Run With The Fox how do you REALLY feel about all of this?
Fine as wine in the sunshine. I'll go up against anyone who posts here with my welding expertise- in both ferrous, non-ferrous and the basic three grades to tool and die steels--As far as my service to My Country in my beloved USMC- when I went into the Marines you had to volunteer- they don't take draftees- I said this elsewhere- I was a 0311 and a 2112- a REMF who worked out of base and field Armory locations, both Stateside and overseas--I have never claimed to have received either a Purple Heart or a Bronze Star, nor would I- stolen valor is a heinous crime and diminishes the honor that should rightly go to those who earned them. All Marines are Rifleman, you don't graduate from Boot Camp if you are a "Non-Qual"-- as for Armorers- we are essential- See the Armorer's Song from the Opera- the late Nash Buckingham quoted it in 1966 when he received the Award Gun (M21 12 gauge) from his friend John Olin at the Lockhaven Country club in Illinois "Oh, the sword is a weapon to rule the world, I honor the man who shakes it- But what is he, nor what could he be, withour first the man who makes it"..
