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Published: 2012-10-13 13:09:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 141440; Favourites: 6986; Downloads: 2309
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Lance Cpl. Christopher Heatherington, combat engineer with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and a native of Fairbury, Ill., attempts to cheat off a neighboring fourth-grader during a multiplication test here, Oct. 10. Taking a break from their engineering civil affair project at the elementary school, the Marines interacted with the students in class. The ENCAP is one of multiple humanitarian civil affairs projects conducted by the 31st MEU throughout the island of Palawan during the Amphibious Landing Exercise in the Philippines. PHIBLEX, now in its 29th iteration, is an annually-scheduled exercise between the U.S. and Philippine forces, aimed at strengthening military-to-military interoperability and bilateral relationships.Related content
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Some people just don't have respect for the people that are trying to keep the US clean and safe. They just sit in their houses browsing on their phones and relaxing in the sun, but they don't realize why they can do that. They can do that because people are constantly trying to protect this babied and sheltered country. The soldiers blowing up buildings don't love to do it, they have to do it. It's not really their personal choice. When they do things like that, the don't think just about the present, but the future. Besides, other countries are killing our people, imprisoning them, and torturing them to death. Terrorists attacked us in 9/11. People might say that was a long time ago, but in reality with the timeline, it wasn't. What do people think when they hear that the soldiers coming back home need rehab? It's not because they're "violent" or "need to settle down", it's because they can't live with themselves because of what they've had to go through and do. People need to have the experience of fighting for freedom, giving their lives and futures away, for the spoiled brats back home, before they talk bad about the military. They don't know anything.
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Yeah, most people don't even realise that most soldiers aren't even fighters. They are mechanics, Clerks, administrators, engineers, etc.
It is funny. Most people still see WW2 vets, some who were ordered to level entire cities, heroes. Yet one modern soldier accidently kills someone by mistaking them for a suicide bomber and suddenly he is a monster.
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"Military are dumb animals to be used for the US foreign policy"
Do you know who said that? Good old Henry Kissinger. I may have butchered that quote a little (quoting it from memory). Do you honestly think that the boys and girls are sent halfway across the world to fight some just wars, defending their Fatherland and their loved ones? How naive are you trying to be? They are sent by the bankers, politicians and corporations to protect their interests.
Find out how they are treated when they come back. The VA puts them on "no treatment" lists, they get PTSD label and their rights are taken away from them.
If you really care so much about the military, ask yourself how much do you really know about these and similar issures - before you start shooting your mouth off about someone "disrespecing the military".
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I must also add, that I am alive because of the military (a soldier). If it wasn't for them (him/her), I would be dead...yay for U! I don't know every detail because most of it was classified of course, but I do know that they saved my life when I was a young child. Where I was born, there was a small crisis/dispute and innocent people were being killed...my biological parents were killed and I was put into an orphanage. If more people would understand truth and peace (and that we're all dummies and we need to focus on getting smarter and wiser) , I would be living with my real parents, but sadly, things didn't go that way, but I am content with what was given to me.
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So you spit at and flip off any soldier you see in the street? You call them lapdogs and servants to the Devil? You see a uniform and you laugh and call them idiots and puppets? If you think that way, you should pity them. What makes the military "puppets" different from us? We follow laws and rules that are made by those same politicians. We support and "eat off of" those corporations. We elect those corrupt politicians to their government positions. We are all the idiots, soldiers and us. I understand from what you say, that you are a pacifist. I respect that opinion/side. I hope for all nonsense to end, but it will take a long time, and there are corrupt and evil people in the government that are self-serving and selfish. The problem is, is that we don't know until too late. They wear their masks: "...in the end all you are, are blood thirsty animals no different than us! You hide you filthy nature behind those respectable masks!..." -Benedetto from Count of Monte Cristo (Gankutsuou). I think this matches your opinion and thoughts. I must say, that you hurt my feelings a bit. My whole entire family, extended and past, is in the military, and on October of this year, I might be too. I'ts just that I have grown up living on military bases and such (but my Dad's retired now) I have always respected those who go and die on unfamiliar grounds. I am in a military auxiliary right now, and we do SAR and other things like that, but of course in our nation (we don't get deployed. If I did I would be dead...because to you...and others...I'm dumb...I do admit I have my moments ). Still, your opinion is that of many other people in the world who want peace and truth.
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Well, ad hominem attacks and building straw men (i.e. putting words in my mouth) isn't going to get you very far in wasting my time.
You sound like you are desperately trying to convince yourself about something, not me.
