They’ve got the right stuff, baby…
Training at lejeune. Obviously before Earl.
Marines rush a casualty to a Huss in January, 1968. 1/9 Marines. Heroes. Mine has a proud heritage to live up to. (he can do it.)
cheers to the Marine, who’ll be doing this all day (and all day for a lot of days). i was given an exceptionally detailed explanation of how this works last night, which ended with a “did you really want to know?” and an explanation that, like he’s not exactly fascinated by my dance routines, he’s interested in me - and so them by association. although, i must admit: mortar is pretty freaking cool.
“If I Die Before You Wake” sung by Dustin Evans (via dgbrainard)
Half a world away, you’ll still be the only thing to me.
IAVA / Ad Council - Alone (via IAVAVids) and i crrrrryyy like a baby.
My biggest regret ever is not using my G.I. bill college fund that I served 3 combat tours for. The 10 year limit was not enough time to get over being comfortable in public again.
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Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and federal authorities have warned people all along the Eastern seaboard to be prepared to evacuate. Emergency officials as far north as Maine were checking their equipment and urging people to have disaster plans and supplies ready.
Earl was still more than 700 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, with top sustained winds of 125 mph. It was on track to near the North Carolina shore late Thursday or early Friday and then blow north off the coast, with forecasters cautioning that it was still too early to tell how close the storm may come to land.
Hurricane watches were out from Surf City, N.C., to Virginia’s Parramore Island. Not since Hurricane Bob in 1991 has such a powerful storm had such a large swath of the East Coast in its sights, said Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center.
“A slight shift of that track to the west is going to impact a great deal of real estate with potential hurricane-force winds,” Feltgen said.
