Jonfrazier I owe you an apology. I really thought you were smoking crack when you mentioned this. My bad ...you were spot on...
When my I first heard this I thought you've got to be shitting me. That's so US Army that the Marine Corps wouldn't dare do it.
Well it looks like some dumb ass at HQMC wants us to be a second Army because that's whats happening.
Tradition.
Dead.
Uniqueness.
Dying.
Watch this pile of bullshit from Marine TV and cry for the Marine Corps. Instead of everyone trying to copy us, we're now copying them.
When my I first heard this I thought you've got to be shitting me. That's so US Army that the Marine Corps wouldn't dare do it.
Well it looks like some dumb ass at HQMC wants us to be a second Army because that's whats happening.
Tradition.
Dead.
Uniqueness.
Dying.
Watch this pile of bullshit from Marine TV and cry for the Marine Corps. Instead of everyone trying to copy us, we're now copying them.
Well I did post that after reading the maradmin related to it. A few of my fellow Sgt's and I had a long discussion about this Friday as we rolled our last MOTO rolls for what maybe the last time in corps history. The one thing we could agree on, was we will never be the army.
ReplyDeleteThe while point the corps rolled its sleeves like we did was to be different from the army and airforce when we all wore bdu's.
I personally do not feel this will degrade from the corps, I liked when your command choose what uniform you wore and how. Like 29 palms a few year ago was deserts year round sleeves down untill a new base sgtmaj came in and changed that.
Traditions are great but sometimes they need to change...like our tradition of acquiring ground combat vehicles.
Do I think our uniqueness is dying? No. We are still to this day one of the best services in the world at operating in a coin environment. And the most forward deployed conventional fighting force out there. No unrolling of sleeves.will do that.
We may not look so Sharp in the states, but I don't roll my sleves deployed anyways.