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   >> >> How come there's no annual Navy-Marines football game?   
   >> > Because we would wallop them.  :)   
   >>    
   >> & you can't be busting their morale so badly   
   > And we would hurt their feelings, and we know how sensitive they are.  :)   
      
   Yet y'all are on cruises in the Caribbean & popping in on Mardi Gras    
   occasionally, when do you praxtice football?   
      
   Well, they're just hitching rides on the same ships, so same question, eh?   
      
   >> Was your training pretty prosaic, like not too dissimilar to what army boys   
   > go through in boot, or do you share boot camp for training?   
   > No, they had their own boot camp.   
   > Navy boot camp was rather easy.  We only marched to and from class,   
   > carrying wooden rifles.   
   > About once a week we hit the obstruction field which was just climbing   
   > over walls, going up and down lines as if boarding or leaving a ship (hand   
   > over hand), etc.   
   > There were no long hikes, marching (other than to class), etc.   
      
   Must be nice -- why so easy, is it because the thinking is that direct naval    
   warfare is ancient history?   
      
   Are the nuclear missile capable subs under Navy? Is it a separate group who    
   train for those? & I guess SEALs are the ones who might sneak into a country    
   using underwater sea-dos?   
      
   Does USAF handle the carriers themselves, or is that Navy?   
      
   > The only time I marched after that was in a Memorial Day parade and got   
   > an extra day off for that.  :)   
      
   Sweet!   
      
   >> I thank you for your service   
   > Thank you but I didn't do that much and was just serving my country and   
   > doing what a good male citizen should do.   
      
   Fair enough; but you were there, available to bedeployed, if needed, to put    
   yourself between the enemy & the non-combatants behind you.  That's not such   
   a  thing any more, so I do respect it & honour it when I meet/recognize it.   
      
   My disrespect is saved wholly for those who make war for the purposes of    
   profiteering. (I'm looking at you, Walmart & Big Steel) and for those who do    
   disservice to the uniform or country, whether of mine or any other. I include    
   those who act like asses when visiting (shore leave or otherwise just passing    
   through, depending on branch.)   
      
   The rightwing wingnuts like to demand we respect & honour every troop. I'm a    
   little more particular than that. . . I want to know the one I'm speaking   
   with  is of the good type, not the goofball type, before I determine how much   
   respect I want to give.   
      
   Nowadays you only hear of the ones each extremist end of the political    
   continuum wants to highlight.   
      
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