Retiring Marine Chesty XIV seems unimpressed by FNG
The beloved Marine mascot Chesty XIV retired at a ceremony held at the Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., on Friday after five years of service to Corps. His last parade ceremony with the storied Marine Barracks will be held Friday night for the evening parade.
Chesty XIV, named after five-time Navy Cross recipient Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis “Chesty” Puller, began his tour with the Corps in February 2013.
His replacement, Chesty XV, was announced late March. The young bulldog puppy recruit has since graduated from recruit training and will take the helm as the Corps’ new mascot on Saturday, according to the Marine Barracks Washington.
That’s about the same look I had when I attended my last Dog and Pony show. It looks like they might still be using the same Colonel and SgtMaj for these horror shows but I didn’t have a Corporal to follow me around and clean up my sh##. Poor Chesty has no idea what awaits him in retirement. Wait until Mrs Chesty starts complaining about him laying around licking his ****’s all day. Semper Fidelis Chesty, you ain’t out of the sh## yet bro. Good luck to the FNG.
The whole story is HERE.
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A bulldog named Chesty may be the only animal in the world that snores louder than me:-) He’s better looking, too.
When I was a legal officer for 2/8 (among many other duties) we had an NJP for a Marine that kicked the local Bulldog mascot. SM lost a stripe under an obscure article “abusing a public animal” or something like that which was a throwback to the horse and mule skinner days.
I just remember the BC being pretty hot about it.
He’s lucky he didn’t lose more than a stripe. Kicking the unit mascot could have caused him to receive serious injury.
I’ve been in Units where doing something like that could cause one to “accidentally” fall up and down a few staircases more than once!
Thank you, Dave, for the nice story.
Could you or others please post this story on TAH? Thank You.
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Why are those Marines clenching their fists?
Because unlike the chair force, they aren’t allowed to diddle themselves in formation.
Briefs and not Boxers…some men never learn.
Some men need the extra support.
Only asked, because they all look like someone goosed them, that’s all.
Can’t be the pooch. Too flat-faced.
That is the position of attention for the Marines and the Coasties.
Thumbs on the trouser seam, fingers in a natural curl.
I remember as a Navy Brat the Marine Barracks at NS Long Beach having a bulldog mascot. His appointed place of duty was in front of the NEX entrance, sleeping in the sun. Dog snored like a running chainsaw…
As a retiree, he gets vet care for life, is entitled to a home loan for a new dog house, may attend obedience school, and his monthly benefits are paid in Milk Bones.
Hope that he doesn’t have a canine dependapottamus… she may want HALF of everything he owns if the bitch leaves him.
I hope the pooch didn’t have 5 Ruff years in the Corp and now he will enjoy the Dog Days of summers waning into the fall. Was his Paw in the Corp also? I see he has all his hair which means he wasn’t De Furred from serving. I wonder if he was given a fire hydrant as a retirement gift. Did I leave anything out on the Punny Corn. I will Paws now to think of anything else to add. Nah that’s it for now.
Please have your POV’s out of the barking lot by 1730.
Let me see your war face!
+++++++++++++ That ties w/ Dave’s post titling. Most excellent, Grasshopper.
Will he spend his retirement years searching for the man that shot his “paw”, or running with Randy Travis Digging up Bones?
It was not unusual for units in Viet Nam to have mascots. The 4th Division, for example, had a tiger, and the 101st Airborne had an eagle. When I was at LZ English, there was a story going around that the 173rd Airborne Brigade once had duck, but got rid of it.
Apparently what happened is that the duck caused some resentment not only because other units had cooler mascots, but also because the bird was pampered with its own special pen and tiny pond next to the General’s quarters.
It so happened that mortar crews up at night to fire illumination rounds for the perimeter discovered that if they finessed altitude and wind drift just so, they, being airborne after all, could steer the illum round parachute to land in the duck pen. After enough direct hits and near-misses, the General’s feathered pal evidently developed a case of avian PTSD and had to be sent home.
Cool article.
Funny.
I needed that.