Tag: USMC

  • U.S. Marine Corp. Tattoos in Afghanistan

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    Check out the whole set – HERE Quite a few of the pictures show Marines who have tattoos all down their arms.    Judging by the Marine Corps. tattoo policy, June 1, 2010 is the cuttoff in order to be grandfathered in, because the most recent version of the policy strictly prohibits “sleeve” tattoos. I wonder…

  • War Through an iPhone Camera Lens

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    Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder not only documents the war in Afghanistan with traditional digital cameras, he also used an iPhone camera, carried in his flak jacket pocket, coupled with a Polaroid film filter application to photograph the daily lives of Marines, Afghan soldiers and fellow journalists during the military offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan. Check…

  • Marine Corps. Embraces Social Networking

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    As of today, all Marines can now access popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube at work, and they don’t even have to apply for a waiver to do so. Source –  MarineCorpsTimes Sounds like a terrible idea.  The USMC must be incredibly confident in the security of their networks, and the…

  • Terminal Lance – The Comic

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    “Terminal Lance” refers to a Lance Corporal in the USMC that will never make it past the rank of E-3 to Corporal. If you have ever been in the military, or have an interest in it, and understand how it works, you will find the comics hilarious.  Most of the humor is directly related to…

  • Girl Scouts switch to a more agressive sales campaign

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    Step 1: Get army to kick down door Step 2: Girl Scouts enter behind soldiers and demand a large sum of money for a small amount of cookies Step 3: Profit Hat Tip: TheoSpark

  • Use of the AR-15 in Dirty / Dusty Environments

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    If you have been watching the news or reading any of the online forums lately, it would have been hard to miss all the talk about the M4 carbine and its “failure” in Afghanistan. I had a number of thoughts on this topic and had a draft written up for an article I was going…