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sjgusmc21

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  1. Gunfun:  It's a running joke in bristol bay how many marines decide not to re:up and then take deckhand jobs. They pretty much all say "bootcamp had nothing on this" or something along those lines. But then, maybe they would say that about waiting in the returns line at target after christmas... Not knocking on marines, I just think it is standard hyperbole. That and they tend to come with an inflated perception of their own toughness. Some are, some aren't. There are a lot of tuna fishers who come the same way. Proud to make things hard on themselves.

     

    No knocking taken. Toughness comes in varying levels.  Some are made for it, some are not.  I have no doubt about the inflated perceptions....seen many of those while I was in.  Hat's off to ya. 

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  2. Been to Alaska 3 times, don't plan to ever go back.  Of course, this was courtesy of Club Fed....USMC.  Not the best places to go 'camping', or sightseeing.....:)  OMG the freak'n mosquitoes...OMG.   24 hours of dark....24 hours of light, the dust.....yeah, MAYBE if I was a cruise ship looking at those 'pretty' icebergs....maybe. 

     

    I am sure that there are beautiful places there...but I lived in swamps and the like, humped the hell out of the terrain, was chased (my entire platoon) by moose (have a pic somewhere of my entire platoon on the pipeline...waiting for Range Control to chase the damn mother moose away), was chased by a bear.....never saw it, but i damn well knew it was stalking me while I was taking a shit, and when i ran, it chased.....didn't have any more shit to shit out.  All I had was my A2 with BFA and K-Bar...right.  Several Marines with hypothermia (first time I ever had to strip down bodies and put them into mummy bags together), and had 2 Marines actually have to get evac'd from the field...they were mentally and physically overwhelmed with mosquito bites.  Unreal. 

     

    Yeah, wonderful place.  

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  3. i have a PTR-91 carbine and love it.  Got 50 or so brand new mags still wrapped in plastic and grease for it for around $25 a few years ago.  Not a lego rifle for sure, accurate enough for me.  The problem is that with mine, I can't shoot (so I am told) certain types of mil spec 7.62 out of it.  Might clog the flutes.  Haven't tested that, but I love the rifle and have enough .308 ammo stocked up that I don't care.  The HK sights are amazing, and I don't utilize scopes, only iron sights for me.  Dressed mine up in the original wood, and just gives me chub every time I fondle it.  That's all the experience I have with .308 semi's.  But since no one else mentioned the PTR, thought I would.

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  4.  I can't even begin to understand how the survivors feel, the ones that lost their loved ones and children, I hope to never be put in that position.  I also will never understand how a human being could stand there and shoot innocents, much less babies and children.  My only comforting thought is that he was not a human being.  I can only justify it in that manner.

     

    IMO, when God gave us free will he also told us what is right and wrong.  He has also allowed us to be good or to become evil, in a way to fall on our own sword if that is what we wish to do.  As I believe, this is why he no longer interferes with our stupidity and horrendous acts that we do to one another.  We will answer for our mistakes one day.  But that is just my opinion. 

     

    My heart and constant thoughts/prayers go out to those that survived and to those that perished to that fucking scumbag piece of shit.  He will get his, and probably already is. 

     

    I know I shouldn't say this, but I hope his skin is burning and melting off of his bones over, and over, and over for eternity right now.

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