Some marines are stupid

If you all didn't know I'm in Iraq right now. Now then. My entire base was woken up at 04:30 and put on full alert. It turns out we had a missing marine. Usually in these cases it's because he got lost on patrol or he was kidnapped. Not this one. This one has gone missing before on base in the states and this isn't the first time he has gone missing over here in Iraq. This guy has a knack for hiding and sleeping in odd places. Last time we found him asleep at the heli port. After 3 hours of the entire base searching we found him again. A patrol sent out into the city found him hiding a couple blocks down. A lone marine in full gear in full daylight thought it would be wise to leave the base and make a run for it back to America. From what I heard he had planned to sell all his gear to some Iraqis to get traveling money. All I know is that every marine in this base wants and is going to kick his ass every time they see him.

 

Well, if you wanna go home, you wanna go home...
Kick him once for me to, will you?

 

Ditto

--Piper

 

You should tie him up to a lamppost (if you find any) and leave him there.

 

I think I've slept and/or pissed on about half the helipads in Iraq, but that's just part of being a crewchief.

 

I, too, understand why he wants to go home. He might be stupid, but every man can do mistakes. And this time, he probably made a misstake. And a BIG one, at that.

 

To insure that he doesn't run away again he has been locked up in the detainee center with the iraqis. He gets his own private room in there so it's not like he is receiving any lovin. Also he knew he couldn't make it to America so he was trying for Jordan. And get this. The only reason that patrol found him is because the locals in town flagged down the humvees and they all started pointing at a house talking about a lone marine. Even they didn't want him.

 

Some people just don't belong...

 

Poor sucker.

 

He's a boot and has no connections. And the last time I was here a guy shot himself in the arm and blamed a sniper. He got caught and is in jail now. He was also a boot.

 

they could always serve out their contract with honor. after all, they made the decision to join in the first place. it's not like we have a draft.

 

No offence, but your army doesn't really seem very well-educated or well disciplined.

 

There are fuckoffs in every branch of service, no doubt about it, but you don't sound very educated yourself when you show that you don't understand the difference between the U.S. Marine Corps, from whence came the afore mentioned fuckoffs, and the U.S. Army, which was not being discussed until you decided to open your mouth about a topic you know nothing about.

While most of us here would agree that this war is a fucking waste of time and resources, don't be too quick to insult the military that is fighting it. And while there are plenty of fuckoffs in the U.S. military, 99.9% of them are more disciplined and educated than you, and our worst soldiers and stupidest marines have accomplished more than you probably ever will you piece of shit.

 

First of all I was talking about the Marine Corp. You should never mistake a Marine for an Army soldier. Vice Versa. Also like Japes said, there are morons in every branch of the military. For every platoon there is one Piles. As for well-educated... well we did join the military. The fact is not every one is made for the military, especially the Marines. But I guess not every one can be a spartan warrior like myself.

 

Hmmmm I don't see a written law against it, so I suppose knock yourself out.

 

That would be nice, but the Marines standard procedure is to take him behind the barracks and beat motivation into him.