The duty I think we were mostly reffering to is actual battlefield combat....the article mentioned a 34 year old female nurse crawling on the ground with a rifle.....if all the U.S.military can field with a rifle is 34 year old women, then I hope at least one of them can sing !

It never ceases to amaze me that some cannot accept the differences between the sexes and yet believe females are not competent at anything they set out to achieve that doesn't require testosterone fed body mass. Viva La Difference.
Hell even the four legged know the female is a better provider. The male lions let the females do the cooking so to speak. :p

That's true Aunty M. I even got an Expert Badge in my ribbon and memorabelia cache. But I believe we would all have been better off to get some actual live fire exercises and combat training. I packed a lot of Guard Mail, as it was called, and therefore packed a M1911A1 often. And then there was the serious hazardous duty, Shore Patrol

Geez, Oregonian, did your mom have any kids that lived?

You're starting to make Krusty look smart.

funny how often the ones on the front lines come home to become liiberal ....like my dad and other relatives did in vietnam after returning from the marine corps......

and how mouthy and conservative some of the ones become who didnt even really need rifle training.....like my grandpa the navy dentist and sardonicus.......

lupo, it must have been one of things where if you can't beat'em, join'em.....

I mean here these boys came home, many in a terrible state of mind, undoubtably tired and confused..............to be yelled at and spit on by packs of filthy, doped up liberal American citizens, I don't care who you are, that ain't funny.

Urband legend brought to you by your friendly neighborhood republican chickenhawks. Seems Nixon and Agnew were loosing support for their war efforts so they played the "patriotism card". Sound familiar?

Ironically, the first cases of spitting on vets were by pro-war supporters who spat on veterans that had joined the anti-war movement. WWII veterans that joined the movement were even labled as traitors and cowards. GOP ain't changed much, eh?

goharley;

You may well know much more than I do on that story so I will not debate your remarks, but niether can I discount storys that I've heard from the other side...........

Sure you can, you just have to do the research. I used to believe all those stories, too, and then I went looking for proof. Kinda like the WMD thing...

goharley;

I think you are absolutely correct...

Hi Lupo, you're still a dip sheep I see.
Btw G'harly, not all those stories are propaganda. I personally know a coupla Marines that went thru the Liberal love Orgy.
They were spit on and called nasty names by those Peaceniks. You know, the ones that would stab you in the back in the name of peace. Of course they exited the Corp via Mare Island into the loony capital of the West Coast. SFO I mean.