2 US Marines on vacation stop a gunman on a Amsterdam-Paris train. 3 wounded in incident
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[QUOTE=TheTalon;48515727]The people who serve care. What other branch can you call yourself? You can't say I'm an Army. or I'm an Air Force. But you can say I'm a Marine[/QUOTE]
Actually all branches have their own designation, Airman, Soldier, Seaman, Guardsman, Marine.
It appears that the men werent Marines but one National Guardsman and an Airman
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48516731]It appears that the men werent Marines but one National Guardsman and an Airman[/QUOTE]
Puts the whole shebang about designating them properly into perspective.
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It happened in a Thalys train (Amsterdam-Paris liaison operated by France & Netherlands & Belgium rail)). A French citizen, a 28-year-old banker working in the Netherlands who asked to remain anonymous, went to the toilets, faced the armed terrorist (a 26-year-old Moroccan named Ayoub El Khazani boarded in Bruxelles (Belgium)), tried to stop him but he failed.
The man then shot his weapon and he hit a Franco-American passenger in the shoulder. He entered another wagon where 3 americans, Spc. Alek Skarlatos (Oregon Army National Guard assigned to an infantry unit in Roseburg), A1C Spencer Stone (US Air Force, Lajes Air base) and Anthony Sadler (Sacramento student), succeeded in stopping the terrorist whose weapon was jammed at the moment.
They were helped by Chris Norman, a 62-year-old British IT consultant. Chris Norman said another French citizen (a Thalys employee who was not working that day) assisted them in tying the terrorist up. Spencer Stone was injured with a cutter (neck & thumb)
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[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIhIMwhx7JU[/media]
[QUOTE=Arrows;48512824]
For those that say Guantanamo bay should be closed, many of those held have returned to terror: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_former_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees_alleged_to_have_returned_to_terrorism#2008_list[/url][/QUOTE]
pretty crazy how you torture terrorists in absurd inhumane ways and then they return to hating the people that did it
[QUOTE=overwatch pvt;48513266]It's not just like any other job though. You don't just get interviewed, told yes or no, and go. There's months of intense training you have go through to become any of those. Some people can't even make it and end up dropping out, and I'll be honest, I don't know if I'll make it through myself. For the guys and girls that do finish though, it's a sense of serious accomplishment. It's more than just a job to them.[/QUOTE]
You gotta tone down on that military respect thing man.
Jeez, you guys always overdo it with the respect for military dudes. Like yeah, they were heroes, but that whole patriotic feel for soldiers.
[QUOTE=_Axel;48516802]Puts the whole shebang about designating them properly into perspective.[/QUOTE]
guardsmen are lowkey treated like quasi-soldiers so this isn't surprising in the slightest
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