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Guitarget	A Marine Grunt In Afghanistan	Lead	[-]
Posts: 201 (01/01/09 04:54 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o7iWgqf-Dg I'd be interested in your take on this video. Personally, as an ex-Marine, I am appalled that anything like this is posted on the web. I'm responsible for my small share of insensitive behavior in my time, but the idea of posting any of it where the Commandant of the Marine Corps could see it and use it at my court martial under UCMJ Article 134? Teaching Afghan kids to curse in English? Saying their country smells like ass? Is this really how we're winning hearts and minds? Don
heavycruiser		#1	[-]
Posts: 6480 (01/01/09 06:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My take: I think they are blowing off frustration. Probably they shouldn't have put it on camera. More fodder for anti-military press.
Guitarget	Probably they shouldn't have put it on camera.	#2	[-]
Posts: 202 (01/01/09 09:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't even mind them filming it, and I absolutely understand frustration - but to upload it to the World Wide Web so the muslim press can run with it? I've heard worse from Vietnam Vets, but those were stories told in person, not posted for the whole world to see. How can any English-speaking Afghan not be offended by this video? Besides, the Marines are The Good Guys, not the guys who teach Afghan kids how to curse and ridicule their own country. Of course, there are some seriously inappropriate parts of my submarine book that were edited out of any uploads. Only a few friends have the "R" rated version in it's entirety. I cannot imagine the hateful backlash if I ever released my submarine book in the original, but I stand by the fact that there is nothing made up in it. In some cases, I wrote down what happened only minutes after it happened, whether it be funny or weird or sad or even illegal - or, totally inappropriate.
spectroid		#3	[-]
Posts: 2307 (01/01/09 11:17 PM) Chief Master At Arms Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I agree that those guys are up to their armpits with frustrations and stress, and have a need to vent, but that should not have been posted on the Internet Filmed? OK, but keep it for when they get together after it's all over and they are home safe. I know that we all, or at least most of us have been the "Ugly American" at one time or another, but didn't call the local newspapers sor TV stations (No internet back then) to have it broadcast all over the world....JMHO Name withheld by request .
Ray Andersen		#4	[-]
Posts: 4789 (01/03/09 12:49 PM) Chief Master At Arms Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Don...that guy on camera has a whole bad attitude problem.He thinks he is getting screwed by being there (he joined..I assume) and see's the people as the reason.Those little kids remind me of the little beggers in Naples...they were trying to get money to 'eat'... something most Americans never had to worry about.It saddens me to see a guy act like these marines were doing.. as it gives us all a blackeye to the world.It definetly should not be on the internet..but I think it made those dumbo's think they were some kind of 'superior' people,but it did the oppoite if you ask me.As some guys say they were 'venting' ...do it in a bar not on the internet! Ray
Guitarget	(he joined..I assume)	#5	[-]
Posts: 203 (01/03/09 01:22 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ray, Actually, he was drafted - hah! Just kidding! I keep waiting for NBC News to do a story on it. Marines everywhere will cringe. Hugs, Don
heavycruiser		#6	[-]
Posts: 6487 (01/03/09 05:29 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm really surprised some creepy news type didn't do a big story on this. Actually I blame the politicians who have dismanteled the military over the years so these guys have to spend max time in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a result of being stressed and stretched too thin. Now the guys in Iraq, once it winds down are going to be re-deployed to that arm pit of the world.
andy a mancini	a marine grunt in alghhanistan	#7	[-]
Posts: 72 (01/05/09 09:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	hi marine, buono anno bguono natale aleutti andy, my grandson ski been in the marines 10 years now e-7 2 tours in irag family was at yuma a.z. now in jacksonvilla n.c. recurit duty. the bought a house there for wife and my 3 great grandson. peace angelo andy mancini.
Guitarget	now in jacksonville n.c.	#8	[-]
Posts: 204 (01/05/09 08:21 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	45 minutes away up route 17..........

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