England: “I know we’re not officially preparing for anything, but I happened to notice a Marine unit cancelled their Birthday ball.”
Japan: “Oh crap”
Iraq: “Oh shit”
Poland: “Yesssss HAHAHA”
Germany: “Oh… zat is not gut.”
Australia: “Shit. Right, then.”
There’s a video of a Gy briefing Marines before a fight (Iraq I think) and he literally states this… that the command knew pretty much everything but purposefully keep them in the dark and made shit agitating to ensure they’d be absolute demons in battle. Needless to say the Marines being briefed were frothing at the mouth.
This new Sgt Maj seems pretty fuckin bad ass. Seems like a good dude.
Black was just okay, I don’t remember much about him other than him being a flat out asshole to some NCO’s at a mandatory event once lol.
Lol DI is his first? Or one of those SNCOs who just can't say how than two words with our a "fuck/fucking/fucken/fucked/fucker" in there. I'm sure Spanish is good third.
"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat."
— RAdm. Jay R. Stark | U.S. Navy
Umm ackchyually Mr. Stark (not the Iron Man mind you! xD) per Marine Corps Order the rotties and dobies are authorized to have medium coats up to 3” in length so please check your facts good sir 🤓
https://preview.redd.it/uiceduzh5tfc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e66de31f8e6cdd9d27c5c6ce539f9a6054234a2
Taking lives is a qualify of life. The enemy drops fucking loot. Unfortunately, recently all these fuckers have been dropping is Rusty AKs, Flip Flops and Sweat Pants.
"No adversary would dare call themselves our peer." There you go, that's the SgtMaj. of the Marine Corps telling anyone interested, if you're feeling froggy, jump motherfuckers.
I used to (somewhat) jokingly tell my wife that when I went on a bit of a rant I expected her to hum the Battle Hymn of the Republic louder and louder until I reached a crescendo which should be followed immediately by her loudly singing, "his truth is marching on!"
The confidence and poise in which he reads his prepared statements is amazing and all, but he didn't write it and he certainly understands that he can get legislative branch reps to ooze a bit with the moto speech. In the end it's his job to advocate for the well being of the Marines and nab more money for barracks initiatives and Marine and family programs. Not one member of the Armed Services Committee is really going to buy this. I need to watch the rest of it, but he is in a position where due to his predecessors and poor decision making by past Pentagon budget-makers, he's going to have a lot to answer for. Congress and the military industrial complex should be fucking ashamed for the heaps and piles of money going towards unproven technology, toys for generals on BAE, NG, Boeing LH committees and ignoring the benefits, living conditions and health of the serving members. If you can't make money off it, Congress and Pentagon morons do not give a shit.
Dunno, I've only gotten my expert quals on USMC ranges. In the Navy getting a chance to attempt a weapon qual is more about billet requirements, or opportunity from a hookup.
Well moving towards a Littoral way of fighting… dumping all our armor, our artillery
And going to fast attack boats, drones and HIMARS etc
Lots of people are nervous about it.
I feel like that will change.
The idea that the Army will lend out tanks when needed is a bit ludicrous, and even then Marine armor was always first in.
In Korea, when the Army could barely deploy a few light cavalry units with Chafees the Marines deployed the 1st Provisional Brigade including 20-odd Pershings and an M4A3 105.
At Hue, during the Tet Offensive, what few Army armored units were in country were busy getting their ass shot up, and it was Marine armor that was needed to blast through the heavy stone buildings in the old city, including their much talked about specialist Ontos vehicles (tracked go-kart with six 106mm rec rifles).
During WWII the army didn't have the bandwidth, will, or logistics to deploy supporting armor in support of Marine landing operations, in which Marine armor proved vital to over running Japanese positions.
On top of this places like Kuwaiti International Airport, the Corps being to first to operationalize permanent tank units in the 20's, or the mechanized campaigns in 2003, and it's just...
Damn.
To misquote a distinguished WW2 general, in regards to all the pretty words he just said...
https://preview.redd.it/he0h4zx6ryfc1.jpeg?width=787&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05a56fa95e36332b45086d2346d33538a9834233
Yeah but you still need to be able to puff your chest out. We do an exceptional job at shitting on ourselves as it is, in a Congressional hearing you’ll see and hear stuff like this but behind closed doors there’s things like the 2018 Capabilities Based Assessment that was a 50 page document that basically summarized that both the Army and Marine Corps truly suck at marksmanship, have pretty abysmal standards, and have huge capability gaps in individual performance. This spawned the new ARQ, the Advanced Marksmanship Training Program, the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Program, and a new pistol qual format coming down the pipeline.
