Double D;
Thanks for clarifying the term...having been "Army", I wasn't familiar with the term, to say nothing about the proper spelling !
I recall the term about "every Marine a rifleman"...the Army used the term "every soldier is an infantryman first"..
Don't know how true this is in today's Army....
Guess I'm just old fashioned, but I truly believe the Army was more effective when the men and women served in different units doing appropriate tasks..
Fishman;
I know some folks would be apprehensive about their sons/g-sons going into direct action against such a barbarous enemy as we presently have...but in this world-wide war; as in WW2...if we don't stop them there; we will have to do it here.
Then too; we cannot discount the "warrior spirit" that many young men have...yet some I've seen around my home area don't even have a clue to "warrior spirit"....
Josh has been "weapons trained all his life, I saw to it that he had a couple years training under an exceptional martial arts Sensai and he has long ago, at about 5yrs age, accepted Christ as his savior.
In the Marine Corps he has qualified expert with "possibles" at 300 & 500 yards in rapid fire. One more belt and he becomes a qualified MC instructor in martial arts.
He is training strenuously right now, spending much time in the field.
I believe he is eminently qualified to face the "baddest of the barbarians"...now prayer is our weapon back home..
Big medicine...
I wasn't sure that they (the brass) in today's "politically correct" age would have the Corpsmen taking extra weapons training..
I certainly can see the potential need for it, and agree with such weapons training...but with people of the ilk of Kennedy & Clinton in the Senate...they may have had a different view of Corpsmen being accomplished with weapons..
...But then of course, the Marines are not as PC as some other branches..
I too ask God to put his hedge of protection around our troops...