> In a message dated 3/20/04 12:29:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> Date:    Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:42:02 +0000
> From:    Ed Graves <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: SCUBA-SE Digest - 17 Mar 2004 to 18 Mar 2004 (#2004-72)
>
> Buzzy wrote:
> >   As far as being a coward, speak for yourself.
> >
> >   And just because you're ignorant of my identity doesn't make me anonymous.
> >
> >   "We" didn't serve, I did, in the US Marines.
> >
> >   You, apparently, were in some boyscout-like quasi-paramilitary rabble like
> > Bjorn.
>
> Ah the marines, great group of guys, and they dress up so pretty.  They did a
> great job of guarding the gates to the naval station, so we squids could get
> a goods night sleep.
> Ed

From Buzzcut:

>
>   Ah, the US Navy, the only military service in the world that had to hire
> -another- military service to fight for them.
>
>   But, hey, someone has to drive us to the fight.

LOL.  Hell yeah!  I joined the Navy to avoid having to fight & am proud of it.  Delivering the fighters to the fight is what I wanted.  Then the USN put me on an ocean going minesweeper (MSO), where in theory we were in front of everyone clearing the way. The life expectancy of a minesweeper entering a live mine field was something like 30 seconds.  Sheesh, I didn't sign up for that.
Ed