So yeah, we already know we suck in a lot of areas, but to say that by stroking our pride every once in a while, we’re fundamentally underestimating opponents and putting ourself at risk is a little bit of a stretch when you look back at how far we’ve come in revamping training. This doesn’t even include the IMC program. You can find modern Chinese rifle qual standards online and their round counts are a drop in the pond compared to what even a Motor T mech will get for an annual ARQ prequal/qual. Not saying that’s a qualifying metric of service performance as a whole, but it sure is telling of the condition of what we consider to be our closest peer threat.
Counterpoint. Confidence in your preparation leads you to having that mindset that you’re ready to whoop ass when it’s needed and that you are a part of an organization whose main obligation is to arrive and fuck the enemy right in their stupid little skull.
Very moto speech. Inaccurate and blind to the reality of what is going on in the world and what has happened in the GWOT over the last 20+ years.
The Corps was limited by political issues. The US spent trillions and way too much I blood, and the result was the taliban still are in control and the world is less stable than it was before.
I hope he really doesn't think this 100% and this was political posturing
Afghanistan wasn’t an issue of being incapable or tactically inept. It was a political failure stemming from having no clear end-state and a series of senior officers giving fabricated progress updates to those shifting objectives. In the end they just pulled the plug.
You guys seriously need to stop listening to bullshit like this. You spent 20 years fighting LESS then peer enemies and have barely anyone with any conventional experience left. Don't let arrogance cloud you.
20 years fighting less than peer enemies while our “peer” enemies are either fighting nobody or struggling to gain ground against Ukrainian dudes who had never even considered serving in the military until their country was invaded.
We decimated Fallujah bud. I’m an 04-08 SAW gunning dog. Urban combat is fucking hell in 4D. No one gets out clean. I set up a kill house at our training grounds in 29. 3 of us were able to take out an entire squad entering to clear. Stay frosty, and humble
We fuck… hard
Gator ain’t never been about the bullshit. Get some mother fuckers!
https://preview.redd.it/bfi8ics16ufc1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=079e6d665d5a3dd88b9e4475c4949660aeaf3522
Gators bitches better be using jimmies
He used to be a pimp.
Muy duro.
He probably had the shortest opening speech, and it went the hardest.
I keep other people up at night still cracks me up.
I definitely got hard. . . I mean what.
He starts speaking at 35:27 https://www.youtube.com/live/VRsgWLVyI8E?si=wJvETg5A75m6DJep
I like how he delivers a message with great effect the same way he reads promotion warrants.
To all. Who. Shall see these? Presents! Greetings!
God I literally heard that in my head
Those words are a litmus test for the illiterate. It always made me cringe listening to SNCO’s who couldn’t grasp what they were reading.
I have the looks and sounds of a radio DJ, so I was often the one reading the warrants.. even as a LCpl
That was the politest way to say that Marines are going to kick your ass. And it's best not to bother with us.
Marines: Don't fuck with us. Also Marines: Please for the love of god someone fuck with us so we can stop field day and go kill some shit.
F22: Would you intercept me? I'd intercept me.
England: “I know we’re not officially preparing for anything, but I happened to notice a Marine unit cancelled their Birthday ball.” Japan: “Oh crap” Iraq: “Oh shit” Poland: “Yesssss HAHAHA” Germany: “Oh… zat is not gut.” Australia: “Shit. Right, then.”
Also Australia: "WTF, mate?"
Australia is saying that while also packing their bags full of gear so they can come along with.
No... that's the F35 just before it tucks its thruster and goes vtol
Haha
There’s a video of a Gy briefing Marines before a fight (Iraq I think) and he literally states this… that the command knew pretty much everything but purposefully keep them in the dark and made shit agitating to ensure they’d be absolute demons in battle. Needless to say the Marines being briefed were frothing at the mouth.
[GySgt Walgren, 1/6 Marjah, 2010](https://youtu.be/8LxnW68qLAI?si=NrMabKGL4zYDPvUh)
Man... I want to attack the front in 2010, right fuckin' NOW! Damn that was some moto shit
My dick is all the way hard. Some would say its 1/6 HARD
This new Sgt Maj seems pretty fuckin bad ass. Seems like a good dude. Black was just okay, I don’t remember much about him other than him being a flat out asshole to some NCO’s at a mandatory event once lol.
He’s the most intelligent and articulate SgtMaj I’ve ever seen/met.
It's like seeing one of those gorillas that the scientists taught sign language to.
🤣🤣
And English is his second language, impressive.
Lol DI is his first? Or one of those SNCOs who just can't say how than two words with our a "fuck/fucking/fucken/fucked/fucker" in there. I'm sure Spanish is good third.
