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Marines: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential?
well for this guy, oops, i think your insanity is showing.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
I stopped reading after "1st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne), a non-profit think-tank..." Glad I didn't waste my time.
Either Sparkie, or one of his proteges, created videos and posted on youtube, explaining why the Sherman and Abrams suck. They were impressive videos, with lots of bold yellow and red letters....
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Yeah, Gunny. I tried to become a Marine officer they said no because my parents knew each other.
And he is Airborne.
Oh, and falling out of an airplane 5 times does not make one Airborne. It qualifies one to wear the basic parachutist badge and be eligible for assignment to an airborne unit.
You are Airborne only if you are or have been assigned to an Airborne unit.....
"You gents haven't jumped from a perfectly good airplane at 300 miles per hour before?"
Their blank stares said they hadn't.
"Remember to crouch into a ball upon exit. Russian style. The Russkies do it, so can we. After you get a good canopy steer towards me and lower your swim fins. Undo your chest strap and I'll steer us into the wind; as soon as you feel water undo your split saddle leg straps and slide out of your harness and swim to me. Got it?"
I stopped reading after "1st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne), a non-profit think-tank..."
Apparently they do their thinking and studying whilst parachuting or something.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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