The Military Feel Good Thread - Post anything

Capt MJ said:
Nice, beautiful image, but how vintage is that? Omits the non-gentlemen Devil Dawgs.
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@CaptMJ - I selected that photo because of the officer's cover and sword and this forum's target audience but with full knowledge that it could be seen as exclusive. I felt the USMC Flag was there to represent all Marines and felt I was in line.
 
I just viewed the cake cutting ceremony video at the Marine Corps Museum. It was executed perfectly of course. That is a magnificent place. I haven't been in a while. The volunteers are seasoned-citizen Marines who are spectacular hosts and of course make all visitors feel welcome. On one visit I wore one of my couple hundred T-shirts that might have hinted I was a Corpsman and you'd a thunk a rock star had walked in.

I'm much too polite to tell them I didn't need a personal tour and I only live a couple miles away, but one old Marine who looked like he could still run a PFT apparently didn't hear me, or care, and took me on a tour. He took me to the coming exhibits area in the back and when nobody was looking, he told me to get a quick picture of the first flag raised at Iwo Jima. The flag that had a sign that said "No photography at this exhibit." I took a quick cell phone pic while he stood there grinning.
 
More birthday cheer. My son is a coyote at the combat training center at 29 Palms in case somebody has never noticed the thousands of posts I've put up about him. These are his words. I couldn't explain this is if you paid me.

This Marine is tying one charge to another using det cord. To ensure explosive continuity, like having burning coals catch by being in contact with one another and a girth hitch is used as the standard knot. The cone charge is an inverted cone on a stand. It's because this is a 20 lbs. shaped charge designed to poke a hole that is precisely the diameter of the charge. It's a cone that begins it's explosive train at the tip of the cone, turning itself inside out and sending a focused explosive wave at precisely the center of the charge at the speed of heat.


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Devil Doc said:
One of these years I will eat and drink at Tun Tavern at the museum. Every time I’ve been there it’s been packed.
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@Devil Doc re: Tun Tavern
It's nothing to write home about but a great experience nonetheless. One time the barkeep handed us a card. I think it had a pic of John Wayne, probably from Sands of Iwo Jima, saying 'It's pronounced LeJerne' (not a typo. Yes there IS an unseen R, Virginia). Another time the OCC had just finished their commissioning ceremony. I never saw so many Service Alphas in one place before.
 
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Received a pic from DS today in his dress blues with the following caption...
Worst. Birthday. Ball. Ever.

Covid, unfortunately, strikes again. I'm guessing he was in the uniform of the day but haven't heard back on that yet.
 
Devil Doc said:
It's because this is a 20 lbs. shaped charge designed to poke a hole that is precisely the diameter of the charge. It's a cone that begins it's explosive train at the tip of the cone, turning itself inside out and sending a focused explosive wave at precisely the center of the charge at the speed of heat.
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That is about as clear an explanation of a "shaped charge" as you are ever going to get. Here is a drawing/ photo.

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@kinnem yep, the general's family say that is the proper pronunciation. I was stationed there part of the 70s, 80s, and 90s and went back in the 2000s for exercises and conferences and never pronounced it that way. I heard a bunch of old timers back in the day pronounce it LeJurne.
 
Navy SEAL Sr. Chief Mike Day had never been shot before, but in 2007 he was caught in a firefight with three al-Qaeda insurgents after he was the first of his team to enter a room in a town near Fallujah, Iraq. The enemy fighters opened fire, hitting Day 27 times.
11 of the shots were stopped by his body armor, but 16 penetrated.

He was shot in both legs, both arms, and his left thumb was nearly shot off. He took rounds to the abdomen and had his right scapula shattered. He was shot twice in the buttocks, once in the scrotum, and the multiple body armor hits fractured several ribs and caused contusions on his lungs.

Almost as an insult to these injuries, a grenade exploded just 10 feet away from him, knocking him unconscious. When he woke up roughly a minute later, he managed to kill two of the fighters with his pistol.

“Upon entering that doorway, they all just opened up on me. It felt like somebody was just beating me up with sledgehammers,” Day said.

When the fighting finally stopped, Mike got up and walked himself to a medical helicopter. Apparently, Senior Chiefs are all that and a bag of chips. Just like they always tell me. :)

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THParent said:
Navy SEAL Sr. Chief Mike Day had never been shot before, but in 2007 he was caught in a firefight with three al-Qaeda insurgents after he was the first of his team to enter a room in a town near Fallujah, Iraq. The enemy fighters opened fire, hitting Day 27 times.
11 of the shots were stopped by his body armor, but 16 penetrated.

He was shot in both legs, both arms, and his left thumb was nearly shot off. He took rounds to the abdomen and had his right scapula shattered. He was shot twice in the buttocks, once in the scrotum, and the multiple body armor hits fractured several ribs and caused contusions on his lungs.

Almost as an insult to these injuries, a grenade exploded just 10 feet away from him, knocking him unconscious. When he woke up roughly a minute later, he managed to kill two of the fighters with his pistol.

“Upon entering that doorway, they all just opened up on me. It felt like somebody was just beating me up with sledgehammers,” Day said.

When the fighting finally stopped, Mike got up and walked himself to a medical helicopter. Apparently, Senior Chiefs are all that and a bag of chips. Just like they always tell me. :)

Amazing Survival: Meet the Navy SEAL who was shot 27 times and lived to tell the story 2020 image
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This dude is at a different level but for us mortals, it's the even number that makes us special. Odd number chiefs are well, just odd.
 
My apologies for the numerous posts. I have a guest speaker in class and I'm pretending to be interested in what she is saying while doing other more fun things. This is my son's new toy. The Marines saw fit to gift him with a dune buggy. They call it the razor. Maybe it's a brand name or something but knowing the Marines it is an acronym for something.
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@Devil Doc - it's all in how you interpret the regs (and how far you want to push it)

MCO 1020.34H v2: "Dress and service caps will be worn centered and straight with the tip of the visor in line with the eyebrows. Leather chinstraps and visors will be kept polished. Garrison caps will be worn centered squarely or slightly tilted to the right, with the top unbroken, and with the base of the sweatband about 1 inch above the eyebrows. "
 
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