Warriors nickname back in the news

[ATL MU Warrior]

It's in the Marine uniform code. Male Marines may not carry an umbrella while in uniform.

Doesn't really answer the underlying question.  So it's in their rulebook...why?  Is it unmanly?  Does it give the enemy an advantage?

[warrior_rugby15]

Going in a change of direction, here's the Golden State crowd chanting "Warriors, Warriors" after their Game 6 loss last night.

That chant sounds great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1qRdaA0zqA&feature=player_embedded#!

[Lennys Tap]

we fight for resources and power (usually through the lens of religion)...rarely for peace, rarely for reasons i believe my God would condone.  

the world is a violent and scary place, which is what we made of it, in the name of religion.

People throughout history have wanted to take other people's stuff and have been willing (individually and in groups) to kill to do it. Religion often is a convenient way to dehumanize/demonize the enemy (as are race, culture, "they started it", etc) but the takers will always find justification somewhere.

[keefe]

It's in the Marine uniform code. Male Marines may not carry an umbrella while in uniform.

For whatever reason, for many years no member of the military was allowed to use an umbrella while in uniform under the uniform regs of each service. In the '90's both the Air Force and the Navy changed their uniform regs to allow use of an umbrella while on duty. The Army and Marine Corps still do not allow it.

I have heard that the prohibition is based on that it conflicts with weapons handling but only security forces are armed while in garrison. I really suspect it has to do with someone's notion of manliness.

[keefe]

Or you can have a CinC that willfully violates the USMC code by making 2 young Marines hold an umbrella in direct violation of their uniform protocol.

There was always something false about a certain President saluting the Marine or Airman at the base of Marine 1/AF 1 given the Royal Couple's disdain for the military. The military will always demonstrate unquestioned loyalty to the CinC, even if that loyalty is not reciprocated. 

[tower912]

Pretty sure the vatican flat out declared the current war did not meet the requirements of just wars.   

[Hards Alumni]

There was always something false about a certain President saluting the Marine or Airman at the base of Marine 1/AF 1 given the Royal Couple's disdain for the military. The military will always demonstrate unquestioned loyalty to the CinC, even if that loyalty is not reciprocated. 

So basically, you're just an a-hole.

[ATL MU Warrior]

So basically, you're just an a-hole.

Don't forget to thank him for his service.

[keefe]

Pretty sure the vatican flat out declared the current war did not meet the requirements of just wars.   

You mean the one where religious fanatics perverted their dogma to allow surprise attacks against unarmed civilians to include bombing US embassies in east Africa, hijacking civilian airliners filled with women and children and flying them into skyscrapers, planting bombs on subways, buses, and trains at the height of rush hour?

I have come upon villages in Afghanistan soon after the Taliban has sexually assaulted girls in front of their fathers then killed the entire family for the crime against Islam of allowing females to possess books. I have been on the far side of the market place in Ramadi and Samarra when teenage suicide bombers have blown themselves up in the name of Allah, thereby killing dozens of women and children who were simply buying groceries.  

I can see how the Vatican would struggle with seeing how the current jihad waged by the Taliban, al-Qaeda, AQI, Abu Sayyaf,  al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al-Shabaab, Jemaah Islamiyah, Ansar al-Islam, etc... is in any way just.

[keefe]

So basically, you're just an a-hole.

Intellectual inferiority must be a sad thing.

[Hards Alumni]

Intellectual inferiority must be a sad thing.

You'd know best.  Insinuating the PUSA doesn't have respect for the military is the height of ignorance.

[keefe]

You'd know best.  Insinuating the PUSA doesn't have respect for the military is the height of ignorance.

Not speaking of the current guy.

[wildbill sb]

There was always something false about a certain President saluting the Marine or Airman at the base of Marine 1/AF 1 given the Royal Couple's disdain for the military. The military will always demonstrate unquestioned loyalty to the CinC, even if that loyalty is not reciprocated. 

I'm an ex-Marine, and no USMC Uniform Code would/could/should ever stand in the way of protecting the CinC from the enemy or the elements, for that matter.  Your excesses in so many ways prompt me to put you on "Ignore."