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Monday, January 27, 2003   Damn, I'm Proud of the Marines! Stolen from Sgt. Stryker This is a story told by Army General Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief of Central Command. I ended a recent operations briefing for a lot of our folks over there (in Afghanistan) by discussing some of their morale issues. I related to them about a recent tour I had with the American Ambassador when we went around inspecting all of our Marines deployed in their fighting positions. I reminded all of the assembled officers that Marines live in holes and don't have a house to live in like 'heavy forces'. No tanks or lots of tents to sleep in. They carry their 'house' on their back and they live infighting holes. Although the Marines had just lost a buddy (in a Humvee accident), their spirit was 'uplifting'. A question posed by the Ambassador to a Marine drove this point home. The Ambassador asked a young Marine private sitting in his hole, "How is it here?" The Marine answered, "Kind of like the beach without water, Sir." The Ambassador then asked, "If you could get something, what would you like to have?" I related to all of our folks assembled there in front of me that most of us would have answered, a hot meal, a cot, a hot shower, but this Marine private said, "I could use some more ammunition, Sir." -- posted by Chuck at Monday, January 27, 2003 | E-mail | Permalink | Main | 0 comments