Navy has been paroling the Big East shores for a while now. AFA started flirting with them and that was the initial bombing. AFA pulled out and is waiting for further instruction. Now the Nay has sent the Marines in to secure the beach head for them to unload off shore (2015). Once safe the Army will roll in to set up camp and secure the borders and make a flight line so AFA has a secure place to land and set up all their fancy gizmos.
Once the area is completely secure it will be no time before BYU arrives and starts going door to door to convert the heathens. Hopefully this will spurn the Notre Dame to send in their missionaries as well.
(01-25-2012 12:24 AM)PoiseState Wrote: Navy has been paroling the Big East shores for a while now. AFA started flirting with them and that was the initial bombing. AFA pulled out and is waiting for further instruction. Now the Nay has sent the Marines in to secure the beach head for them to unload off shore (2015). Once safe the Army will roll in to set up camp and secure the borders and make a flight line so AFA has a secure place to land and set up all their fancy gizmos.
Once the area is completely secure it will be no time before BYU arrives and starts going door to door to convert the heathens. Hopefully this will spurn the Notre Dame to send in their missionaries as well.
(01-25-2012 12:24 AM)PoiseState Wrote: Navy has been paroling the Big East shores for a while now. AFA started flirting with them and that was the initial bombing. AFA pulled out and is waiting for further instruction. Now the Nay has sent the Marines in to secure the beach head for them to unload off shore (2015). Once safe the Army will roll in to set up camp and secure the borders and make a flight line so AFA has a secure place to land and set up all their fancy gizmos.
Once the area is completely secure it will be no time before BYU arrives and starts going door to door to convert the heathens. Hopefully this will spurn the Notre Dame to send in their missionaries as well.
The Navy's on parole? :gasp:
Would love it if AFA and BYU came on board, and the current members would have to change their shorts if ND came off the fence for the BE...
But the only way Army joins is if more high caliber recruits want to "be all that you can be"...
(01-25-2012 12:24 AM)PoiseState Wrote: Navy has been paroling the Big East shores for a while now. AFA started flirting with them and that was the initial bombing. AFA pulled out and is waiting for further instruction. Now the Nay has sent the Marines in to secure the beach head for them to unload off shore (2015). Once safe the Army will roll in to set up camp and secure the borders and make a flight line so AFA has a secure place to land and set up all their fancy gizmos.
Once the area is completely secure it will be no time before BYU arrives and starts going door to door to convert the heathens. Hopefully this will spurn the Notre Dame to send in their missionaries as well.
(01-25-2012 12:24 AM)PoiseState Wrote: Navy has been paroling the Big East shores for a while now. AFA started flirting with them and that was the initial bombing. AFA pulled out and is waiting for further instruction. Now the Nay has sent the Marines in to secure the beach head for them to unload off shore (2015). Once safe the Army will roll in to set up camp and secure the borders and make a flight line so AFA has a secure place to land and set up all their fancy gizmos.
Once the area is completely secure it will be no time before BYU arrives and starts going door to door to convert the heathens. Hopefully this will spurn the Notre Dame to send in their missionaries as well.
The Navy's on parole? :gasp:
Would love it if AFA and BYU came on board, and the current members would have to change their shorts if ND came off the fence for the BE...
But the only way Army joins is if more high caliber recruits want to "be all that you can be"...
The other day my friend and I were talking about the 500 Billion dollar cut back mostly from the Army. He did two tours in Iraq, one during the initial part of the war and one as a contractor for Triple Canopy where he worked side by side with soldiers.
He said that the Army needs to have less amount of people and more actually well trained soldiers. The motto we had in the Marine Corps was that one well trained Marine is worth more than 5 badly trained ones. This is not the Army of years past, it has become a glorified mall security company. There is a huge chasm between the combat M.O.S's in the Army then the others. It is not surprising that their football team is a reflection of the Army as a whole.
The special forces in the Army are on par with any of the special forces in the country. It is just your regular Army individuals are under trained, undisciplined, overweight or out of shape in today's army. Obviously this is not everyone.
Just in case I get blasted by some Army dogs, here is some food for thought. I used to be in the Army before I joined the Marine Corps. Yes I did go to boot camp twice and believe me there is a huge difference between the two. It starts with basic training and continues on trough your enlistment.
(01-25-2012 12:24 AM)PoiseState Wrote: Navy has been paroling the Big East shores for a while now. AFA started flirting with them and that was the initial bombing. AFA pulled out and is waiting for further instruction. Now the Nay has sent the Marines in to secure the beach head for them to unload off shore (2015). Once safe the Army will roll in to set up camp and secure the borders and make a flight line so AFA has a secure place to land and set up all their fancy gizmos.
Once the area is completely secure it will be no time before BYU arrives and starts going door to door to convert the heathens. Hopefully this will spurn the Notre Dame to send in their missionaries as well.
The Navy's on parole? :gasp:
Would love it if AFA and BYU came on board, and the current members would have to change their shorts if ND came off the fence for the BE...
But the only way Army joins is if more high caliber recruits want to "be all that you can be"...
The other day my friend and I were talking about the 500 Billion dollar cut back mostly from the Army. He did two tours in Iraq, one during the initial part of the war and one as a contractor for Triple Canopy where he worked side by side with soldiers.
He said that the Army needs to have less amount of people and more actually well trained soldiers. The motto we had in the Marine Corps was that one well trained Marine is worth more than 5 badly trained ones. This is not the Army of years past, it has become a glorified mall security company. There is a huge chasm between the combat M.O.S's in the Army then the others. It is not surprising that their football team is a reflection of the Army as a whole.
