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The "Ask a Seahawk Fan" Thread

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Chief_Chokeaho Community Regular

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I wasn't a CSM but I was a MGySgt (retired) and can tell you I never enjoyed walking around correcting Marines. That said, we allow our young NCOs to be leaders and most of the small stuff gets corrected at that level. If the Army did the same, maybe you wouldn't have to wear the glow belts with your cammies.

Typical marine mentality. Thinking they are elite when they are not.

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We all adopted The Black and Blue Wrecking Crew as our team.

 

 

all 5 of us.

 

But Brock Coyle! That should get us a little bit of Montana love, right?

What do I think of Montana...let's see. It's not really foremost on my mind. I used to work with a guy from Montana - he was always telling stories that started with "Back in Western Montana..." - One day I was impatient with him and asked him why he thought it was necessary to specify "Western" so I got a lesson on that. Apparently Montana is much like Washington, with the green pointy parts in the west and the brown flat parts in the east. 

But yeah, I'm probably with the majority of people who think it's mostly like the Wild West there. Plus Silverwood theme park.

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I wasn't a CSM but I was a MGySgt (retired) and can tell you I never enjoyed walking around correcting Marines. That said, we allow our young NCOs to be leaders and most of the small stuff gets corrected at that level. If the Army did the same, maybe you wouldn't have to wear the glow belts with your cammies.

 

Who has two thumbs, been shot at by more Marines than Iraqis, and is thankful you fugers can't aim?

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I wasn't a CSM but I was a MGySgt (retired) and can tell you I never enjoyed walking around correcting Marines. That said, we allow our young NCOs to be leaders and most of the small stuff gets corrected at that level. If the Army did the same, maybe you wouldn't have to wear the glow belts with your cammies.

 

It was fun being apart of the Corporal Mafia.

 

Can you feel the jealousy?

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But Brock Coyle! That should get us a little bit of Montana love, right?

What do I think of Montana...let's see. It's not really foremost on my mind. I used to work with a guy from Montana - he was always telling stories that started with "Back in Western Montana..." - One day I was impatient with him and asked him why he thought it was necessary to specify "Western" so I got a lesson on that. Apparently Montana is much like Washington, with the green pointy parts in the west and the brown flat parts in the east. 

But yeah, I'm probably with the majority of people who think it's mostly like the Wild West there. Plus Silverwood theme park.

 

There really isn't an "indigenous" team here, to be fair....it's split largely between NFC North teams, bandwagon frontrunners like the *Stealers, Hawks, Patriots, and Cowbitches...but from what I've mostly seen it's Packer/Bears/Vikings and Lions are sort of the afterthought, Pittsburgh, Hawks, or Denver. 

 

I do run into the odd Panther fan here or there and it surprises the hell out of me.  My best memory of being bigskycatsguy is a sports bar in Missoula in, I think, 07, when an entire damn table of Carolinians showed up out of nowhere when I got to the bar and spent the entire game against the Titans and spent the whole game reliving 03 and wishing we could get that Super Bowl team back.  The only time in my life I've been around a group of Cats fans and it was the damnedest thing I've ever been apart of.  That, and being the only damn person in that very bar going for us when we beat the Bears in 05 are my proudest moments (in spite of the fact the Cats lost against the Titans, in bad fashion, if I remember right.)

 

I probably should've done the Browns game like I planned to this year, but the van needed work.

 

Next year, part of my tax return is going to get me to Charlotte come hell or high water.  Depending on the schedule, I'd like to do my birthday in late September if it works out.

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I'm not putting down the Army, you do things your own way. I happen to like the way the Marines push for small unit leadership.

 

 

The Army is much larger, as it is designed to be an occupying force. I'm combat arms. We do have a chain of command that we use. I'm a team leader and my 4 joes are my responsibility and it works its way up. The support units and jobs in the Army don't work like that. 

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The Army is much larger, as it is designed to be an occupying force. I'm combat arms. We do have a chain of command that we use. I'm a team leader and my 4 joes are my responsibility and it works its way up. The support units and jobs in the Army don't work like that.

I know. I was an LNO to 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan in 07/08 and was colocated w/3rd Army in Kuwait in 11/12; completely different worlds. Your combat arms is definitely run more like the Marines than your support. In the Marines they're run the same.

*edit - spelling

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I'm not putting down the Army, you do things your own way. I happen to like the way the Marines push for small unit leadership.

I believe to this sums things up:

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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