NCO CORPS
State of The SGM SFMC January 2018 Greetings, Marines!Let’s dust off the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO club where the remains of the cup of coffee and cinnamon roll I left after our last visit have apparently developed a civilization all their own that’s just short […]
State of the NCO Corps December 2015 Greetings Marines! Stamp the snow off your boots and come on over to the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO club, where the coffee may occasionally taste like burnt hydraulic fluid, but at least it’s always hot, and the stockings […]
State of the NCO Corps October-November 2015 Greetings Marines! Crowd on in to the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO Club, where what you call “snowmen” we call “biodegradable reactive targets” and the sign by the big bowl of leftover Halloween candy at the end of the […]
State of the NCO Corps September 2015 Greetings Marines! As usual, I’m in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO Club, where we could really use a big shovel or maybe even a Combat Engineering Vehicle to clean up the “fertilizer” that stacks up during some of […]
State of the NCO Corps August 2015 Greetings Marines! Have a seat in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO Club, where EOD and Hazmat teams are helping with the cleanup for our annual “Pity Party” for those who couldn’t attend IC/IM, and we’d really appreciate your […]
State of the NCO Corps July 2015 State of the NCO Corps July 2015 Greetings Marines! As we head over to the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO Club, please note that despite the weather and the rather difficult intervening terrain, it still doesn’t qualify you for […]
State of the NCO Corps June 2015 Greetings Marines! Please join me in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO Club, where the air conditioning unit sometimes struggles to keep up with all the hot air from those “No Sierra ” there I was stories, and the […]
State of the NCO Corps May 2015 Greetings Marines! Please join me again in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO Club, where we’re preparing for mosquito season in the usual fashion (20-liter jerrycans of bug repellent and a couple of Gatling phaser AA set-ups) and the […]
State of the NCO Corps September 2014 Greetings Marines! I had this ready to go several days ago, but just before I posted it, I received the news of the untimely passing of LGN Gary “Tiny” Hollifield, and I decided to do what amounted to a substantial rewrite. So, with a bit of further ado, […]
State of the NCO Corps August 2014 Greetings Marines! Have a seat here in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO club, which finally re-opened after that “incident” during the IM “Pity Party” ( note to that Armor SGT – next time, ASK before deciding we needed […]