Brighid Skamarakas

Chesty Puller or Patton?

The U.S. Marine Corps is the United States’ military band of brothers dedicated to warfighting. The proud Brotherhood of Marines is guided by principles, values, virtues, love of country, and its Warrior Culture. This brotherhood of American Patriots has no song. Instead, Marine Warriors have a hymn. When The Marines’ Hymn is played, United States [...]

I was on the www.strategypage.com humor page the other day, and someone had made additions to this publication “Skippy’s List” So, naturally, I went and found it online and I have to link to it here, because it’s insanely funny.

Required knowledge for all Marines - Every Marine a Rifleman
It was written following the attack on Peal Harbor by MajGen William H. Rupertus

I’ve had a headache since Sunday, so I went to the doctor’s yesterday and apparently I’m not dying, it’s just a really bad sinus infection. He gave me a nice strong antibiotic that’s kicking in (I know because I took it without eating this morning and felt like my digestive tract was being disintegrated from [...]

Ummm…….despite what my father seems to think, I am not insanely short.
The minimum for females to join the military is 55 inches. I am 63. A whole eight inches taller than the minimum. Eight. Count them.