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The Marine and the History Professor
Aug 26, 2012 09:55:33 #
I still am one. Yoou know the saying "ONCE A MARINE, ALWAYS A MARINE", Semper Fi!
Aug 26, 2012 10:04:55 #
Aug 26, 2012 10:22:43 #
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Aug 26, 2012 11:48:54 #
djmills wrote:
I hope the class in Hawaii was helpful in putting you on the path to a good life.
I think it did. I had been a poor student in high school and I think I had only read one book on my own up to that point. By the time I left the service, 2 years later, I had a seabag filled with books I'd read and pretty much became a bibliophile for the rest of my life.
Aug 26, 2012 12:56:52 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
BW326.
The service does make one a reader. Same here. I graduated with a GED while in the Army. Finished my MA plus two years and then my MBA. All because, some guy with a bronze bar on his collar could tell me what to do and he wasn't that much smarter than me, but he did have a degree!
The service does make one a reader. Same here. I graduated with a GED while in the Army. Finished my MA plus two years and then my MBA. All because, some guy with a bronze bar on his collar could tell me what to do and he wasn't that much smarter than me, but he did have a degree!
Aug 26, 2012 13:24:20 #
ole sarg wrote:
BW326.
The service does make one a reader. Same here. I graduated with a GED while in the Army. Finished my MA plus two years and then my MBA. All because, some guy with a bronze bar on his collar could tell me what to do and he wasn't that much smarter than me, but he did have a degree!
The service does make one a reader. Same here. I graduated with a GED while in the Army. Finished my MA plus two years and then my MBA. All because, some guy with a bronze bar on his collar could tell me what to do and he wasn't that much smarter than me, but he did have a degree!
Yeah, I think the service was a jumping off point for a lot of us. I'm really glad I went there before I went to college.
Aug 26, 2012 13:45:18 #
jjwright71
Loc: Lubbock,Tx
C. David wrote:
yep semper fidellis is a lil rich for the jarheads to get their tounge around ,HAR!! quote=johnr9999 quote=C. David quote=Unclewiggl... (show quote)
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Aug 26, 2012 15:43:42 #
johnr9999
Loc: Carlton, OR
C. David wrote:
quote=johnr9999 quote=C. David quote=Unclewiggl... (show quote)
As I said, the correct spelling is SEMPER fidelis. Semper Fi, while common, is not the correct spelling, but is a neologism invented (or corrupted) by Uncle Sams Misguided Children.
Aug 26, 2012 21:10:01 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
Me too. Without it I would have been a doorman on Miami Beach.
What I like now is the use of the word stress. I wonder if more had served if that word would be relegated to extreme situations.
I was a VP in a large publishing company and we were having a horrible year. The executive committee was sitting around the table and one VP said, the stress is killing me.
I asked, is anyone going to die if we miss our numbers? If we get fired over this can we all get another job? If you can answer no to the first question and yes to the second then you don't know what stress is!
They all just looked at me in bewilderment.
After combat you learn one thing: Don't sweat the small shit!
What I like now is the use of the word stress. I wonder if more had served if that word would be relegated to extreme situations.
I was a VP in a large publishing company and we were having a horrible year. The executive committee was sitting around the table and one VP said, the stress is killing me.
I asked, is anyone going to die if we miss our numbers? If we get fired over this can we all get another job? If you can answer no to the first question and yes to the second then you don't know what stress is!
They all just looked at me in bewilderment.
After combat you learn one thing: Don't sweat the small shit!
BW326 wrote:
Yeah, I think the service was a jumping off point for a lot of us. I'm really glad I went there before I went to college.
ole sarg wrote:
BW326.
The service does make one a reader. Same here. I graduated with a GED while in the Army. Finished my MA plus two years and then my MBA. All because, some guy with a bronze bar on his collar could tell me what to do and he wasn't that much smarter than me, but he did have a degree!
The service does make one a reader. Same here. I graduated with a GED while in the Army. Finished my MA plus two years and then my MBA. All because, some guy with a bronze bar on his collar could tell me what to do and he wasn't that much smarter than me, but he did have a degree!
Yeah, I think the service was a jumping off point for a lot of us. I'm really glad I went there before I went to college.
Aug 27, 2012 04:39:02 #
ole sarg wrote:
After combat you learn one thing: Don't sweat the small shit!
Isn't that the truth!
I often think about Ross Perot's pick for VP in the '92 elections, Vice Admiral Jimmy (James Bond) Stockdale. Stockdale's advanced aged and seeming fragility had become an issue and during the VP debates a questioner had asked, "Being only a heartbeat away from the presidency, if the situation ever arouse to make a decision that might have global consequences, could you handle the stress?
Admiral Stockdale grew pensive for a moment and then replied (something to the effect) that "He could remember once being a POW, chained naked and with a broken leg, lying on a slab of concrete in the rain and the elements for 3 months..." then he looked directly at the questioner, and in a very calm voice and said, "Yeah, I think I could handle the stress." Perot never won the presidency but noone ever again questioned Admiral Stockdale's character or ability to handle stress.
Aug 27, 2012 08:05:57 #
jjwright71
Loc: Lubbock,Tx
BW326 wrote:
yep sarg,been there and done that will tell ya a sea a story some time bout that when we gots time quote=ole sarg After combat you learn one thing: ... (show quote)
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Aug 27, 2012 10:32:28 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
JJ:
Met a professor at Vincence(?) University. It is on the western boarder of Indiana and just about dead center of the nation. On his book case he had beautiful model of a WW2 destroyer. I asked him about it. He said he was the captain of the boat. I asked why he was in Indiana and he said it was he farthest place from either coast!
Is that why you are in Lubbock?
Met a professor at Vincence(?) University. It is on the western boarder of Indiana and just about dead center of the nation. On his book case he had beautiful model of a WW2 destroyer. I asked him about it. He said he was the captain of the boat. I asked why he was in Indiana and he said it was he farthest place from either coast!
Is that why you are in Lubbock?
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