Marines to roll up sleeves
Well, now Marines have a reason to reenlist – the commandant and sergeant major of the Corps announced that Marines not in combat will be able to roll up their sleeves soon according to the Stars & Stripes;
“I can’t tell you how many times we have been asked the persistent question, ‘Commandant, are we ever going to return to SLEEVES UP?” the Facebook announcement states. “I’ve thought a lot about this over the past 2.5 years; I realize that it’s important to you. Sleeves up clearly and visually sets us apart.”
Amos and Barrett sent the message via email to all Marine sergeants and corporals, noting that they had heard the comments about rolled sleeves as they’ve traveled around the world talking about recent efforts to “reawaken the soul of [the] Corps” with a renewed focus on discipline, adherence to standards, engaged and concerned leadership and faithful obedience to order.
So there you go, you’re out of excuses. Go see your career counselor, or whatever they call him in the Marines, and take another burst of four years.
Category: Marine Corps
The general consensus in the office yesterday was two-fold: First, Gen Amos’s “Sun’s out, guns out” decision was obviously a last-minute “Please don’t hate me, Marines”. Second, it’ll make a lot of Marines happy for a little while, but it doesn’t change anything of substance. There are bigger problems to worry about than whether we get to show off our arms.
Basically, “Good job coming around to the blindingly obvious decision on a minor issue.”
“[b]“reawaken the soul of [the] Corp[\b]
Are you fucking kidding me? That’s the best he’s got?
““reawaken the soul of [the] Corp
Are you fucking kidding me? That’s the best he’s got?
It’s a trap!
E8 and above will be hiding in the bushes to life marines with visible tattoos now
*Whew!*
I’m greatly relieved that such an important issue has been addressed. Now the CMC can pay attention to all those irritating but lesser issues.
2.5 years? 2.5 fucking years?!?!
Fucking seriously?
Fired for in-fucking-competence.
Does this mean he’ll want to ‘crush’ those Marines who want to keep their sleeves down??
How much longer until he gets replaced???
Not quick enough.
Really. How long before there’s a tattoo conflict with the order to roll sleeves?
I say we give the final say on the pipeline to Gen. Amos. He sounds like a very decisive decider. He ought to be able to snap out a decision in say, three or four years. Obama has had the pipeline under study for five years now, with no end in sight.
Where is ADM Zumwalt when we need him. Navy men from the 70’s will remember him. Another Z-GRAM any one? BZ
A drawdown to manage, equipment to re-fit, future conflicts to prepare for. OK Marines, let get those sleeves rolled back up. Jesus Wept……
Only Commandant James Amos could tour the fleet at a time of massive self-harm, broken families and marriages, depleted morale, massive layoffs, declining compensation, and terrible VA care awaiting retiring marines and come up with such an all-encompassing solution.
I’m glad it only took him 2 1/2 years to fix something that he could have literally done in seconds.
On the plus side, the Pogue POS of a CMC didn’t decide to issue a new style hat to address morale issues.