Wait a dag-darned minute,,,

Seems some of my Fellow Marines have slipped thier cams or something,,,

Former Marine shooter in NC

Former Marine shooter in MIchigan

So much about each left unsaid and so much that could be spun on each.   That the one burned down a church at the same time before being terminated by Local LEOs, says something, but “what” I am not sure.  

The other,,, Firing into a crowded bar scene?    Seems dude had some greivances or something, but he didn’t get ventilated and is now sitting in the cooler, awaiting court proceedings and further investigation.

What the Hell BOYS?!?!?!     I mean, yeah, lifes rather shitty, but we were TAUGHT that during Boot, for fucks sake.   There ain’t nothin’ shittier than subjectin’ urself to a DI, with all of his halitosis, screaming down your pipes at 4 am.   The Marines have had and still have THE LONGEST Boot camp of all the services, and some of the toughest criteria for standard service pukes.   Take it to the Seals, Rangers, and Recon to get harder standards.   

I know I have an ugly side, one that could wipe out scores of people before I were taken down.   That ugly side is kept very much in check.   We were trained to keep that beast on a leash, with muzzles and shock collars and tasers if need be.    Seems to me that someone(s) decided that the beast needed let free for some reason, but I take great offense that they did so AGAINST OUR OWN PEOPLE.    I ain’t even gonna try to see that other side, that may have been used to “justify” thier actions to themselves.

Maybe they ate the blue crayons.   Or worse,,, the YELLOW ones,,,

>snark off<

Seriously, I have to wonder if the sandbox is going to have anything to do with these boys slipping their cams?    That was a fucked up mess from the word go, and I know a few guys that were pretty normal BEFORE their multiple back to back tours, sometimes to both sandboxes and back.  Now, they are the silent ones, the ones that say little to anyone, even their closest and most trusted wives.   I have seen marriages that were solid before deployment fall to shreds after return, with her saying “he isn’t the same person, not even close.”       This may be an invisible time bomb, waitng to go off in peoples heads,

and maybe that is what happened here.   Maybe???   Since I have ZERO connection to these shooters past the ‘we went to Marine Corps Boot camp’ thing, I don’t want to think to hard about it.

And since I was ‘indoctrinated’ in the late 80’s, I can’t say what changes took place in training after ’89.    I saw some of the guys coming out in 92 that seemed a little ‘soft’, not just in the head, but in body as well: we wrote that off to the mass recruiting that took place leading up to Desert Storm, when the recruiters were basically pulling every string to get more newbs, and then at the Depots, standards were relaxed a touch to get more cannon fodder out to the fleet.   At least thats what we thought then,,,, Did those criteria not ratchet back up later?    (Shush BCE,,, I know you are gonna say ‘every Marine is ‘soft’ in the head,,,’  x-p  )

Maybe its just all the “STRANGENESS” of the last three weeks finally pushing one of those soft-headed types over some threshold,,,,    

For the record, the events of the last few weeks have been strange, but NO WHERE NEAR what will make me walk down that hallway and unlock the cage to the beast.   There is a threshold there, but the bullshit of the world hasn’t reached that threshold yet.    Its gonna take a whole lot more than what we have seen to flip my switch.

I pity any place when the leathernecks slip their chains,,, 

LIVE

LOVE

LAUGH

Learn

LOAD

Let me know what you think, Hit that “LIKE” button, and make a comment.  T’anx!