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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:02 PM
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How do you knock out a platoon of U.S. Marines in two easy steps?
1. Throw a bucket of water on a brick wall and yell "Hit the beach!"
2. Repeat step one.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:04 PM
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1. I don't get it...
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:14 PM
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4. Are you out of the Marines or are you still in?
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:25 PM
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12. hahahhahahahhaha!
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 05:56 PM
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16. Never was in, have never been in
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:51 PM
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19. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you may have served. ;-)
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 08:27 PM
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36. That's okay
I'm exempt do to medical problems.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:07 PM
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2. I must tell my grandfather this (30+year Coast Guard and Navy man)
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:16 PM
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6. We do love to tease the Marines, but they're handy in a firefight.
:patriot:
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:25 PM
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11. He used to talk about getting into fights with them
in bars...
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:54 PM
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21. No shit, Pard, and when Marines came into town the prices...
on ALL the local valuable items doubled!
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:10 PM
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3. ha ha
:rofl:
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:17 PM
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7. Hee hee hee!
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puerco-bellies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:15 PM
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5. LOL.. (Ex Navy) n/t
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:18 PM
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8. Zoomie here, Pard. Thank you for your service. :-)
:patriot:
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:21 PM
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9. Army folk are even easier to mess with.
Wait for them to pass out or fall asleep, then yell "Alert! Alert!" at the top of your lungs while running around in circles and waving your arms.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 06:17 PM
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17. My brother is former Army.
He'd tell you to fuck off.

His mouth got him into trouble all the time when he was in.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:04 AM
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23. Yeah, It would have gotten him an ass kicking in my part of Nam, too.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:01 AM
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22. No, no, no. That sounds reminescent of the standard alert...
in VietNam. It went like this:
When in trouble,
when in doubt,
run in circles,
scream and shout.

It worked for us.

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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 06:16 AM
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32. Actually, based on my experience in the Army, you're more likely to
get something heavy thrown at you than to get any other response.

:P

Us infantrymen really love our sleep :)
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:21 PM
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10. I heard it another way...
Instead of water, it was a handful of sand.

Be glad that I'm a former Marine with a sense of humor, or them's fighting words, lol.

:hi:
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:07 AM
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24. Welcome home, Marine! Thank you for your service.
;-)
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:40 PM
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13. That brick wall trick only works on lieutenants.
Possibly only second lieutenants.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:09 AM
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25. Sheeeeeeeit, the hell you say.
:)
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:43 PM
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14. In God we trust,everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.
Anything worth shooting,is worth shooting twice.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:31 AM
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27. Some things three times.
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:45 PM
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15. Helicopters go by a variety of names in the armed forces.
In the army they are choppers, in the navy it's helos. The marines just point and grunt, "ugh, ugh, ugh."
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:32 AM
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28. Oh, I see you know some Marines. ;-)
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 06:57 PM
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18. Wouldn't work on my old unit.
I was in a Marine Corps tank battalion.....
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:34 AM
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29. Oh, bull shit. it still had second louies in it.
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:48 AM
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33. So was I
:hi:
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:53 PM
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20. ...
:spray: :rofl:
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:35 AM
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30. Hee hee hee! I'm glad you enjoyed the joke. ;-)
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:14 AM
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26. This joke is a compliment to Marines.
Brick wall? Ha ha ha ha. Child's play. ;)
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:38 AM
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31. LOL! To some Marines I know, yes! U.ncle S.am's...
M.isguided C.hildren are a force to be reckoned with.
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:52 AM
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34. My favorite tranlation of USMC was
yoU Suckers Miss Christmas
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 10:54 AM
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39. Yep, it's so true. Marines catch the worst missions!
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Allenberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 08:05 AM
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35. At least they can figure out blousing straps
unlike the Army. :D
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 08:34 PM
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37. Hey! You're mean!
LOL, it was funny, but some of them are smart guys (my hubby for example).
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 02:59 AM
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38. ROFLOL! Being a dependent you are required by regulations...
to say that! Most of us vets learned in the school of hard knocks we could rely on Marines. Tell your hubby a zoomie Vet is sending him respect and thanks for his service. :)
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