The special forces in the Army are on par with any of the special forces in the country. It is just your regular Army individuals are under trained, undisciplined, overweight or out of shape in today's army. Obviously this is not everyone.
Just in case I get blasted by some Army dogs, here is some food for thought. I used to be in the Army before I joined the Marine Corps. Yes I did go to boot camp twice and believe me there is a huge difference between the two. It starts with basic training and continues on trough your enlistment.
I was in the Army (Airborne Ranger) in Vietnam, dude. It was the same then. A good percentage of soldiers were strung out junkies ready to shoot at anything that moved. But that's always been the case in that part of the world...
Combat does weed out the truly stupid pretty quick. But it changes a person too, and not for the better...
By the time the Vietnam War ended, nearly 70% of Army combat personnel were using drugs, and hepatitis infections among vets of that era was at an all time high. There are a lot of veterans today that are dying while waiting for a liver transplant needed because of the hepatitis they contracted in the military...
However, the government has decided it's cheaper to let most of them die. That's exactly what is happening with the vast majority. The survival rate among vets in such a situation is less than 10%...
Those that survive long enough to receive a transplant have better than a 90% chance of survival. But only 1 in 10 lives long enough to get that chance...
(01-25-2012 12:24 AM)PoiseState Wrote: Navy has been paroling the Big East shores for a while now. AFA started flirting with them and that was the initial bombing. AFA pulled out and is waiting for further instruction. Now the Nay has sent the Marines in to secure the beach head for them to unload off shore (2015). Once safe the Army will roll in to set up camp and secure the borders and make a flight line so AFA has a secure place to land and set up all their fancy gizmos.
Once the area is completely secure it will be no time before BYU arrives and starts going door to door to convert the heathens. Hopefully this will spurn the Notre Dame to send in their missionaries as well.
The Navy's on parole? :gasp:
Would love it if AFA and BYU came on board, and the current members would have to change their shorts if ND came off the fence for the BE...
But the only way Army joins is if more high caliber recruits want to "be all that you can be"...
The other day my friend and I were talking about the 500 Billion dollar cut back mostly from the Army. He did two tours in Iraq, one during the initial part of the war and one as a contractor for Triple Canopy where he worked side by side with soldiers.
He said that the Army needs to have less amount of people and more actually well trained soldiers. The motto we had in the Marine Corps was that one well trained Marine is worth more than 5 badly trained ones. This is not the Army of years past, it has become a glorified mall security company. There is a huge chasm between the combat M.O.S's in the Army then the others. It is not surprising that their football team is a reflection of the Army as a whole.
The special forces in the Army are on par with any of the special forces in the country. It is just your regular Army individuals are under trained, undisciplined, overweight or out of shape in today's army. Obviously this is not everyone.
Just in case I get blasted by some Army dogs, here is some food for thought. I used to be in the Army before I joined the Marine Corps. Yes I did go to boot camp twice and believe me there is a huge difference between the two. It starts with basic training and continues on trough your enlistment.
Does this laxness affect the active duty ranks equally or is it more prevalent amongst Army Reserve or National Guard units?
I'm an ex-Navy guy, and I've worked in combat situations with people from every branch of service. I think the Army gets a bad reputation from their willingness to accept lower standards for recruitment, during times of war. The thought being that you can train the bad traits out of an individual. This may be true for a minority % of the total sum, but it's a risky bet at best. The Marine who posted earlier is spot on. One well trained individual is worth 5 poorly trained individuals. But to be fair, every branch has its share of washouts, the Army probably has more because of its size. That being said, I served with alot of outstanding Army personnel. But I was usually more comfortable around fellow Navy and Marine Corp folks.
I was in the Navy and the National Guard. This is BS! marines are stupid and do not think! That is the way they train. Navy personnel only know one job. The Army soldier has know many jobs. The Army is larger and has a lot of people that go manuel labor but so does the real world. However, I have to give the Marine Corp credit, because in over 200 years of serving under the Navy and guardng Naval Base Gates, nobody has stolen one yet!
(This post was last modified: 01-29-2012 04:45 PM by Wilkie01.)
(01-28-2012 11:11 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote: I was in the Navy and the National Guard. This is BS! marines are stupid and do not think! That is the way they train. Navy personnel only know one job. The Army soldier has know many jobs. The Army is larger and has a lot of people that go manuel labor but so does the real world. However, I have to give the Marine Corp credit, because in over 200 of serving under the Navu and guardng Naval Base Gates, nobody has stolen one yet!
All the Navy is to the Marine Corps is a TAX! While you are sweeping and mopping on ship we are sleeping, eating, and working out. You might as well be working at a motel.
(01-28-2012 03:07 PM)Knightsweat Wrote: MARINE = My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment, or more obscurely known as Naval Infantry. Marines hate the fact that they are a department of the Navy.
Can't view the video but I'm sure it's interesting, coming from a devil dog. And yes, the dungarees uniform was horrible. We more lovingly called them prisoner uniforms. But hey! It's a new Navy, with the new BDU's replacing them. I spent alot of my time in flight suits or BDU's when I served.
Although BYU will never come aboard- they hate Comcast. AFA and Even Army may eventually come aboard, and likely one more Western School to get to 14.. UNLV wont split up their sports- so Ill say FS is the likely candidate- So the Big East will have a formidable presence in California with 2 Cali Schools..
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