11.10.08 TODAY’S LESSON IN BADASSERY
The Marine Corps, as you can tell from me jabbering on and on about it on a sports blog, is obsessed with its own culture and history. We read and share Medal of Honor citations to help remember the tradition we have to live up to. And nothing makes me want to run through a brick wall and head butt America’s enemies like 2ndLt John Bobo’s citation from Vietnam (I’ve written about this before, btw).
Before you make fun of his last name, read this:
When an exploding enemy mortar round severed Lieutenant Bobo’s right leg below the knee, he refused to be evacuated and insisted upon being placed in a firing position to cover the movement of the command group to a better location. With a web belt around his leg serving as tourniquet and with his leg jammed into the dirt to curtail the bleeding, he remained in this position and delivered devastating fire into the ranks of the enemy attempting to overrun the Marines. Lieutenant Bobo was mortally wounded while firing his weapon into the mainpoint of the enemy attack but… his tenacious stand enabled the command group to gain a protective position where it repulsed the enemy onslaught.
YAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! God DAMMIT that makes me want to jump out a fourth-floor window and punch through concrete. You soft-bodied blog-reading assholes better put down your cans of frosting and start getting your legs blown off and using belts as a tourniquets! Go. Do it now. Don’t come back to this blog until you’ve repelled a VC attack and you’re bleeding to death. Pussy.
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TODAY’S LESSON IN BADASSERY
My eyes are bloodshot, my brain is definitely bleeding and my ass feels like it got a sandpaper massage. Is that good enough?
Ive already fended off 2 VC attacks this month. The judge called it ‘housing discrimination’, but whatever…
i’m gonna go with john ripley as marine bad ass.
he passed away a week or so ago, but his story is awesome!
http://americans-at-war.com/videodetail.php?id=4
What better way to celebrate the Corps’ birthday. That, and eating a steak.
Can’t I just take the frosting with me?
Props to Spiderman for being there to apply the web belt.
Learned this morning that the idea of the Marines was hatched in a bar. I’ve started a lot of things in a bar, but nothing as badass as the Marines.
No one will ever get me to put down my can of frosting.
Not that I needed to be reminded of how much of a pussy I am, but thanks Matt.
/opens 2nd can of frosting
I’ve often repelled VD attacks.
Happy Birthday Marine!!!
Sincerely Sergeant Frazier
Proudly served in the best Military branch in the whole god damned world
And I feel like a complete and utter worthless bitch now.
Sure, people think this John Bobo guy is pretty great, but does anyone talk about the time when I was a kid that I threw snowballs at a streetlamp until the glass housing broke, and then in springtime some birds made a nest inside, and then the nest caught fire, and the fire department had to come, and I came outside and braved the flames to watch them put it out? I keep our country safe from invading birds, and does anyone give me medals? No man, they spit on me, and call me a sex offender.
The good news is that Bobo was eventually returned to Mr. Burns.
I had a tough time in Vietnam too. My hostel didn’t have air conditioning. Also, no parade when I came home.
another bad ass Marine, Chesty Puller. Mostly because of the name.
June 14th. America starts defending itself.
Nothing sexy about the Army, but it does keep rolling along.
congratulations, you’re psychotic
And this guy voted for Obama because he said McCain was a giant pussy.
Americans are pussies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Clarke
At that time, about 20 Germans, including two officers, counter-attacked. Clarke advanced, emptying his revolver into them. He then picked up two enemy rifles and fired those too. One of the officers attacked with a bayonet, wounding Clarke in the leg, but Clarke shot him dead. The Germans retreated, but Clarke pursued, shooting four more and capturing a fifth. In all, Clarke killed 19 of the enemy, capturing one.
Yeah, but those were Germans. It’s not like Germans are good at war or anything. In fact, they’re pretty much terrible at everything, except for war, which they’re pretty good at.
Hey, Bobo fought for my right to sit on my ass eating frosting from the can. It would be unpatriotic for me to stop.
Oh yeah Matt, how many legs have you lost again tough guy??? In all seriousness though (which is frowned upon on these blogs) thank you for your service!
So that’s it for the day then?
Also makes a nice Chow Hall
So . . . this guy got enlisted in 1965. Meaning that the war had been going on for 6 years. By then, most everyone with a brain had figured out that not only was the war immoral, it was also stupid. Sounds like bobo was a dodo.
p.s. the picture you swiped off of Wikipedia is backwards. Might want to go to the marine corps site to get the correct version.
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