Sipsey Street Irregulars: First rule I was taught is that you should never issue an order to a subordinate that you know can't be carried out, especially if it is just CS.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

First rule I was taught is that you should never issue an order to a subordinate that you know can't be carried out, especially if it is just CS.

U.S. Marines In Afghanistan Ordered Not To Fart Audibly.

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Semper Fi, 0321 said...: Priceless video clip!!!

I thought that was SOP in the Corps, now they will have to issue ass mufflers?; August 25, 2011 at 6:51 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: Mullins' Law:
Nothing is impossible to the one who doesn't have to DO it.

It OFFENDS Afghans???? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??? What do Afghans do when they have to expel flatus, for goodness sake? Hold it in till they are alone? Perfect the art of flatulating silently??

Somebody needs to frag the nitwit who originated that order. SOON!; August 25, 2011 at 7:09 PM
Robert Fowler said...: Saturdays as a young Marine. Trip to the mess hall for corned beef hash and eggs. Then back to the barracks and wait for the games to begin. Ahhh, the good old days.; August 26, 2011 at 8:05 AM
DC Wright said...: I recall my first night in Vietnam, laying in my rack in the barracks at Phu Bai, watching a bunch of idiots sitting around in their drawers, farting and trying to light the escaping gas with their Zippos. One or two managed to put on an impressive display. Which made me wonder why the flame didn't get sucked back up inside. I figure the skivvies helped prevent that, but it was a sight I'll never forget... try as I might!; August 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM
HaroldC said...: Evidently farting in the presence of others in many Muslim cultures is a social taboo and an unforgivable faux pas. Doing so causes an immediate loss of status among Muslims. Personally I think it impolite but Muslims can believe any stupid and ridiculous thing they want. It would be good to keep a dog around then to deflect blame. But then they also consider dogs to be ritually unclean.; August 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM

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"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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First rule I was taught is that you should never issue an order to a subordinate that you know can't be carried out, especially if it is just CS.

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