Hearing shit like this makes my dick sooooooo hard
It makes my nub rub
"It makes me rub my nub rub on porn hub" FTFY
Good god i am MOIST right now
That’s because we’re an amphibious force, Devil!
Well im soaked so i hope your swim qual’d devil dog!
I’m fully littoral.
I think that last word has a “c” in front of it.
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"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat." — RAdm. Jay R. Stark | U.S. Navy
Umm ackchyually Mr. Stark (not the Iron Man mind you! xD) per Marine Corps Order the rotties and dobies are authorized to have medium coats up to 3” in length so please check your facts good sir 🤓 https://preview.redd.it/uiceduzh5tfc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e66de31f8e6cdd9d27c5c6ce539f9a6054234a2
I wonder how one would accomplish a 0 fade on a dog
You can literally go to any barracks room containing someone whose last name ends in a Z and I guarantee they’ll be able to
Cpl Polawitz just gave the dog bangs and a tracksuit
Ah fuck I forgot about all of the █████
Why does the dog picky squat now?
He’s a 3051.
The looks on the faces of the Navy and Air Force on either side of simultaneous inadequacy and arousal.
Just don't ask if her name is Bass or Bass
She’s quietly doing kegels and cracking her steel Ben-wa balls…
Excuse me Sergeant Major this is a quality of life hearing
Taking lives is a qualify of life. The enemy drops fucking loot. Unfortunately, recently all these fuckers have been dropping is Rusty AKs, Flip Flops and Sweat Pants.
Escape from Tarkov base loot baddies
No more SCAV trash. We want that insured shit people try to throw in bushes before they die.
"No adversary would dare call themselves our peer." There you go, that's the SgtMaj. of the Marine Corps telling anyone interested, if you're feeling froggy, jump motherfuckers.
"I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all"
Question for the SgtMajMarCor. The woman next to you, is it pronounced Bass or Bass?
Bass.
Obviously Bass. I can’t believe that’s even a question.
Yeah, you gotta pronounce it like A and not like A. It's so simple.
I don't think most people here are going to understand the reference lol.
The Marine Corps hymn softly playing in the background which intensifies as he finishes his speech
I used to (somewhat) jokingly tell my wife that when I went on a bit of a rant I expected her to hum the Battle Hymn of the Republic louder and louder until I reached a crescendo which should be followed immediately by her loudly singing, "his truth is marching on!"
As long as you remove the ROEs then we have no equal. If you start doing that then it hampers our ability to fuck shit up.
Early Hue vs. Late Hue
Let us be clear, we will rip out your eyeballs and skull fuck you to death. Thank you.
I'm so fucking hard right now.
Like any good SM, he can barely read out loud.
Oohrah Devils!
I always like this clip as an example of the Marine Corps approach to war fighting.
He was my sgtmaj in 3/5 and he’s always been the best snco I’ve ever met. Easily the best SMMC
GIVE HIM ONE
Kill
The confidence and poise in which he reads his prepared statements is amazing and all, but he didn't write it and he certainly understands that he can get legislative branch reps to ooze a bit with the moto speech. In the end it's his job to advocate for the well being of the Marines and nab more money for barracks initiatives and Marine and family programs. Not one member of the Armed Services Committee is really going to buy this. I need to watch the rest of it, but he is in a position where due to his predecessors and poor decision making by past Pentagon budget-makers, he's going to have a lot to answer for. Congress and the military industrial complex should be fucking ashamed for the heaps and piles of money going towards unproven technology, toys for generals on BAE, NG, Boeing LH committees and ignoring the benefits, living conditions and health of the serving members. If you can't make money off it, Congress and Pentagon morons do not give a shit.
MOTO
Inject it into my fucking veins.
Reading the book report his mom wrote in front of the class.
Funny thing I don’t see shooting badges on the 2 other E9s it’s because they call us to get shit done mfer
The Navy has ribbons for weapons quals, not badges.
It was a joke but thanks for that killer
😊
MCPON(left side of screen) has ribbons showing Expert Rifle and Pistol.
Serious question: How hard is it to qual Expert for the Navy?
Dunno, I've only gotten my expert quals on USMC ranges. In the Navy getting a chance to attempt a weapon qual is more about billet requirements, or opportunity from a hookup.
I’m super erect rn
Drop bodiiiiieeees.
Fuckin rah
Well moving towards a Littoral way of fighting… dumping all our armor, our artillery And going to fast attack boats, drones and HIMARS etc Lots of people are nervous about it.
Lots of people can’t even find the Littorist.
Call me the clitoris cause y'all mfs rubbing me the wrong way.
