Archive for April 2012
Making Marines – A Drill Instructor Story – Part 1. Plus, teachers get to try it too
From the US Marines Facebook page:
Last year, more than 30,000 young Americans became U.S. Marines. They did it through the efforts of their drill instructors. Watch what it takes to make a Marine.
Like their Facebook page. Don’t want these guys mad at ya.
Oh, and check out these teachers and counselors from Wisconsin who flew to California to experience Marine boot camp first hand:
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — When high school counselors tour colleges, they step into the shoes of a student. However, college isn’t the only option for graduates. Many are called to join the military. FOX6 News traveled with a group of educators as they stepped into the boots of Marines-in-training to get a glimpse of what boot camp is like.
While it takes years to become a teacher, it takes just 13 weeks to become a U.S. Marine. For three days, educators were able to experience first hand the extreme difference between the two sets of training.
Two teachers from Wilmot, one from Waterford, counselors from Racine and Cudahy, plus one Menomonee Falls principal went on the trip of a lifetime. They traveled into the field of Marine Corps boot camp. The mission was to experience first hand what it takes to earn the title ofU.S. Marine.
“The process essentially hasn’t changed in over 200 years, but there’s a lot of fallacies and misconceptions out there on how Marines are made, and what we do here on the dept. We need to educate the educators. They need to see what we’re really like. We’re not the stereotypical Marines that you might see in the movies,” Marine Sgt. Major Peter Siaw said.
Marines may be the country’s first line of defense, but teachers are on the front lines, helping the nation’s youth decide their future. “I’ve talked to every single student about what they’re looking for, and military is always an option,” Horlick High School counselor Kate Kulinski said. “It’s kind of hard to talk to them when you really don’t know exactly what it is they’re going to be doing,” Cudahy High School counselor Amy Oost said.
Related articles
- Upstate youth, future Marines, preview ‘Boot Camp’ (dvidshub.net)
- Wisconsin educators travel to CA for Marine Corps boot camp (fox6now.com)
MeggyMac, how low can you go?
I guess Meghan McCain missed the memo: Sandra Fluke is a leftist plant?
My fav meeting of the night, the very brave and badass Sandra Fluke! #MSNBCafterparty twitter.com/McCainBlogette…
— Meghan McCain (@McCainBlogette) April 29, 2012
Come to think of it, maybe she’s fully aware. I think Meghan is a plant, too. The green leafy kind.
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World’s youngest Seabee? 3 year old operates mini excavator
So funny! He has to slide down off the seat to reach the pedals to track (drive) it forward. Gets it done!
“180″ Movie: America’s Holocaust -
If you’ve never heard of this movie, I’m not going to tell you what it’s about, just that it’s 30 minutes long, and deals with a great evil – and also a tremendous good.
I’ve had this video saved for a week or more, meaning to watch it. Tonight, I did, and I wish more could:
Since “Change” really means “Fail” – What if I WANTED America to fail? How would I do it?
From a group called “Free Market America“,
The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism—it’s become an economic suicide pact. And we’re here to challenge it. On Earth Day, visit www.freemarketamerica.org.
We’re Free Market America.
Our mission is to defend economic freedom against environmental extremism. Since the 1960s, environmental regulation has skyrocketed by over 7,000 percent! It’s a no-brainer that everyone wants clean water and clean air. But when it comes to environmental regulation, we’ve catapulted past commonsense.
The Small Business Administration estimates that environmental regulation costs America’s economy over $281 billion – every year. For a small business owner, the cost of regulation averages over $4,000 per worker. Those costs get passed onto our nation’s consumers in the form of higher product costs and, inevitably, fewer jobs for working Americans.
How did we get here?
Free Market America began as Free Market Florida. In 2011, we began campaigning against the U.S. EPA’s so-called “Water Tax” – a Florida-focused measure that would’ve required the water in roadside drainage canals to meet the same standards as Florida’s pristine rivers and streams. Economists estimated the “Water Tax” would’ve cost Florida’s farmers, taxpayers, businesses and consumers billions each year.
A year earlier, in 2010, we led a coalition of more than 330 business, civic and labor groups against a Sierra Club-backed ballot initiative that aimed to shut down economic growth in the Sunshine State. We won that battle; but we realized that fringe environmental groups are well-financed litigation engines determined to steamroll commonsense whenever it’s convenient for them. We founded Free Market Florida to fight back.
Now, we’re taking the same approach to environmental issues of national concern. That’s why we want to hear from you. Where is environmental extremism threatening the free market? Drop us a line.
Environmental extremists are destroying our economy, and our country. The gears are grinding to a halt thanks to Obama and his EPA. They went from learning to stop blatant industrial polluters and teaching Americans to pick up after themselves to stopping everything, and demonizing humanity itself.
Somebody with the guts to turn this nation back to reality needs to replace Obama in November.
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- If I Wanted America To Fail … (minx.cc)























