Brickbat: The Few, the Proud

The Marine Corps has ordered the Marine Corps Times, an independent newspaper, removed from checkout lines at base exchange stores. The paper reports that officials are refusing to say who ordered the move or whether the Marine Corps commandant's office was involved. The paper has published numerous stories over the past year on allegations that the commandant, Gen. Jim Amos, used undue command influence to secure the punishment of Marines accused of urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

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[invisible furry hand]

ALT TEXT

"And then i shoved my face in between them"

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"UBBUBBUBBUBBUBBUBBUBBUBBUBBUBB!"

[Smilin' Joe Fission]

REAL MATURE BRADLEY

[UnCivilServant]

Wait - jarheads can read?

[Pavlov's Cat]

Reservists.

[Drake]

Your life, my hobby.

[Cdr Lytton]

The one Marine I ever saw with his head buried in a book was a reserve MI/signals intercept guy... so anecdotally correct!

[Radioactive]

and shoot, don't forget the shoot part...you target you.

[UnCivilServant]

If they can't see me from the belltower, they're not going to hit me.

[Radioactive]

new thermal imaging scopes...they can see your underwear through the wall...

[Swiss Servator, Befehl!]

I saw some evidence that a few in 2/8 could - but 3/6 or 3/3 MAR.

[waffles]

During a 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade in Jacksonville, Florida, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney admired a baby decked in dress attire with gold jewelry and said, "Oh, you've got some bling-bling here."

[The Last American Hero]

I suspect Col Jessup ordered it.

[Cdr Lytton]

Holy crap! That link goes straight to the source, not Reason 24/7!

And

Exchange managers were told to move the newspapers to make room for the commandant's reading list and that of the "First Lady of the Marine Corps," Amos' wife Bonnie.

Another command list that everyone reads and no one does.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"How do you like my wife's reading list?"

"Sir! Pride and Prejudice is a tender exploration of the Victorian social milieu and the role of women in society, sir!"

[ClosetClausewitz]

Frankly, it almost seems like every week Gen Amos is spiralling further down. Now he is picking fights with people who buy ink by the barrel... not a wise policy.

Amusing take on this at teh Duffleblog:

http://www.duffelblog.com/2014.....rning-8th/

http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/02/marine-times-px/

[Aresen]

...Marines accused of urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

The Few. The Proud. The Incontinent.

[R C Dean]

Yeah, next time just throw some bacon grease on 'em.

[ClosetClausewitz]

ANd now the Corps backs down:

http://www.marinecorpstimes.co.....ive-review