I'm 7 beers deep and starting the gauntlet HAPPY MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY ( got work tomorrow night so I'm doing it now)

On this, the eve of the Marine Corps birthday, we laid our dad to rest. In his 27 years of service, he served in Vietnam twice as a door gunner with the Ridgerunners starting in 1967, was a drill instructor at MCRD San Diego for 5 years as the literal Gunnie Highway, drank the water at Camp Legune and retired as a major. He raised us three girls with nicknames far more colorful than can be written here and taught us cadence lullabies (something about Eskimos being cold) . We doped him up with morphine and tried to hold his hand in his last days hoping to keep him comfortable. As we tucked him in, he uttered his final words "Get your goddamnned hands off me you sons of bitches."

Well I’m nearing the end of my contract, I really do love my job and I feel like reenlisting is what I want to do but then again I have the thought of my parents in the back of my head, as they continue to grow older I feel like I miss out on precious time with them. I’m not asking for anything specific just looking for some advice I guess.

Miss the clowns, not the circus… Happy birthday to all of you crazy ass motherfuckers!! Stay Lethal, stay Belligerant, and get hammered!

• Pic of my flag, folded. Semper Fi, Marines.

TLDR - man wrote a book about Woody Williams that Williams didn't like.

I was looking for something else when I ran across Williams v. Rigg, 19-cv-00423 (S.D.W. Va. Sep. 9, 2021) -

Rigg self-published the book in controversy entitled Flamethrower: Iwo Jima Medal of Honor Recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and His Controversial Award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War (“Flamethrower”). (ECF No. 47 at 4.) This book is currently being offered for sale on Amazon.com. (Id.)***

Williams became aware of additions to the manuscript which called into question his military actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the legitimacy of his Medal of Honor. (Id. at 8-9, ¶ 31.) Plaintiff alleges these statements are “defamatory and misleading.” (Id.) Plaintiff then requested the return of his personal materials, including handwritten journals, photographs, and any other materials provided to Defendant and also demanded that Defendant refrain from any unauthorized use of any drafts of the book that Plaintiff had not approved. (*Id.*at 9, ¶ 32-33.) Further, Plaintiff revoked his consent for Defendant to use his name, likeness, image, personal stories, etc., in connection with the book. (Id. ¶ 34.) Plaintiff alleges that Defendant refused to return Plaintiff's personal materials and went  ahead with the publication of the book without Plaintiff's permission and without allowing Plaintiff the opportunity to review and comment on any further drafts. (Id. at 10, ¶¶ 35-36.)

I have no idea why someone would question the award of a Blue Max, especially after talking to the recipient. And why do it 70 years after the action?

4.5 stars on Amazon. The Amazon reviewers include some notable senior Marines.

So here I am, drunk on the eve of the greatest day known to man… and I have to ask. What is the most preferred beverage of marines to celebrate this most auspicious day?

Do we bring in the day with beer? To go straight to liquor? Both? When I call up my junior guys… do we take shots over FaceTime?

God damn. What do you fancy motherfuckers drink today?

Conduct Unbecoming

I've seen all the good movies so all I'm left with is the bad ones. I kind of like some of the bad ones just because it gives me something to make fun of, every now and again they hit a cringe nerve and I love it.
What's some of your favorite worst Marine movies. I need to cue some stuff up for the next watch.

I mean it’s in regs

I am currently enlisted with 7 years TIS and selected for Staff just waiting to get pinned on. I like my MOS field but I have always wanted to fly and I currently plan to attain all my ratings through my GI Bill. I had previously thought about applying for MECEP, but I have a fear of lack of MOS choice. I don't want to go all that way and end up as a SuppO and being even less fulfilled than I am now. My question is do any of you guys have experience with MECEP and know if there is a way to get an aviation guarantee before you even go to OCS. A little background, I am 25 and I should wrap up my associates degree using TA in about a year.

I was permanent personnel on Parris Island from 94-98. We had a dude get a sweet gig getting new recruits off the plane in Charleston at the Air Force Base there and he would also be billeted on that base. He decided to use the military van they were assigned to use to visit his girlfriend in Savannah, Georgia some 80 miles away. On the way back, he stops at a gas station to put some gas in the van, no harm no foul right? Well, he puts diesel fuel in the van. He starts off going back to Charleston when all of a sudden the van stalls on him. He leaves the government van on the side of the road and somehow manages to get back to Charleston. The next day when someone starts looking for the van, he says he left the keys with one of the other Marines detailed there with him in Charleston. The command scrambles to find the van and the civilian police locate it on the side of the road somewhere between Savannah and Charleston. So, needless to say, they found out that he was responsible for this fiasco and he is sent back to our unit on PI. After he is sent back to us, he was devastated about losing his former cushy job. He ends up going to the chaplain and telling him that he was going to break into our gunny’s house and tie him up and when his wife walked in the front door home from work, he was going to slit gunny’s throat. It was the fastest I had ever seen anyone get out of the Corps. He was out within a week.

