Fall in. Devil Dogs we have our own group now. Contact me for an invite.

[darthjuan007]

It is intended to be a good-natured professional rivalry. I expect that we all know who we are.

C'mon this is all in good fun. Of coarse there is a rivalry but in the end WE WOULD ALL SHOOT A TERRORIST WITHOUT REMORSE.

By the way....when I was in B.I.A.P getting ready to go home, some Marine commander complained to our commander because we were making fun of his marines that were walking around with there little little booty shorts and there OLD OLD Kevlar helmets. SEXY!!!!! Almost every Marine had the old M-16 rifles(MUSKETS)and coarse we had the new M-4 with the ACOG, surefire tact lights, M203 Granade laucher and PEQ2 lazers. I was even asked by Marines what I had on my M-4.

 

[Darth Cruel]

We called that exercise "Team Sphincter." I was in the planning for that exercise 3 years at 1st RadBn. The 4th year, I deployed for 3 months to South Korea with our own exercise that coincided with TS and ended when TS ended. I lived in a tent, no heat, at the end, some of us had be given contanimated water. About 10 of us went down hard, slogging our way up to the outdoor head to.... it was explosive!

LOL - Team Sphincter - Why did you all call it that?

 

[darthjuan007]

Marines - Always leading the way.

Sorry but it's ......RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!!!

 

[Darth Cruel]

C'mon this is all in good fun. Of coarse there is a rivalry but in the end WE WOULD ALL SHOOT A TERRORIST WITHOUT REMORSE.

By the way....when I was in B.I.A.P getting ready to go home, some Marine commander complained to our commander because we were making fun of his marines that were walking around with there little little booty shorts and there OLD OLD Kevlar helmets. SEXY!!!!! Almost every Marine had the old M-16 rifles(MUSKETS)and coarse we had the new M-4 with the ACOG, surefire tact lights, M203 Granade laucher and PEQ2 lazers. I was even asked by Marines what I had on my M-4.

This does not surprise me. I was shocked that we got the M9 bayonets before the Army.

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

gotta love how we HAD to have bayonets for the jump into BIAP that never happened. a high school buddy of mine who happened to be in CENTCOM S2 told me after the fact of how bad that would have been if TF21 went in as planned.

 

[darthjuan007]

I heard how BAD Saddam had BIAP locked down. IT would have been cool if we would have made that jump into nothern Iraq but then SF would have had the DZ secure and WE would have been made the fun of.

 

[ONEYE]

LOL - Team Sphincter - Why did you all call it that?

It wasn't a real favorite exercise of ours and we always seemed to re-name exercises, just like you give people nicknames based on whatever seemed to be the most embarrassing event or accident they did or were involved with.

For instance (and if you are the boards, Cpl, we loved you), we had this Cpl, and I just got on board as the 1st Sgt at Co. L in GITMO. I overheard Marines talking about Cpl "Notso". I had looked over the roster and didn't recall the name. Then, a name jumped right off the page at me, the name, more accurately, the last name was Bright. Yep, Cpl "Notso" Bright. First day and I'm in my office LMAO. He was a good Marine.

It didn't take long for me to get my nickname.

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

my call sign was "mr burns", cause when i was company ops nco i sat in my office chair with tented fingers. i was also skinny and bic'd my head.

 

[darthjuan007]

my call sign was "mr burns", cause when i was company ops nco i sat in my office chair with tented fingers. i was also skinny and bic'd my head.

PICS PLEASE!!

 

[ONEYE]

In the Corps, Master Sergeants may be called "Top". Usually this is done informally. In a formal, official setting you wouldn't be addressed as Top. Some "Tops" only allow peers and seniors to address them as "Top". Others allow even juniors to do so. Marines have this thing about rank and using them properly. We don't use first names much, just rank and last name, of course non-rates, NCOs, SNCO's amongst peers/themselves can, it usually is the call of the individual (and common sense). Anyway, my first name is Richard, yes, I hate it. I did hear that I was referred to as "Top ^^^^". Never within ear shot. (Wow, didn't know that was censored, starts with a "D" and ends with a "k" and of course is a nickname for Richard.)

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

"Top" was reserved for the pogies. we kept the titles pretty much the way they were officially just shortened like sarn't etc... post combat, all the vets were on first name basis. my 1sg made me call him bill and i was mike to him.

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

PICS PLEASE!!

ok, i'll see if i can get my wife's scanner working over the weekend.

 

[darthjuan007]

"Top" was reserved for the pogies. we kept the titles pretty much the way they were officially just shortened like sarn't etc... post combat, all the vets were on first name basis. my 1sg made me call him bill and i was mike to him.

Person's
Other than
Grunts
That's infantry talk for you Marines.

 

[Darth Cruel]

Person's
Other than
Grunts
That's infantry talk for you Marines.

Marines have been calling office personnel pogues since at least 1983 when I joined.

And we called junk food pogie bait.

 

[darthjuan007]

Marines have been calling office personnel pogues since at least 1983 when I joined.

And we called junk food pogie bait.

POGies are non-infantry types. 11B

 

[The Ween]

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

i started calling them softies after i heard some admin chick at pldc complaining about how offensive the term "soft skills" was. i really started calling them worse at camp champ when all they did was play ps2 and sleep because the civie contractors did their jobs for them, all the while we filled their scud sandbags.

 

[ONEYE]

...all the while we filled their scud sandbags.

THAT is a leadership failure. It should NEVER have happened.

 

[darthjuan007]

filled their scud sandbags.

I used to hate it when the E-5s always made us lower rank do all the work. Fill sandbags, take water from here to there, burn the s^^^ because we had no running water in our F.O.B. I LOVED IT when I got my TAB. Even thou I was an E4 the Sgt's coundn't touch me! I was untouchable!!! Made them do stuff that Clps were doing!!!!

 

[Vader AL]