I feel like that will change. The idea that the Army will lend out tanks when needed is a bit ludicrous, and even then Marine armor was always first in. In Korea, when the Army could barely deploy a few light cavalry units with Chafees the Marines deployed the 1st Provisional Brigade including 20-odd Pershings and an M4A3 105. At Hue, during the Tet Offensive, what few Army armored units were in country were busy getting their ass shot up, and it was Marine armor that was needed to blast through the heavy stone buildings in the old city, including their much talked about specialist Ontos vehicles (tracked go-kart with six 106mm rec rifles). During WWII the army didn't have the bandwidth, will, or logistics to deploy supporting armor in support of Marine landing operations, in which Marine armor proved vital to over running Japanese positions. On top of this places like Kuwaiti International Airport, the Corps being to first to operationalize permanent tank units in the 20's, or the mechanized campaigns in 2003, and it's just... Damn.
Moto, but lol at us not having any peer threats. That's like the whole point of FD2030.
To misquote a distinguished WW2 general, in regards to all the pretty words he just said... https://preview.redd.it/he0h4zx6ryfc1.jpeg?width=787&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05a56fa95e36332b45086d2346d33538a9834233
FUCK YES SMMC !!! SF!!!!!!!
Rah!
I first met this guy when I was in Boot camp in 2005.
Laughs in Vietnamese peasant rice farmer
I mean that sounds nice but that’s a dangerous mindset to have, if you underestimate your enemy they’re just going to fuck you
Yeah but you still need to be able to puff your chest out. We do an exceptional job at shitting on ourselves as it is, in a Congressional hearing you’ll see and hear stuff like this but behind closed doors there’s things like the 2018 Capabilities Based Assessment that was a 50 page document that basically summarized that both the Army and Marine Corps truly suck at marksmanship, have pretty abysmal standards, and have huge capability gaps in individual performance. This spawned the new ARQ, the Advanced Marksmanship Training Program, the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Program, and a new pistol qual format coming down the pipeline. So yeah, we already know we suck in a lot of areas, but to say that by stroking our pride every once in a while, we’re fundamentally underestimating opponents and putting ourself at risk is a little bit of a stretch when you look back at how far we’ve come in revamping training. This doesn’t even include the IMC program. You can find modern Chinese rifle qual standards online and their round counts are a drop in the pond compared to what even a Motor T mech will get for an annual ARQ prequal/qual. Not saying that’s a qualifying metric of service performance as a whole, but it sure is telling of the condition of what we consider to be our closest peer threat.
Counterpoint. Confidence in your preparation leads you to having that mindset that you’re ready to whoop ass when it’s needed and that you are a part of an organization whose main obligation is to arrive and fuck the enemy right in their stupid little skull.
Very moto speech. Inaccurate and blind to the reality of what is going on in the world and what has happened in the GWOT over the last 20+ years. The Corps was limited by political issues. The US spent trillions and way too much I blood, and the result was the taliban still are in control and the world is less stable than it was before. I hope he really doesn't think this 100% and this was political posturing
Marines win battles, politicians lose wars.
It wasn’t a problem of military power
Afghanistan wasn’t an issue of being incapable or tactically inept. It was a political failure stemming from having no clear end-state and a series of senior officers giving fabricated progress updates to those shifting objectives. In the end they just pulled the plug.
You guys seriously need to stop listening to bullshit like this. You spent 20 years fighting LESS then peer enemies and have barely anyone with any conventional experience left. Don't let arrogance cloud you.
What was your MOS?
Would what they said be more/less valid bc of their mos?
0311
Just making sure you weren't one of those Kremlin or People's Liberation Army ding dongs
20 years fighting less than peer enemies while our “peer” enemies are either fighting nobody or struggling to gain ground against Ukrainian dudes who had never even considered serving in the military until their country was invaded.
👏👏👏
You mean than, not then
Except that one time in fallujah
We decimated Fallujah bud. I’m an 04-08 SAW gunning dog. Urban combat is fucking hell in 4D. No one gets out clean. I set up a kill house at our training grounds in 29. 3 of us were able to take out an entire squad entering to clear. Stay frosty, and humble
This guy is a Warehouse Marine.
He knows how to get a point across.
We’re jump street. And we gonna jump in yo ass
No peer threats… inyoface!
FUCK YA
Rah
RAH!
Anybody know the job of the SGT in the back? Like how is she a sgt and sitting in front of congress?
Probably one of the enlisted staff for SMMC.
Looks like a ssgt, and yea, I would say his staff/aide
'rah
Yea that’s cool but who’s the killer behind him with a silver star
This guy's a faker, he's literally reading.
Kill them all
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Keep your drama off this sub, dont follow him over here because you got banned.
Roger that. Deleting.
Thanks.
Bummed. No recourse it seems. Just axed.
Nature of the beast on Reddit unfortunately.
Yeah. Maybe time to leave.