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From what you say, American Politicians have started everything that they blame terrorists for. You say that they started everything to get their way or "see the sights"...like Nero. If you hate American Politicians so much, why don't you become a missileer and blow everyone up? (I know you won't because you hate the military soooo much) Then, why don't you set fire to all the gas stations near the Capitol and put bombs in every car headed that way? Just so you can kill all the politicians and start over again with you as President. Who would be corrupt politician(s) now? To begin with, it's our fault they are there. Like I said before, We elect them and put them there. Sure you can say ballots are faked and the U.S Cabinet is twisted (which would mean the Senate is too), but those people running have "fans" and followers. People that believe in them, if that politician becomes corrupt, then the "fans" aren't going to be thought of highly. When you vote do you just write the word "Die" all over it and throw it in the bucket? Or do you just refuse to vote? Of course you don't have to vote, but as a citizen of America, it is considered your duty (to stand in a crowded stuffy room filling out a piece of paper with a bunch of boxes and squares) Now like you said in your reply: "desperately trying to convince myself about something". I know it might have sounded that way, but I put that there to show that I am not an "all-out-living/loving-war" person. If I was, I wouldn't be here. I'd be employed or training my heart out to get there. (Military Video Games portray certain characters as that way) You can say that the Government purposely makes us enlist to pull our strings, if that is true, then feel free to break yours, but some people won't. (Now my ideas about killing the politicians aren't a true intention. Gas stations are too far to have much an impact, and only "trusted" people can be missileers.)
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I can shoot a gun, drive a tank, I use 24 hour time, speak with special codes and use morse, I can defuse a bomb and tell you every aspect of the gun I use, but basic addition, fuck me
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Absolutely love!! You've captured an extraordinary moment!!!
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If you're too blind to see past the uniform then try to see this for what it is: It's harmless, it's goodwill, it's good intentions by these men that are meaningful and very human of them. The child's smile is priceless. If you can't see for bias then you can't see at all.
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I appreciate your words toward the little troll. Thank you.
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Probably my favorite photo of all time! This is priceless!
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Nice to see the other side of soldiering.
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cheater cheater pumpkin eater. keep you eyes on your own paper 
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Puts a smile on my face, that's for sure!
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yankee! go home XD
pack your shit and get out of independent countrys. close your dirty drug dealing military bases!
play your dirty war games with China and Russia somewhere else !
yankee! go home XD
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*Sigh* Why must immature filth like you plague our Internet?
Also, are you enjoying your American Internet?
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oh american internet - very good thank you. (also russian, european and other)
american military base - absolutely no good. murderers rapists drug addicts
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The Internet was made by yours truly, the United States.
I pity you friend, you have fallen victim to idiotic propaganda.
Now tell me, where did you hear that the U.S. Military were "Murdering Raping Drug addicts"?
Let me guess......The Forums.....
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Internet wasnt made by the US, read a little bit more if thats what they teach you, it wasnt just one group of people that suddenly created internet, and at the end, it was actually a british person who marked the beginning of www.
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Look up Jennifer Laude.
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no.... why forums?
pity yourself. we are all the victims of propaganda. but sometimes your propaganda aims to destroy the country that has oil or which is good for drug traffic.
Murdering Raping Drug addicts american soldiers in Kyrgyzstan. airport Manas. i am sure you don't even know where it is
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I literally, could not understand a word of that.
So, our "propaganda aims to destroy our country which has oil or which is good for drug traffic".
Look kid, if you are going to argue with me. Learn to fucking type, you pathetic excuse for a Human being.
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what is so hard to understand? why can't you understand? american propaganda aims to destroy oil rich countrys.
all you can do is typing insults safe behind your keyboard.
i dislike your government and the followers of american government global policy.
but i don't have the height for american people. plenty of them share the views of mohammad ali and numerous ex marines (charles dyer, jon michael turner). their point of view is "why should i go and kill or get killed overseas for NOTHING?"
american democracy happened to Iraq? no. american democracy happened to Afghanistan? no.
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What's not to understand? Re read what you typed.
Then compare it to mine....You'll find the results to be rather.....Disturbing...
Kid, I'd say all of this to your face, but this blasted screen keeps me from doing that.
Do you really think we are over there for NOTHING?
Here, lemme take you on a trip down memory lane...
Remember the events of September 11th, 2001?
Yeah....That's why we completely fucked your lands up...
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... And due to that same 9/11... We have a wonder named 'The patriot act' and an invasive NSA...
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you don't have the proof that afghan tribes attacked your people in those buildings. but you have got a lot of evidence and research made by american demolition experts. those buildings were demolished (by the us government).
you have numerous interviews and discussions about 'september 11 2001' on the internet. but you don't listen to them because it's easyer for you to know only one word '9/11'.
us government attacked Afghanistan to take controle over the drug traffic there and benefit from it. in order to make americans go to Afghanistan, the US Government created 1)a boogie man osama bin laden 2) organized 9/11.
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How about you do some fucking research before continuing this debate?
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you call this debate, Mr. Debater?
all arguments i've ever learned from you were like "you go fucking do this do that....pathetic and etc."
and it is you who needs to do some fucking research.
how many languages do you know apart from english?
what sources of information can you digest apart from official ones in english?
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Hey asshole if you have nothing better to post dont post at all save your political shit for Fox news
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I miss PHIBLEX.. though i hear camp Clark is no longer in the picture 
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This is too cute! Such a great picture!
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I thank them all from the bottom of my heart. This picture restores my faith in humanity.
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j'aime beaucoup, l'humour est bien trouvé. ^^
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This is the kind of person I want to be.
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