Fw: Let The Bodies Hit The Floor... & Then Piss On Them

["Don Greenlaw" <dgreenlaw@cox.net>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Chris Pangalos
To: Chris Pangalos
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:41 AM
Subject: Let The Bodies Hit The Floor... & Then Piss On Them


Warning:  Not for delicate ears.  Some VERY "salty" adult-only language, the 
author is an extremely passionate Marine Grunt.  As for me, another Marine 
Grunt, I agree 100% with the author except for one thing . . . I wouldn't 
have pissed on them only if they were on fire-I would've rather watched them 
slowly burn to death!



                Let The Bodies Hit The Floor... & Then Piss On Them




                     boston.com




               So the whole world is a buzz with the news and footage that 
depicts four Marine Corps Snipers urinating on Taliban fighters in 
Afghanistan.  Everybody is "shocked" & "disgusted" that these Marines could 
do something so abhorring and deplorable.  Now heads are going to roll from 
the top down and these four Marines will more than likely be charged and 
their careers ruined.



               You see its incidents like this where the morality and 
self-righteousness of the American public comes out and interjects itself 
into the Military, right or wrong.  But here's my response to America and 
the rest of the world; why are you all surprised?







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               From the beginning we Marines are all told that no matter 
what your MOS, you are all Marine Corps Rifleman. That means even if you you're 
"a pogue," when the shit hits the fan you're going to find yourself sighting 
in down behind your rifle on the enemy.



               Your training does not teach you to fire warning shots. 
Your training does not teach you to aim for the knee caps to incapacitate an 
enemy.  Your training teaches you to aim center mass and squeeze the trigger 
and put that fuckin' enemy down. for good.  That is what we are trained to 
do, to kill without regard for that "human" life we just wasted.



               Now let's take that training further, let's talk about the 
Infantry Man, AKA the Grunt.  His training takes him far beyond that of an 
everyday pogue.



               The Grunt is immersed in a culture of death, destruction and 
decay.  He is a highly skilled instrument of war, praying for war so that he 
can demonstrate to everybody and himself, how much of a warrior and badass 
he really is.  Because of this training, we Grunts are on an island even in 
the world of the Marine Corps where everybody is a "Rifleman" first.



               We have a humor and demeanor all our own that even our 
fellow Marines don't understand, nor do they want to.  An "enemy's" life is 
worthless to us.  That same enemy is trying to kill us, hell they may have 
even already killed some of us.



               That same enemy is setting up roadside IED's to kill and 
maim American's or our allies.  Those roadside IED's also kill and maim the 
civilian population in the same areas, which if around when they go off, 
those same American's help the indigenous population after the blast.



               This is the same enemy who beheads civilians and Military 
personnel on recorded video and then display's it to the world.



               The same enemy, who kills Military Contractors in Iraq & 
then burns the bodies, drags the bodies through the streets & then hangs the 
bodies from a bridge for the whole world to see.

               This is the same enemy that hides within its own civilian 
population using them as shields to be discarded when they are done with 
them.  Is that enough with the examples or do you all get my point about our 
enemies.  So this is what the Grunt thinks of every time he steps out on a 
patrol or escorts a convoy, etc.



               The Grunt knows that if and when he gets into a firefight, 
the enemy will not show him or his buddy next to him any quarter.  He knows 
that given the chance the enemy will mutilate his body and put him on 
display for the whole world to see to advance their own agenda.



               Therefore, the Grunt kills without remorse.. and then make 
jokes about it.



               Right or wrong, these things have been going on since the 
dawn of warfare.  It just that until the Vietnam War, reporters were not 
embedded into war zones and given free access to report what they see.



               War fighting is not for the common everyday person to 
understand.  And honestly, the common everyday person has no desire or taste 
for it.  Instead, they just choose to talk about write or wrong and what 
"they would of wouldn't do if they were in the situation".  Fact of the 
matter is they would NEVER put themselves in that situation.



               This includes not only the everyday civilian but also our 
very own politicians and higher ranking Military officials.  I have already 
been reading and watching the fallout that this has caused in the Pentagon 
and on Capitol Hill.  Everybody is coming out of the woodwork to get their 
face time on the national and world nightly news.  Mind you these are some 
of the same people who cheat on their spouses, take money from lobbyist and 
sell out their constituents, break the law and then use their political 
power to get off, who "work" only 52.6% of the time in a 260 day work year, 
the people who can't pass a budget and even the very same people who cut 
funding to the VA, Military programs to support veterans & the Military as a 
whole.



               The same people who spend their days arguing over a budget 
to provide needed equipment like body armor and armor plating for our 
vehicles while our Military is out in some far away desert dying because 
they didn't have the equipment when they went to war in the first place!  I 
apologize; I digress to topics for another day and another rant...



               Here's where I'm going with all of this; we are trained for 
war.  To put it bluntly, we are trained killers of men.  We are something 
special.  Should we be held to higher standards then our enemies. perhaps. 
But these things happen when you put a 19-23 year old in a combat 
environment with death all around them.



               They see it every time they leave the wire and sometimes 
even inside the supposed safe are of the wire.  So death becomes no longer 
taboo but just another day in country with people trying to kill you and 
your friends.  And those people trying to kill you. Fuck 'em!  They're not 
even human beings.  They're animals to be put down with extreme prejudice. 
Why?  Because our Country and Commanders told us to do so.



               And more importantly. because if we don't. they will kill us 
or the guy next to us and that ain't gonna happen.



               Perhaps Major Powers in the great movie "Heartbreak Ridge" 
was right when he told Gunny Highway (played by Clint Eastwood); "You should 
be sealed in a case that reads break glass only in the event of war."



               Guess what... this is a war.  A war that America and her 
allies obviously no longer have a taste for.  How quickly America and her 
people forget about past transgressions against us.



               Well here's the reality to sum all of this; the Grunt does 
not forget.  He does not forget about 9/11.  He does not forget about 
beheadings by Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.



               He does not forget about the civilian contractors burned and 
hung in Iraq.  He does not forget about the IED that took his friend's life.



               He does not forget about the firefight or sniper round that 
took his friends life.  Hell, even I haven't forgotten about the Somalis 
that desecrated the Army soldiers in Mogadishu.

               And for that I say, fuck 'em all & piss on their corpses.



               To close this little rant I will say this; the ONLY thing 
those four Marines did wrong was film themselves while pissing on the 
corpses.  Situational awareness, gentlemen.



                Semper Fi -



               *These opinions are mine & mine alone.  Though I'm sure a 
great number of readers will agree with me on this subject.  If you don't 
agree, I don't care.*