Marines ordered to surrender

[Forever_frost]

Their wallets.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/06/22/two-unarmed-men-mug-3-marines-mayor-wonders-how/

[The King]

“Marines have been given rules of engagement not to engage in any violence except to protect their lives,” said Marine Spokeswoman Capt Kate Vanden Bossche.

When asked if the Marines have essentially been told to hand over their wallets in St. Louis, rather than fight to protect their property, Vanden Bossche said: “If someone is in such dire need that they need to rob someone, I don’t think that’s a fight Marines need to get into.”


Sickening. The Capt sounds like one of those biotches with a hyphenated last name.

The Marines would likely have been sued successfully in our pussified legal system if they had defended themselves.

[Geor!]

Sucks but let me ask a question that's just begging to be answered. What the fuck happened to them during their initial training? Aren't they trained quite effectively in hand to hand combat?

[The King]

Sucks but let me ask a question that's just begging to be answered. What the fuck happened to them during their initial training? Aren't they trained quite effectively in hand to hand combat?

They probably are not legally allowed to use such training against U.S. citizens while on active enlistment.

[Forever_frost]

Us soldiers were never given such orders. We remove the threat

[SlowLX]

You act like it's a nation wide occurrence. If you do nothing but scour the local news around Pendleton you'll find plenty of stories of Marines beating the shit out of people, occasionally some of them being would be robbers. Just like if you scour any local news around an Army post you can find the same stories and quite a few stories where some genius soldier pissed off a biker and got the shit kicked out of em.

[Machx2]

Sucks but let me ask a question that's just begging to be answered. What the fuck happened to them during their initial training? Aren't they trained quite effectively in hand to hand combat?

Depends. Most its a know how to begin with. My cousin who is in the Marines couldn't fight his way out of a balloon. I can tell you first hand that the armys hand to hand is a joke. And I did have a combat mos so we got more than the average mos.

[BP]

My nephew regularly got his ass whipped by the locals in Hawaii when his squad went out drinking and got mouthy. 5 Marines without weapons will always lose to a bar full of locals that hate them.

[VETTKLR]

Local Hawaiians hate the Marine Corps?!? Well fuck Hawaii.

[Justa4Banger]

Local Hawaiians hate the Marine Corps?!? Well fuck Hawaii.

Probably more to do with the fact that Military soldiers in general have a history of doing dumb shit while drunk.. i know cause when i was active duty, i pulled a many of my friends out of bars to stop the madness...

Overseas locations see more dumb shit from soldiers as solders sometimes think they are above others...

Once again though it only takes a few to ruin it for everyone else..

[jw33]

One of my buddies got asked for his wallet in Jacksonville, NC back around '97. He was then shot at close range 3 times, but lived to tell about it.

[matts5.0]

It's not like all Marines are badasses, I knew plenty of what I would consider nerds. The basic Marine corps martial arts training you receive in bootcamp is not going to turn you into Billy bad ass. It's actually pretty weak, it does however get waaaay better as you progress in belt, it is an actuall discipline of martial arts.
The Hawaiians pretty much hate most white non islanders, not all, but most. It isn't just that they hate Marines, they will try and pick fights with you knowing that you will most likely back down because of the double trouble(civilian and military) you will get in.