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And in completely unrelated news...
Marines, rejoice: Someone made crayons that are actually meant to be eaten
The edible (and writeable) crayons have a rectangular shape so kids, and Marines, know which ones are safe to eat, and which are not.
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Are crayons still ok?
Although old, it needed to be posted. One of the Code Talkers. 2016 Obit:
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Kellwood passed away Monday at a veteran's hospital in Phoenix. He served with the First Marine Division and saw battle on Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. After the war he was awarded the Congressional Silver Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Combat Action Ribbon, Naval Unit Commendation, Good Conduct, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and WWII Victory Medal.
Marine Corps Hymn in Navajo.
View: https://twitter.com/USMC/status/773311788729245696
Joe Hosteen Kellwood, a Navajo code talker during WWII, dies | CNN
Joe Hosteen Kellwood, a Navajo code talker who served in the Marines during World War II, died Monday at age 95.
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Kellwood passed away Monday at a veteran's hospital in Phoenix. He served with the First Marine Division and saw battle on Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. After the war he was awarded the Congressional Silver Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Combat Action Ribbon, Naval Unit Commendation, Good Conduct, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and WWII Victory Medal.
Marine Corps Hymn in Navajo.
View: https://twitter.com/USMC/status/773311788729245696
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I was on the deployment described below, but thankfully on another ship.
The embarked Marines got a flight back to the US, but we still beat them home streaming across the Atlantic.
KMM696
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So, the Air Guard is like a franchised restaurant chain - all basically the same, but can nonetheless taste very, very different.
Well that's just a silly overreaction. Marines weren't wearing reflective belts, deer were!
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One of my companies biggest nighttime misbehavers was our O3. This made getting in trouble while partying hard, as we'd have to exceed what our CPT was doing, which was considerable on several occasions.
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We had a few E7's who also would thrown down till they were essentially comatose.
It got to the point in Germany where we literally, and this is 100% true, followed a trail of blood (from a broken nose if I remember correctly) for about a mile from the bases bowling alley/bar to the barracks the guy was staying in.
This was there for days till it snowed out and washed it away.Damn we would thrown down hard. If I wasnt in my early 20's I wouldnt of survived it. Kudos to that O3 and the senior NCOs who could handle it.
Despite serving in a different service, that doesn't surprise me at all.One of my companies biggest nighttime misbehavers was our O3. This made getting in trouble while partying hard, as we'd have to exceed what our CPT was doing, which was considerable on several occasions.
We had a few E7's who also would thrown down till they were essentially comatose.
It got to the point in Germany where we literally, and this is 100% true, followed a trail of blood (from a broken nose if I remember correctly) for about a mile from the bases bowling alley/bar to the barracks the guy was staying in.
Damn we would thrown down hard. If I wasnt in my early 20's I wouldnt of survived it. Kudos to that O3 and the senior NCOs who could handle it.
We probably need a thread for all the crazy military stories.
Despite serving in a different service, that doesn't surprise me at all.
We probably need a thread for all the crazy military stories.
The problem is, the best ones are always about someone else because you can never remember your own crazy stories!
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An E-8 in my unit was a hardcore alcoholic and one night I got woken up and sent with a few of the other biggest guys in the unit to rescue him from a bar we weren’t supposed to go to. The company XO drove us in a GSA van.One of my companies biggest nighttime misbehavers was our O3. This made getting in trouble while partying hard, as we'd have to exceed what our CPT was doing, which was considerable on several occasions.
We had a few E7's who also would thrown down till they were essentially comatose.
It got to the point in Germany where we literally, and this is 100% true, followed a trail of blood (from a broken nose if I remember correctly) for about a mile from the bases bowling alley/bar to the barracks the guy was staying in.
Damn we would thrown down hard. If I wasnt in my early 20's I wouldnt of survived it. Kudos to that O3 and the senior NCOs who could handle it.
It was a local bucket of blood that too many guys got arrested or beat up in, so it was banned. This E-8 went there anyway by himself and got in some shit with the locals. They were waiting outside for him and we had to bring him back to base safely.
It involved a brief scuffle, but nothing serious. Rules for me but not for thee. I was a corporal at the time.
