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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I remember going to NTC one summer when I was in. All the guys from back east were really excited about going to CA. I had spent a fair amount of time in the Mojave prior to my service, and I tried to tell them what they were in for, but.... We flew in to Norton AFB and all was good. Then we headed east and they quickly realized that I wasn't bullshitting them. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| in the end karma always catches up |
Tell him to make sure that he puts the hull plugs in before crossing Lavic Lake. 29Palms has the best fire and maneuver training in the Marine Corps. By the way there is a base where you can walk right down to a beech with bikini clad women, it is called Camp Pendleton! " The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State" Art 1 Sec 32 Indiana State Constitution YAT-YAS | |||
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Truth Wins |
Thank you all for the kind words. _____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Excellent pics, thanks! I always loved the stumps. If you really want to learn your job it's the place to be. He plan on joining the Lake Bandini swim team?   | |||
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Please be sure to thank you son L/Cpl Parks for his service for me and Semper Fi. | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Yeah, from here, too. Congrats to the OP, and thanks and God bless to the son. I did about 9 years in the Third Armored Division, back in 1955-1966. Learned real quick to hate tanks. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Thanks for the photos. Handsome son, be proud. Thank you and your son for his service. NRA Life Endowment member Tri-State Gun collectors Life Member | |||
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Obviously not a golfer |
I like the casual, "this is totally not a selfie" quality of the first pic!! Looks like a good kid. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
As a sailor, I say better him than me. I m also thankful for his service. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Semper Fi! Thanks to your son for his service. | |||
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Thank him for his service. | |||
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When I got back from my "senior trip" to SE Asia in 1968, I had a choice of a couple different duty stations. 29 Stumps was one of them. Nope! Nope, nope, nope. ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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| Truth Wins |
He's not hating Twentynine Palms, yet. He hasn't spent a summer there, yet. _____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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Good for you, And please thank him for the rest of us. I've got a .22 lr paycheck and .41 mag tastes Rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6 | |||
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| Truth Wins |
Some of you may remember me sharing some photos of my son, who joined the Marines in June 2016 and graduated boot camp in September 2016. He's in the infantry and is presently in Okinawa preparing to go to Thailand for Gold Cobra 2018. He sent me a video of him having some fun in Okinawa. I made this video public on my FB page so anyone could see. https://www.facebook.com/rowla...os/1067019913439322/  _____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
I hope it doesn’t tip over while he is there. Good on him, and you, too. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I see he is serving with the "Old Breed" that Eugene Sledge wrote about... Tell him this retired CG Chief says, "Thanks for your service" "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
What flavor crayons does he like?  _____________ | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Indeed, sir. Thank your son for his service for me. For all of us, actually! Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| His Royal Hiney |
Just another day in the range... Nice firearm he's using. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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