Four Marines and One sailor killed stateside. Domestic war at home?

2015-07-18T11:59:50-04:00

How every single Marine feels right now:

Congratulations, ISIS.

You wanted attention, and yesterday, you got it. Only, you chose the wrong people to seek that attention from.

You did not get the attention of our weak President. He tweeted his support for your medieval holiday following your cowardly attack. You did not get the attention of our useless and corrupt Congress. They were too busy lining their pockets.

When you attacked those four Marines, you got the attention of every one of our 186,800 active duty Marines, along with every Marine who ever served.

You just stirred up hate, discontent, and malice within a group of people who relish the idea of engaging the enemy.

There is something you obviously don't yet know about Marines...

The brotherhood we share is stronger than the challenges we face, the weapons we master, or the enemies we destroy.

You will learn that soon though.

You attacked a group of men who bond over the smell of gunpowder and misery—and enjoy it. You didn't attack America's leaders, you attacked America's Marines, and that is a battle you are not prepared for.

You see, we won't play by the rules you're accustomed to seeing. When you play in our backyard, we don't have to answer to any chain of command. We will not follow ridiculous ROEs crafted by a spineless bureaucrat to appease some goat herding tribal leader. And we won't be wearing uniforms so that you can easily ambush us.

Nope. None of that shit.

When you think you're walking into a target-rich environment, you're really walking into an ambush.

That pudgy, middle-aged guy wearing khakis in the mall, who unbeknownst to you, is a former 0311 and armed, will dump your sorry ass before you have a chance to scream "allah snackbar." And that soccer mom pushing a stroller, she's got a Glock and will happily leave you gasping in a pool of your own blood before she lets you hurt her children.

We are here and we still have the training and experience to wage war, whether here or abroad. And wage war we will. Every one of us are willing to fight and die to protect our Marine Corps brothers and sisters, our families and friends, and our way of life.

And we will win, because while you fight to destroy what you hate, we fight to protect what we love.

Semper FI

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Jul 18 at 2015 12:28 PM

2015-07-18T12:28:02-04:00

We lost a 5th brother. Petty Officer Randall Smith died this morning. RIP.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/us/tennessee-naval-reserve-shooting/

Chattanooga shooting: Fifth service member dies - CNN.com

A Navy petty officer wounded in Thursday's shooting at the Navy Operational Support Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, died early Saturday, the Navy said.

Response by Capt Lance Gallardo made Jul 18 at 2015 12:53 PM

2015-07-18T12:53:38-04:00

We have really gone soft as a country. The SS infiltrators at the Battle of the Bulge caught wearing US uniforms were dispatched by firing squad pretty quickly. We have been according EPW Status to irregular fighters for all of GWOT (Iraq Sunni and Shia Militias, Taliban in Afghanistan), who don't wear uniforms or follow the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of people they capture (Example. ISIS fighters murdering captured Iraq soldiers for instance in mass graves on Video and posting online for propaganda and recruiting purposes, social media beheading of captured Americans and Japanese and Europeans), and yet we do not summarily execute these irregular fighters after we are done collecting whatever intel we can extract from them. We all know what happens to captured US Military and civilians when ISIS or the Taliban or the Shia Militias get their hands on our people. The Marines intentionally did not routinely take Japs prisoners in the Island hopping campaigns with notable exceptions like Pvt Guy Gabaldon, USMC (who spoke Japanese and could get large numbers of Japs to surrender by promising them fair treatment). Everyone knew what the Japs would do to a captured Marine or GI and it was well understood that we were engaged in a no quarter "War of Extermination," with the Japanese. I submit that we are largely fighting the same kind of "War of Extermination" against ISIS if not also against the Taliban and Shia Militias (who have temporarily stopped attacking US Forces in Iraq on orders of there Iranian Masters because somehow we are in a temporary alliance with them and Iran against the perceived more immediate threat of ISIS). Our enemies (Violent Islamic fundamentalist Iran, ISIS (by definition a Violent Islamic Fundamentalist "VIF" Ideology), violent Shia Islamic Fundamentalists, and other violent Sunni Islamic Fundamentalists groups like Al Qaeda) understand they are engaged in a war of extermination against the US and the Liberal Democracies of the West (and Israel). Pres. Obama and the liberals who support and surround him seem to be the only people who do not understand that we are engaged, whether we want to be or not, in a war of extermination with people who are very clear on the fact that they do not believe they can live in a world where they can peacefully co-exist with Liberal Tolerant Democracies such as the United States and other Western Style Democracies.

Response by PVT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 18 at 2015 1:06 PM

2015-07-18T13:06:47-04:00

Not a marine, go army.. but.. this really fired me up. It's not just the marines who are pissed. I think every service member is pissed off by this. The marines are a family but so is the U.S. military as a whole and family comes first and watches out for each other.