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Patrick:
I hereby resolve to never feel like I'm having a bad day ever again, no matter how shit it gets.
GarandMarine:
That's the thing that strikes me most about Carpenter. Every photo he takes he's smiling. That's indomitable spirit right there. You can't kill that.
For questions about how the Corps treats our own please see the following link:
http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/06/kyle-carpenter-questions-medal-of-honor/
--- Quote ---1. Is there any advice you have for a young infantry lance corporal on how to make rank without actually throwing themselves on a piece of live ordnance?
2. What happened to your face? Do you blame Batman or Commissioner Gordon?
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1. is just sad and true, it's a bitch for a Lance Corporal to get promoted in any MOS, but especially the infantry. 2, as well as the other 21 questions are just how we do. We're family and as such we're going to rip on you when you're okay, and shore you up when you aren't.
Cept this one:
--- Quote ---17. Have you ever caused a Victoria’s Secret store to collapse from the sheer mass of panties dropping all at once?
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That's just a fact of life. Marine Corps Dress Blues. Ain't a thing in the world like'em.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 21 Jun 2014, 04:02 ---I hereby resolve to never feel like I'm having a bad day ever again, no matter how shit it gets.
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I'm simply happy that he is alive. I know that is a bit "motherhood", but...
LeeC:
--- Quote ---American soldiers, members of Maryland's 117th Trench Mortar Battery, operating a trench mortar. This gun and crew kept up a continuous fire throughout the raid of March 4, 1918 in Badonviller, Muerthe et Modselle, France.
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Go Maryland. I had no idea they were still using the different states to signify where the regiment was from like from the ACW. Thought they intermixed everyone (as far as different states go). Perhaps Maryland conscripts? I'll have to look into it more.
--- Quote ---A German dog hospital, treating wounded dispatch dogs coming from the front, ca. 1918.
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--- Quote ---The Salonica (Macedonian) front, Indian troops at a Gas mask drill. Allied forces joined with Serbs to battle armies of the Central Powers and force a stable front throughout most of the war.
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You know, in school the Eastern front wasn't mentioned much. Even if the Western front Allies sent troops over there. The French and British sent many conscripted soldiers from southeast Asia and India to fight in what is today Macedonia, along with other theaters of war.
Some more photos from the Great War that started 100 years ago.
--- Quote ---Wars not make one great.- Yoda
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GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 24 Jun 2014, 20:27 ---
--- Quote ---American soldiers, members of Maryland's 117th Trench Mortar Battery, operating a trench mortar. This gun and crew kept up a continuous fire throughout the raid of March 4, 1918 in Badonviller, Muerthe et Modselle, France.
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Go Maryland. I had no idea they were still using the different states to signify where the regiment was from like from the ACW. Thought they intermixed everyone (as far as different states go). Perhaps Maryland conscripts? I'll have to look into it more.
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Maryland Army National Guard actually. Which explains the state designator. It was only a battery (Company, so about 200 men) and was under the 42nd Infantry Division when they were activated for WW1.
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