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re: Why does the Marines Core exist?
Posted on 6/19/18 at 9:55 am to navynuke
Posted on 6/19/18 at 9:55 am to navynuke
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Sweet target.
When we go to battle formations that ship right there get's put right in the front so if we're fired on it is the first targeted to try and keep fire away from destroyers and aircraft carriers and the like.
It has a couple big 50 cals on deck and some interceptor missiles.
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Posted on 6/19/18 at 9:55 am to KSGamecock
Posted on 6/19/18 at 10:04 am to SemperFiDawg
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Was on the Whidbey Island for her first Med Tour and the LST Hermitage for its last. World of difference in the two.
Wouldn't mind hearing you expand on that. The Ponce was a steam ship and got decommissioned a few years after I left the service. She was a big hunk of metal and they don't make them like that anymore.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 10:06 am to KSGamecock
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Are you sure? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
I want so badly to believe you're joking.
corps
noun, plural corps
1.Military. a.a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone:
the U.S. Marine Corps; corps of cadets.
b.a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 11:53 am to KSGamecock
I am definitely going to say "Core" in the future. I didn't know they were like Nerds you can troll by saying Star Trek instead of Star Wars.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 12:02 pm to hogNsinceReagan
Have to keep that floating parking lot safe so the jet jockeys have a place to land.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 12:08 pm to hogNsinceReagan
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Wouldn't mind hearing you expand on that. The Ponce was a steam ship and got decommissioned a few years after I left the service. She was a big hunk of metal and they don't make them like that anymore.
I'm jealous of you guys in that regard. I lived for years on a navy base... and the biggest ship I got to go onboard was a sailboat. Because that was pretty much the biggest ship there since the base was Great Lakes.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 12:27 pm to KSGamecock
Posted on 6/19/18 at 2:04 pm to momentoftruth87
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07
Gannon?
Posted on 6/19/18 at 2:20 pm to Korin
Don't know what you mean by that
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:47 pm to momentoftruth87
You were in AQ in 07 and don't know about Camp Gannon?
Posted on 6/19/18 at 5:30 pm to Korin
I was down in the bowl with the skids. I was there for 3 months. April-July. MEU came in for a few months after then we sent a det back to AQ for the remainder of deployment.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:13 pm to hogNsinceReagan
I think the guys we relieved on my first deployment were one the Ponce. We turned over in Rota, Spain.
The Hermitage LSD-34 was an old ship. Berthing area was on port side and always smelled of raw diesel. It was Tanks, Recon, Force Recon, and the Seals. That’s all that was on it other than the crew. Slept 4-5 high in steel framed racks with canvas lashed to it. It wasn’t nice by any means, but in a way I liked it better than the Whidbey Island. Because it was such a small crew and detachment everybody knew everybody and were a lot tighter. The Whidbey Island had real mattresses, air condition on each bunk, no smell but never knew another soul outside of the guys in my platoon.
The Hermitage LSD-34 was an old ship. Berthing area was on port side and always smelled of raw diesel. It was Tanks, Recon, Force Recon, and the Seals. That’s all that was on it other than the crew. Slept 4-5 high in steel framed racks with canvas lashed to it. It wasn’t nice by any means, but in a way I liked it better than the Whidbey Island. Because it was such a small crew and detachment everybody knew everybody and were a lot tighter. The Whidbey Island had real mattresses, air condition on each bunk, no smell but never knew another soul outside of the guys in my platoon.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:26 pm to SemperFiDawg
We ported in Rota.
As for the bunks mine were old school. I didn't even know they made them with individual air conditioning but some of the newer ones also have t.v.'s in each bunk.
On submarines those dudes have to share beds. When one person goes to work the other one goes to sleep. frick a submarine.
As for the bunks mine were old school. I didn't even know they made them with individual air conditioning but some of the newer ones also have t.v.'s in each bunk.
On submarines those dudes have to share beds. When one person goes to work the other one goes to sleep. frick a submarine.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:31 pm to hogNsinceReagan
We stopped in Rota on the way back. Less than 24 hour stop and I don't remember any of it.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:35 pm to momentoftruth87
LOL, I got hammered drunk and then went to a mcdonalds and ended up fighting one of our cooks because I was talking shite about the ship food.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:38 pm to hogNsinceReagan
I love these
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:55 pm to hogNsinceReagan
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On submarines those dudes have to share beds. When one person goes to work the other one goes to sleep. frick a submarine.
Who would want to do hot bunking on a continual basis? I mean, knowing, every day, that you are sleeping in some other guy's sweat.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:58 pm to Arksulli
I guarantee you that happens too. Hot racking is bad enough when it's the guy above you.
We worked in the boiler room where it was 120 degrees all day everyday in certain spots and mother frickers would hop right into bed afterwards.
We worked in the boiler room where it was 120 degrees all day everyday in certain spots and mother frickers would hop right into bed afterwards.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 6:59 pm to KSGamecock
Hooah!
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