ReConUSMC,
On this Memorial Day weekend I want to say a special thanks to your Marines up in I Corps during the Vietnam War who made the ultimate sacrifice, as did their brothers did in the Pacific in WWII (Korea too!). You guys did a terrific job up there. I’m not a Vietnam War vet, but my service dates kind of slip me in there as “Vietnam Era Veteran” (kind of cheap if you ask me, because I don’t belong in the same room with you guys). I’m an Army vet (non-combat MOS)who would be ashamed to have a Sgt. Hulka type as my boss.
The comments I made earlier about Colin Powell were not meant to be denigrative. Just sayin’ that he was primarily a staff officer who pretty much had his ticket punched throughout his career. His job was to make others look good. His two tours in Vietnam were as a staff officer. Never had a line command of a platoon, company, or battalion. These are just facts.
At the conclusion of Operation Desert Storm and Gulf War I many of us were pissed that the job was not finished. You don’t fight wars this way and really win. You crush his windpipe and then kick his corpse. Part of the blame for that command brain fart goes to President Bush I and Brent Scowcroft and the rest of the jizya-paying, Muzzie-lovin’ elites. We would have discovered a lot sooner what Saddam had in the pipeline, thanks to our enemies the Russians. In fact, they would not have enough time for their Spetznaz operators to get the stuff out of there, like they did before the launch of OIF. And by not presenting those facts of the Russian WMD removal program to the American people GWB cooked his own goose. We had the goods on Operation Sarindar, but somehow feared putting the information out there.
