Done for this day ... 10/24 ,...

 

Drop 'em a courtesy notice and make sure they're still playing, Bird.

If a regular hasn't hit me back in over two weeks, I usually drop 'em a PM and ask if they're still playing.

I'll take the hit for the team. You can add my name a second time.

Stewart

 

Keg is tapped out for Wednesday. Enjoy!

 

The top rep position has changed...

Somehow Stewart and I have both "temporarily" leap frogged Steve...I know it is only temporary...but Stewart is in FIRST PLACE at the moment.

Steve, Stewart and I are all really close on points...so on any given day depending on the rep rotation received...I'm thinking we'll see a different leader...unlike the brickster who enjoyed a HUGE lead over Bruce...the top 3, 4 and 5 positions aren't all that spread out this time...

THANKS to all the active players!!!

 

Should be interesting to see if I can move up at all anymore.

 

got mine done today.. yea!! enjoy folks i hit.

There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.
Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army

<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
Ned Dolan
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General James F. Amos, 35th Commandant of the Marine Corps

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Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:330.3pt;mso-cellspacing:0in;background:white;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Bagdad ain't ****.
Marine Major General John F. Kelly
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight!
MGen. Frank E. Lowe, USA; Korea, 26 January 1952
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Navy Times; November 1994
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.
Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, USA; 12 February 1918
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years.
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; 23 February 1945
(the flag-raising on Iwo Jima had been immortalized in a photograph by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal)
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General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur; Korea, 21 September 1950
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?
Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff
during the assault on Grenada, 1983
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> 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, USN; 10 November 1995
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake".
Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991
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GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC
near Lucy-`le-Bocage as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918
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Colonel Commandant Archibald Henderson, USMC
in a note pinned to his office door, 1836
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> Don't you forget that you're First Marines! Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you!
Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
rallying his First Marine Regiment near Chosin Reservoir, Korea, December 1950
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Cpl. Jeff Sornig, USMC; in Navy Times, November 1994
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.
1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC
in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers... These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost.
2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard, Peleliu, World War II
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Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops.
Gen. Colin Powell, U. S. Army
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
During Operation Desert Storm
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are.
Father Kevin Keaney
1st Marine Division Chaplain
Korean War
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.
James Brady, columnist, novelist,
press secretary to President Reagan, television personality and
Marine
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, U. S. Army
Commander, Operation Desert Storm, February 1991
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
Prime Minister of Britain, Sir Winston Churchhill
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army.
Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War;
shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered
to not wear their khaki leggings.
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Gen. A. M. Gray, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:375.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;border<img src=" http:="" images.ford-trucks.com="" forums="" images="" smilies="" redface.gif"="" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="3" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> A Ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
Adm. David Dixon Porter, USN in a letter to
Colonel Commandant John Harris, USMC, 1863
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Half way to the holiday !!


Enjoy you crazy rep heads

 

I might only be able to pass one more ,Steve B.. after that ,all the rest are in the game. At some point we will all kind of stay in one spot ...

 

I agree with you 100% but on the other have keep on reppin !!!!

 

I'm on it ...

 

HEY GUYS! Been awhile since I chatted. I check in everyday, mainly check out the classifieds, but have noticed I am still getting repped. Just wanted to let you know, that with the weather being excellent, that I probably wont be on much to return. So I appreciate them, but if you want to hold up on me for awhile, I understand!

 

Keepin' up with the keepin' on.

 

Rick
How long have you been naming your kidney stones?






Sorry could not help that lol

 

Are you OK ?...

 

Hey Adam
Sorry we can let you off that easy. You MUST pay your respects....


JKG

I will get you tomorrow.