GREAT thread, obaf!!! It's so true, we really need to be thanking the men and women of the armed forces for all that they have done, and continue. Thank you to the veterans who went and fought the wars that we couldn't do.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
This is my brother & his fiance'....at present he is in Iraq...and has been there since "jumping" in about this time last year...he will be 22 next month
I am EXTREMELY proud of him and his service to all of us.
Yeah I will weigh in and say thanks to all the British forces that have doen this country proud whenver they have been called in to action.
And respect to my mates in the Black watcha and Scots guards who have been in Iraq this year
The United State Marine Corp has Ooh-rah like the army's Hooah but better. The army is for candy-asses.
Ooh-rah
4 years as a scout sniper in the USMC.
21 months in Iraq in two tours.
Best job in the world. (Sitting around with an M40A3)
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
Why, oh why?
'cause I need to watch things die
From a distance
Oh right. We never did the whole hoorah or ohh rah thing in the Royal Marines in fact I don't think it's something anyone in the British army did or does.
I believe that the British had a battle cry during WWII. It was Hurrah and I think that the USMC's Ooh-rah cam from the Brit's Hurrah
Ooh-rah
4 years as a scout sniper in the USMC.
21 months in Iraq in two tours.
Best job in the world. (Sitting around with an M40A3)
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
Why, oh why?
'cause I need to watch things die
From a distance
Yeah probably I knnow that more recently we tend to scream the hurrah may have worked in WW2 but teh screamin seems to be more affective. A little before my time but my CO once told me that when the battle for Goosegreen in the Falklands commenced it was the dead of night and the screaming of the British soldiers scared the Argies sh*tless morale of the story win the phsycological battle and you are half way there.
Yeah In Iraq we have Humvees with massive speakers that blast Rock and Heavy metal all day You can hear them coming from miles away
Ooh-rah
4 years as a scout sniper in the USMC.
21 months in Iraq in two tours.
Best job in the world. (Sitting around with an M40A3)
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
Why, oh why?
'cause I need to watch things die
From a distance
11-10-2003 08:54 PM
