no bilge rat, you are the slobbering half-wit for going where it is unsafe.
trust me, half-wit, NO place on the planet is entirely unsafe. trust me also,
half-wit, when I tell you that should you be a stupid enough ****ing idiot to
place yourself repeatedly in extremely dangerous positions where you need a
weapon, you are going to crack up.
even in war, tense moments are far fewer than the movies and news magazines
would have you civilians believe. Let me tell about the time I read 14 pages
of a 15 page article in Time about a ferocious battle waged for several days.
I was indeed glad to have missed that battle, for my fellow Marines were taking
a pasting, but pulled through. On page 14 I learned the battle had taken place
exactly at the location I had been at for three months and somehow none of us
noticed. (keep in mind I was in field artillery, and artillery ALWAYS knows
when there is action anywhere with range of our cannon. We cause the action
amongst the other guys.)

(Bilgeman)
Date: 10/15/2004 10:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

jaxashby's war story:

-they weren't actually pirates and they didn't actually make it, but they
were in fact carrying AK-47's backed up by mortar, rockets, and at one point
with heavy artillery, and there were thousands of them. The closest a bullet
ever came to my head was about six inches (bullets at 6 inches make a
different
sound from bullets at 12 inches which is different from two feet from 5 feet
from 10 feet, etc). Did get some shrapnel (a piece of which I still carry)
but
that was from a mortar, which I except no pirate would be carrying, so it
doesn't count.-

Bilge-I'll wager that you were holding something a little more lethal than a
charged 2.5 inch firehose, though.

Unfortunately for us professional mariners, the various "gun control" laws
do
NOTHING more than leave us with a hose, you slobbering half-wit.

GFY


Mutiny is a Management Tool
Select Your Tattoo while Sober

JAXAshby wrote:
no bilge rat, you are the slobbering half-wit for going where it is unsafe.
trust me, half-wit, NO place on the planet is entirely unsafe. trust me also,
half-wit, when I tell you that should you be a stupid enough ****ing idiot to
place yourself repeatedly in extremely dangerous positions where you need a
weapon, you are going to crack up.

ROFL Well, Doodles, at least you're consistent.... another stupid,
uninformed response.
The guy's not a yachtsman, he's a merchant sailor. He goes where the
ship goes and the ship goes where the cargo is, which means he can
easily end up in areas of the world that aren't "Smallville,USA"......
EG Hell, if he's really unlucky, he could end up in Brooklyn or Hoboken.

otn

so, clown, a merchant marine needs to caryy illegal weapons to protect himself?


and, just WTF does this have to do with rec boats in Mexico?

over the knee, go sleep it off.

otnmbrd
Date: 10/15/2004 10:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: . net



JAXAshby wrote:
no bilge rat, you are the slobbering half-wit for going where it is unsafe.

trust me, half-wit, NO place on the planet is entirely unsafe. trust me
also,
half-wit, when I tell you that should you be a stupid enough ****ing idiot
to
place yourself repeatedly in extremely dangerous positions where you need a
weapon, you are going to crack up.

ROFL Well, Doodles, at least you're consistent.... another stupid,
uninformed response.
The guy's not a yachtsman, he's a merchant sailor. He goes where the
ship goes and the ship goes where the cargo is, which means he can
easily end up in areas of the world that aren't "Smallville,USA"......
EG Hell, if he's really unlucky, he could end up in Brooklyn or Hoboken.

otn

JAXAshby wrote:
so, clown, a merchant marine needs to caryy illegal weapons to protect himself?


and, just WTF does this have to do with rec boats in Mexico?

over the knee, go sleep it off.

Phew, I see what Shen is getting at. Doodles, you're more "off the wall"
with every post.
I'd tell YOU to go sleep it off, but I'm betting booze is the least of
your problems.

otn

Weapons
Co. 1st Bn, 4th Marines. You may have heard of us...

nope, never heard of you.

the 4th has been around
long-long time

yeah, probably since the days of the experimental Smedley.

Actually, the 4th Div was a bunch of Med cruisers with no need for weapons
other than "raincoats" when I was in. That changed?

jaxashby the liar:

-nope, never heard of you-

Bilge-Gotcha, you lyin' sack of crap! You claim to have been in the Marines,
and yet claim you've never heard of the 4th? The "China Marines"...the only
Marine regiment to have surrendered (on Corregidor), The one later
reconstituted from the Marine Raiders and ParaMarines?

The regiment that tore it up around Dai Do in 1968, where James Livingston won
the Medal? I had the honor of serving under Lt. Col. Livingston's command as a
recruit in Boot Camp.

You're a total fraud, buster.

If you really had been in the Marines, you would have known that we identify
ourselves by company or battery, battalion, and regiment, in that order.

Had you actually been in Marine Corps Artillery, your regiment would most
likely have been the 10th, 11th,12th or 13th Marines.
Infantry regiments in your era being numbered from the 1st Marines to the
"Walking Dead" 9th Marines.

When deployed, the Corps, for reasons known only to the Commandant and God,(in
that order), will "OpConn" to a 20-series regiment. Thus, while I was in 1st
Bn, 4th Marines, I was simultaneously in the 27th Marines(Regiment) of the 7th
Marine Amphibious Brigade(MAB).
If and when deployed in battalion or reinforced battalion strength, we would
have been known as the 27th Marine Expeditionary Unit,(MEU)

Now, as to Divisions, I was in the 3rd Marine Division. The 4th has been, and
to my knowledge still is the Reserve Division.

This is all stuff you should have known, if you really were who and what you
claim to be.

And in the event that you really were what you claim, why should ANYONE heed
the advice of an artilleryman about small-unit weapons and tactics when there's
an infantryman to hand?

Semper GFY


Mutiny is a Management Tool
Select Your Tattoo while Sober

The regiment that tore it up around Dai Do in 1968

I left country three days before Tet, rotated out, my tour up.

your regiment would most
likely have been the 10th, 11th,12th or 13th Marines.

11th.

The 4th has been, and
to my knowledge still is the Reserve Division.

that was the 5th, not the fourth, as I recall. a high school friend was in the
26th, a unit that fought 56 pitched battles in 52 weeks, according the Stars
and Stripes I read while there. The friend required medication for close to
twenty years later.

I had the honor of serving under Lt. Col. Livingston's command as a
recruit in Boot Camp.


When I went through boot camp, the commander was a major general by the name of
Hockmuth. how come your boot camp commander held such a low rank?

btw, Hockmuth was the highest ranking person to be killed in combat in Vietnam.

btw-2, artillerymen laughed at how happy radio packers like yourself were to
tell everyone *they* carried a "Prick Ten" on their back.

did you Brasso your ammo and spit shine your boots?