the real world. These guys are living in the real world. No — they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on if something went wrong but it is what it is.
Joes will be Joes (in this case Marines)and I would still want them on my side any day of the week.
PS– folks need to stop acting so shocked and accept that young fighting men will be EDGY and at times unnecessarily unsafe.

By: SMSgt Mac

SMSgt Mac — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:23:56 +0000

I wonder what their Gunny is having them do now? Really, I won’t pretend I didn’t do stupid things up until I was junior NCO (I admit I was promoted too fast to Sgt), but you can be damned sure I didn’t do it with cameras rolling. Since we are a video nation now, this kind of goofing off is just going to get harder and harder to do without it biting you in the rear. That SHOULD discourage horseplay even more in the future, but it is up to the NCOs to keep things from getting as surreal as the environment.

By: Xaldian

Xaldian — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:48:31 +0000

I don’t see the problem with the video. I would trust these guys with my life. You honestly think they are any different than any other US soldier during any other war? You think the guys in WWII just sat around playing cards? Hell no, stuff got interesting. Just be thank full they aren’t going around sodomizing sheep or testing out their armor with live fire. As to the French gentleman. There is a reason why you make fun of your military, its cause it has a horrible track record, try winning a war and it will stop.

By: Jack D. Ripper

Jack D. Ripper — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:43:52 +0000

Doing something really stupid? Make sure the cameras are off/

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:21:34 +0000

With my sense of humor I could argue that if even a Frenchie feel worry with this video it’s really a problem.
And amazingly Us citizen seems to agree with me.
More seriously, I don’t think that you take care of the nationality of the men on your side when you are under the same fire; like yours and ours on a-stan. French problem reside more in politics than really in military capabilities and I don’t post to insult anyone or even compare Us military to anyone else due to the technical, financial, numerous gap with every other countries.
But like I fell shame for us when Us troops march past on the Champs Elysee at WWII victory celebration under whistle, I feel shame for you when I see a video like this, destroying the attempt to support you on this side of the pound.
This guys could be russian, chinese or even french I will post the same comment. You don’t do this with firearms. Never.
Particularly in my place of birth we knows what we owe to Us Soldiers.But time passed since WWII when my grandfather shared the few coffee he had with G.I of the 5th Infantry Division on his home.
And never ours troops on the field (suez, dien bien phu, algeria…) dishonoring their uniforms.
I won’t write the same with politicians…
You could think what you want but don’t miss your real foe in this “green war”.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:41:41 +0000

“facepalm”, as my kids say.
these are the guys that I would have to keep an eye on in my section– good in a fight, but also likely to get us in one. sad fact of it is that physically brave 20-year-olds are pretty cheap, smart ones are a little harder to find.