I could write a book about the shit I saw take place on that island over the course of four years. I was stationed there when the DI crawled up to the diving board and shot himself inside at the pool qual facility in front of recruits. The night before he made me a sub at the Subway. He was working there while they pulled him off his DI billet for another DUI he received. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-27-mn-13516-story.html. I was also there when Riddick Bowe attempted recruit training for a few days. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/02/22/bowe-bows-out-of-marine-corps/. The first month I was there a recruit was killed when his M-16 was struck by lightning out at the rifle range when they were being moved off the range. The lightning then branched out from his rifle and hit a few other recruits severely burning them. https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1995/08/23/Lightning-kills-1-Marine-injures-5/5193809150400/. One recruit died during hitting skills when we used to box in a 4 ft x 4 ft ring. That’s why they no longer do CQB boxing in bootcamp anymore. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/mar/09/recruits-boxing-death-wont-halt-marine-bouts/ . One of the other DI’s I knew committed suicide out of the blue. We had no idea she was being abused at home. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/aug/22/caffeine-overdose-kills-drill-instructor/ . Another DI shot herself because she had an injury that was going to put her out of the Corps. This doesn’t even touch on my friends that were kicked out for drugs and other bullshit in my unit. My roommate raped the lady that tended to the yogurt machine in the messhall. I had to testify at his court martial. I can count on one hand the Marines in my unit that got out with Honorable discharges. I went back to Parris Island a few years back to watch my fiancé’s grandson graduate bootcamp and I quickly realized that things hadn’t changed much. A recruit died out at the Crucible while we were there. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2022/08/04/extreme-heat-led-to-marines-likely-avoidable-death-during-the-crucible/. I saw a lot of crazy things happen there during my time there that I’ll never forget. I said I would never go back into the military.

However, in 2003 I was needing more college money, so I went back into the military and joined National Guard against my better judgement. My military police unit was activated in 2004 for OEF and we were sent overseas. While overseas, I missed my son being born and I was also Stop Lossed. I could write another book about those experiences as well. I finally had to get out of the military in 2012 because I couldn’t deploy anymore. I’m a 100% disabled veteran and former ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher for 6 years.

Who does this? The day of....

Over my years as being a marine I often see on tik tok or ig a marine vet that is flexing cars and trips and saying he wanted more than the marine life so got out now he's a "CEO" and come to find out it's a pyramid scheme. It's a multilevel marking scheme that's targeted at young Marines that are transitioning out of the Marine Corps. It's very disheartening to see that that Marine would take advantage of the marines and then cause these Marines to take advantage of even more Marines. This has been posted about like a year ago, but I'm just seeing it a lot More. How Sean young took advantage of so many young marines is terrible. His "finance group" has been exposed but it hasn't done enough damage. Being a fake money guru needs to stop bro is the Tai Lopez of the marine corps. These get rich schemes have taken advantage of so many. I'll pose a link about his finance group being exposed.

Please spread awareness to your marines. This facade and scamming of our own needs to stop.

https://youtu.be/flugTRSTZoo?si=rOHQfAj_RjvaAIFj

Update: sean young is disguising his new scam as Legacy elite it's still the same MLM as world financial group which is a scam. Here's an explanation from another Reddit post: "Legacy Elite does not show up on google as a company, The other way around, Elite Legacy however, does show as a real financial group. But no search revealed that company whatsoever! When I asked her what that company was, she said they “partnered” with transAmerica to bring in clients and help with their savings. Ouch

Turns out, it’s World Finance Group as an umbrella company that tells its employees they work for “Legacy Elite” to not sound off alarms to potential recruits. She sent me the parent site and I was like damn."

Sean young is scamming so many. Here's his IG page: https://www.instagram.com/thereal_seanyoung?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Don't let your marines fall victim to him

The power would usually go out at least once every few months but it seems like this year it’s very frequent and has been happening every couple days. Whats the cause of this? Seems to me like we need to start using a new source of power lol.

Anyone here from Mike Company 3271 San Diego graduation date Sept 5, 2008? Senior DI Sgt Taylor?

Wondering what happened to some in the platoon. Like to know how everyone is doing. Semper Fi.

I’ll DM you for anonimity if you roger up.

Where yall shop for your ball gowns???? West coast

Happy birthday, devils.

With the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Fallujah, I was curious to hear from more recent boot grads if they teach about GWOT in boot camp. If so, what battles were covered?

Thanks and Semper Fi.

Saw this one guy who was put on BCP. The command didn’t like that so they reduced him in rank. Apparently when he was at the CO getting reduced he somehow ripped off the US Marines name tape off his blouse on the spot and told the CO “take this too” because he didn’t care about being a Marine anymore.

I don’t know if that last part was true but he was gone 3 months later. And during those 3 months he just blatantly ignored everything he was told to do lmao.