Marine Corps Rules:
1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
2. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.
3. Have a plan.
4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won’t work.
5. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
6. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a ‘4.’
7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal preferred.)
9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
10. Flank your adversary. When possible, protect yours.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. In ten years, nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will remember who lived.
13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention to shoot..
Navy SEAL Rules:
1. Look very cool in sunglasses.
2. Kill every living thing in sight.
3. Adjust Speedo.
4. Check hair in mirror.
US Army Rangers’ Rules:
1. Walk in 50 miles wearing 75 pound rucksack while starving.
2. Locate individuals requiring killing.
3. Request permission via radio from ‘Higher’ to perform killing.
4. Curse bitterly when mission is aborted.
5. Walk out 50 miles wearing a 75 pound rucksack while starving.
US Army Rules:
1. Curse bitterly when receiving operational order.
2. Make sure there is extra ammo and extra coffee.
3. Curse bitterly.
4. Curse bitterly.
5. Do not listen to 2nd LTs; it can get you killed.
6. Curse bitterly.
US Air Force Rules:
1. Have a cocktail.
2. Adjust temperature on air-conditioner.
3. See what’s on HBO.
4. Ask ‘What is a gunfight?’
5. Request more funding from Congress with a ‘killer’ Power Point presentation.
6. Wine and dine ”key’ Congressmen, invite DOD and defense industry executives.
7. Receive funding, set up new command and assemble assets.
8. Declare the assets ‘strategic’ and never deploy them operationally.
9. Hurry to make 10:45 tee-time.
My son commented on a photo of a beautiful sunset off a fantail which said that only 5% of the population ever saw such a sight.
He commented that a smaller percentage saw both through a periscope.
I mentioned that an even smaller percentage saw all three from a P3.
He failed to see the humor.
In fact, he had bad things to say about P3s!
I always took pride in going ashore first to make things safe for the marines coming after me.
Navy rules, and Seabees rock!
The difference between Navy Seals and the Navy is that they make those Ray-Bans and Speedos look good.
Thanks for sharing
The Army says, “Don’t mean &^$%, drive on.
Pretty much how it is 😉
You recuperated yet from the holidays ?
Semper Fi’
DM
Ed- LOL, yeah submariners DON’T like us… 🙂
LL- Yeah, y’all ARE a bit ‘different’… But you do GOOD things! 🙂
Rev- Heh…
Euripides_ True dat! The SEALS are in shape, unlike most of the Navy!
Rick- You’re welcome!
WSF- That too!
DM- Tryin… Tryin to dig out from 30 days of being gone and the associated work emails!
Slight change.
It should read “Walk 50 miles while carrying a 75 pound rucksack while starving AND DEHYDRATED”
Hi ONFO,
‘Was in the “‘Gator NAV” ’66-’70’ Got out PR-2. Your rendition of the USN is Correct for “My Time in” anyway. People ask “what did ‘YOU’ do during the ‘Indo-Chinese Conflict??” My usual responce is,”I supported the ‘Columbian Connection.” They would look puzzled at my answer. They didn’t understand, we drank a lot of coffee…..I mean “A Lot!!!!” We got all our coffee in those 20 pound square tin cans!
BSBD,
III%,
skybill-out