tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post9154038939851534802..comments2024-01-26T01:49:56.783-06:00Comments on Lagniappe's Lair: Afghan tractor = Marine officer's career?Murphy's Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17164780742334950772noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post-91281147618477256102012-01-27T09:47:22.490-06:002012-01-27T09:47:22.490-06:00"You do know Halsy ran a destroyer aground be..."You do know Halsy ran a destroyer aground before WW2, right? You know Jimmy Doolittle crashed planes?"<br /><br />Lt. Michael Murphy shot a fellow SEAL in a training op. To add to your point.<br /><br />It is bad when war has become so overlawyered that the heros are made into villains just to appease someone. This day and age I expect it to only get worse, until our military resembles the blue helmet guys in the UN.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02544360303504618447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post-12003874178070557252012-01-25T17:49:06.950-06:002012-01-25T17:49:06.950-06:00Andy beat me to it... We CANNOT continue this crap...Andy beat me to it... We CANNOT continue this crap, so bring em all home and standby for attacks here, THEN lets see what ROE the administration comes up with...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post-27346508369611740632012-01-24T22:53:43.251-06:002012-01-24T22:53:43.251-06:00I guess the Marines are just like the Army in this...I guess the Marines are just like the Army in this regard; throwing a junior to the wolves in order to protect the seniority at the slightest hint of trouble is not at all surprising. If there is even a possibility of future scandal, the very first thing to be jettisoned is a willingness to stand up for the "perpetrator."<br /><br />And it does have consequences. When my battalion was (briefly) subordinated to a 4ID unit, a lot of us quietly decided that we would never pull the trigger except to save our own lives, due to the enthusiastic tendency of that unit to pre-emptively sacrifice us on the altar of zero-defects.Aphaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14365660054244340375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post-66013242636850675252012-01-24T22:35:27.032-06:002012-01-24T22:35:27.032-06:00Pray God he didn't also jaywalk or spit on the...Pray God he didn't also jaywalk or spit on the sidewalk.<br /><br />Has the leadership gone nuts? <br /><br />Rhetorical question.an Donalbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06418506325893352676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post-60703193368840986962012-01-24T21:13:50.102-06:002012-01-24T21:13:50.102-06:00Does not shock me.
We are in the mist of a 'z...Does not shock me.<br /><br />We are in the mist of a 'zero-defect' military that the likes of Admiral Halsey , Gen. Patton, Gen. Macarthur, and just about every SERIOUS office in WW2 would never have passed muster.<br /><br />You do know Halsy ran a destroyer aground before WW2, right? You know Jimmy Doolittle crashed planes? <br /><br />So this Lt. disabled a tractor so a terrorist bomb maker could not escape, right? So what's the problem?<br /><br />Our society is getting to soft. The air-heads run the place, not the doers and leaders.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635784352780834494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post-12795884937785257572012-01-24T20:26:43.663-06:002012-01-24T20:26:43.663-06:00What Andy said.What Andy said.Keadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09982258812373127063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20147126.post-29604264446641416762012-01-24T19:42:03.300-06:002012-01-24T19:42:03.300-06:00The PC nonsense has got to stop.The PC nonsense has got to stop.Broken Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562569871940946226noreply@blogger.com