How about posting in fucking English instead of pretentious military gobbledegook?
I’ve never met a Marine that had anything but highest praise for the corpsmen and I know that corpsmen have traditionally earned more than their share of medals and honors (I believe they are the most decorated branch of the military) but I don’t see where they are more awe-worthy than the common army grunt or marine jarhead rushing into battle. Is it because these are people trying to preserve life in the midst of death’s courtyard or something else?
That isn’t enough? I won’t pretend you should abandon your notions of courage and adopt mine. But I think it takes a special brand of courage to face the enemy unarmed, carrying only mercy, morphine and bandages. YMMV.
But I haven’t shown you my campaign medal depicting a well-hung man clutching a shovel yet: it’s a Wanged Digger.
What about my badge of Tim Westwood*
*Guaranteed to make fuck all sense to anyone who’s not listened to Radio 1’s hiphop slot.
Yeah, I feel pretty much like you where medics are concerned, but about that “unarmed” thing…the combat medics I served with carried .45’s and hand grenades, extra ammo for the grunts and even spare batteries for the radio. In fact the medic in my unit was as hard charging, if not more than the rest of us he just had to carry more gear. Not saying they are not brave just that the unarmed sister of mercy image is not all that accurate. Medics like every soldier have a job to do.
Danged wigga!
Of course, there’s also my badge of a rugby player having the shit-encrusted hair shorn off his arse {and I guarantee that no-one except maybe Kiwis or Aussies will get that one}.
Dagged winger?
Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, recently sent a hairpiece maker to heck.
The poor soul is now a Danged Wigger.
Arrr. That’s what I get for leaving the browser on this page for the last hour …
Keep practicing, it is worth being legible if you have something worth saying.
I teach in a top English school.
I’d like to say that, whichever school Lust4Life went to, they would be ashamed of his writing. :rolleyes:
Civillian army brat and navy spouse of a career submariner here. I knew exactly what he was talking about without needing a translater.
I also think since it was the pit, he was blowing off steam in an approved manner.
I know others have hit a post in the pit with nothing but about a dozen good fucks, and maybe a sentance of coherent english.
Let the guy have his rant, will you? It can be hard enough losing a buddy and not being able to rant locally, when the pit exists as a place to have a good cathartic rant.
<looks around and notices I havent really been foulmouthed> FUCK SHIT PISS COCKSUCKER MOTHERFUCKER and TITS. [so I liked Carlin when I was younger]
Which one?
An approved school perchance?
On the Internet, I prefer to stay relatively anonymous.
(If you’re really interested, you can work it out from my posts.)
I’m still waiting on the OP’s responses to my questions upthread.
I missed where Lost4Life said he went to a grammar school? And you do know their are very few such schools in Britain any more, nor have there been for many years.
There were lots when I finished primary school, and that was just over ten years ago.
Strange, I finished at a grammar school in Slough almost 20 years ago and there were only about a hundred grammar schools in the entire country at the time. Have they been re-introduced? Do people still need to pass an exam at the age of 11 or 12 to get into one?