Write a Marine

Thanks to GM Roper for sending this along:

Blackfive's Grim interviewed Marine Colonel Simcock, Commander of RCT-6 in Iraq. This is what Col. Grim asked that will only take a minute of your time:

COL. SIMCOCK: (Chuckles.) I'll tell you what, the one thing that all Marines want to know about -- and that includes me and everyone within Regimental Combat Team 6 -- we want to know that the American public are behind us. We believe that the actions that we're taking over here are very, very important to America. We're fighting a group of people that, if they could, would take away the freedoms that America enjoys.

If anyone -- you know, just sit down, jot us -- throw us an e- mail, write us a letter, let us know that the American public are behind us. Because we watch the news just like everyone else. It's broadcast over here in our chow halls and the weight rooms, and we watch that stuff, and we're a little bit concerned sometimes that America really doesn't know what's going on over here, and we get sometimes concerns that the American public isn't behind us and doesn't see the importance of what's going on. So that's something I think that all Marines, soldiers and sailors would like to hear from back home, that in fact, yes, they think what we're doing over here is important and they are in fact behind us .

The Marines have set up a special email address to send a supportive message to the Marines is: RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq .usmc.mil . The emails are being scanned by the PAO before being printed and distributed to individual Marines.

And, guess what?, the RCT-6 has a blog at Fighting 6th Marines

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Our Awesome Military: General Pace

A couple of awesome links about our military:

First, The Military Motivator. Cool. Just darn cool. Check it out, really, it won't take you more than a minute.

Second Marine Corps General Peter Pace:

"One thing that was discussed was whether or not I should just voluntarily retire and take the issue off the table.

I said I could not do that for one very fundamental reason which is that no soldier or Marine in Iraq should think — ever — that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily walked off the battlefield.

That is unacceptable as a leadership thing, in my mind."

There's a reason they don't let Marines be Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairmen -- because they're Marines first and foremost. Marines kills people and break things. If you don't want dead people and broken things, don't call the Marines.

Absolutely friggin outSTANDING General Pace. You absolutely did and are doing the right thing and you should be praised and rewarded, not let go. Keep your head high, sir, as you make me proud, again, to know you are called a Marine.

Semper Fi, General Pace, Semper Fi.

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Happy Flag Day!

Today is Flag Day! Did you know? Is your flag flying? If it's not dark yet, get your flag out there and fly it! Mine has been up all day. Of course, I normally have one flying...but today it's up there all by itself (instead of with a second flag, as is usually the case). Celebrate and fly that flag!

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