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Thread: Hello from Afghanistan
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12-23-2011, 07:33 PM #11
Welcome to SRP! And as said before many thanks for your service. I am Viet nam age but didn't serve for physical reasons. I too extend the offer if you need anything just holler, it would be my honor to serve you.....
"If You Knew Half of What I Forgot You Would Be An Idiot" - by DoughBoy68
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12-24-2011, 03:03 AM #12
Thanks for serving Marine. Keep us posted on the straight progress. There are quite a few active military and
Veterans here any time you want to talk.Bob
"God is a Havana smoker. I have seen his gray clouds" Gainsburg
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12-24-2011, 03:37 AM #13
Semper Fi Mac!! 11th Engr. Batt. 3rd Marine Division, Dong Ha, Vietnam. 8th & I Marine Barracks, Washington D.C.. Sgt., and numerous green weeny points in between including Okinawa 7 different times!! Leatherneck is a little misunderstood now. More understood as a skin condition impervious to a straight razor as opposed to a demeanor and disposition not skulking from shrapnel and small arms fire. If there is anything you need, I repeat, anything!!, PM me and it's yours. Razor or supplies and/or both!!!!! Esprit de Corps!! Thanks, and God's speed. God Bless!!, Howard
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12-24-2011, 06:08 AM #14
FYI am stealing this!! Great saying, and thanks again for all the support from all of you. I will definitely keep you all up to date on the shaving progress. My razor and kit should have been here by now but we haven’t been able to get mail in about a week now due to "Red Air" conditions. Going to have to wait for the air to clear up before they start bring supplies back in. Semper Fi!!
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12-24-2011, 08:32 AM #15
Thank you for your service, Marine.
I and my wife wish you a Merry Christmas.
Tom
retired Captain
Germany
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12-24-2011, 01:41 PM #16
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Thanked: 983No disrespect intended here, but didn't the term 'leatherneck' come from a time when serving in the phillipines, marines had to wear leather collars to save themselves from the local cut throats (literally locals that would cut their throats)?
Mick
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12-24-2011, 03:17 PM #17
I have been told two different storys of why we are called "Leatherneck" one version is the strip of leather was to keep from getting you neck cut and I'm not sure if it was in the Phillipines or not , The other was it was just a part of the uniform to keep there heads up that is the reason for the collar on our Dress Blues not really sure which one is the truth.
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12-24-2011, 04:24 PM #18
Thanks for your service Marine. Like the post before me, if there is anything you need just ask. Stay low brother.
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12-24-2011, 05:48 PM #19
No offense taken in any manner. I think you're both correct. I wasn't thinking of a literal meaning or etymology. I guess I was more referring to what it means to a Marine to be a Leatherneck, and that explanation I can't seem to find the words for. Its kind of one of those "you had to be there". Slamthunderride, you know what im talking about. Sorry for any confusion. Best Regards, Howard
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12-24-2011, 09:51 PM #20
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Thanked: 983I actually know where you're coming from. I have had Military service myself. I understand as an Australian 'Digger', a term that has both a literal meaning from history, as well as a modern meaning that takes being one to understand it. Again, something that can't be explained to anybody who hasn't been one.
Mick
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