>> How come there's no annual Navy-Marines football game?
>> Navy plays Army every year, no?
> I watch that game every year.  When they talk about the players and what
> their future military career is planned to be, some of the Navy players are
> headed for the Marines instead of the Navy.
> To my knowledge, the Marine Corp does not have its own officer's school.
> Future Marine officers attend Navy.
> The other four traditional branches... Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Coast
> Guard... all have their own academies.

I did not know this.

I knew that the extreme survival train a friend of mine helps teach in Cali is  atrended by both Navy SEALs & USMarines.

This school trains them to withstand torture(a very extreme class), to escape  POW status, wherever they are & to make it alive to a US base or embassy.

I guess what matters is all branches are available & well-trained for the  eventualities they're needed for.

I, of course, have no skin in the game. I respect those troops who are level  heradeed & who respect codes of honour.

I don't respect all troops -- I don't respect those who drunkenly start fights  with unarmed allies quietly drinking in a port bar.

Even when a war is unjustified, & only started because corpotrations demanded  it (e./g. Viet Nam) I respect the men (& women) who believed they were putting  themselves in the way of danger to protect their country(in whatever way they  were told they were, even if not literally valid)

This is why I have nothing but the leastmost(negaive, even) respect for Jane  Fonda, who had nothing but the uytmost disrespect for these returning soldiers.

Did you know, therte was no spitting on soldiers returjning home, at airports,  as all the medusa reported?

The NYTimes published a piece debunking this claim/belief & referenced a poll  that showed antiwar protesters had more respect for soldiers than for  politicians or their protester peers.

Fonda was still a traitor to her country, & I can't respect that.

Even those who betrayed America in the previous wars between Canada & the US -- I've got no respect for those who break faith with their country &/or corps.

Just like how cops don't respect the informants they rely on so much.

I was a punkass JD teenager, but the cops respected me, because I respected  them for just doing their job.  My failing in my task (not to get caught) is in no wy t heir fault or problem. I would be simply, "Yes, sir; no sir, as you  say, sir."

In the station they'd try to get inifo from me on the goings on around town. I  readily admitted to knowing who was leading this wave or that wabe of crime  tyheuy were tackling, but I balked at sharing that info; I was polite, "Haha,  sir, like I'm going to trade my life in for an extra cigarette; thanks for  playing, though."

They'd laugh, give me the pack, & let me smoke until I was ready to go lie down on my bunk again.

Out opf my peer group, I might be the only one who's still alive. Most lost it  in shootouts with cops, or high speed chases, or got life in prison for some  thing, & perhaps ran afoul of certain people inside.

One buddy was a known murder, yetthe police obeyed orders & declared it a  suicide (even though his skeleton was found remotely, & no weapon was at the  scene.)

[Ok, it was, in one sense a suicide: he chose to take an Angel's Harley for a  joy ride in a town where the Angels ownerd the police detachment]

I had expected he was at the bottom of the river, actually. Othwers had their  thoughts, but all knew he was dead, put down for disrespecting power.

But I'm 100% reformed nowe & far (physically & philosophically) from those  times in my life.

I'm now a model citizen, working with all levels of government to improve  society for all.

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