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Terminal Lance creator sends ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ to commandant

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By on Battle Rattle, Terminal Lance, The blogosphere, The CMC

It’s on now. If you’re on Facebook and don’t live underneath a rock, you’ve probably heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge fad sweeping the nation. It reportedly started in Boston with former Boston College baseball star Peter Frates, who was diagnosed with the degenerative disease ALS in 2012. The concept is simple: if you’re challenged, you have 24 hours to film yourself dumping ice water on your head for ALS awareness, or donate $100 to ALS research. Or, preferably, both. Then you get to challenge another handful of people. Well, this morning Maximilian Uriarte, creator of the wildly popular web…

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Tattoos and Terminal Lance: the 5 most surprising things we learned from the commandant’s live Q&A

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By on Commandant, Pop culture, Rumors, Special operations, The blogosphere, The CMC

The commandant and sergeant major of the Marine Corps took to Facebook last Friday afternoon, answering nearly 30 candid questions from the Marine Corps community in the space of an hour as part of his ongoing “Reawakening” effort to engage directly with enlisted Marines. According to site administrators on the official Marines Facebook page, some 900 questions and comments rolled in during the hour Gen. Jim Amos and Sgt. Maj. Mike Barrett were online. While Amos addressed a number of popular themes, such as women in combat arms roles, recruiting, and sexual assault prevention, he also revealed some surprising facts…

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Behind the Cover: Busted for ‘Sammich’ Jokes

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By on Behind the Cover, Pop culture, Rumors, The blogosphere

A female Marine finds photos from her personal Facebook account re-posted on a Marine humor page and subjected to derogatory and sexual comments. This happens not once, but again and again, and it doesn’t stay online:  she gets honked and yelled at in the street when she’s walking near her base, and her friends tell her she’s developed a reputation as a “barracks mattress,” because Marines think that if she gets posted to these sites,  she must be a slut. On Facebook pages like “Just The Tip, Of The Spear,” and others, most users say there’s no problem with what…

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Video: Troops remove unexploded RPG from Marine’s leg in Afghanistan

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By on Afghanistan, Infantry, The blogosphere

Sometimes, it takes months for U.S. troops to talk publicly about their own heroism. Take the case of Cpl. Winder Perez, for example. The 22-year-old Marine sustained a life-threatening wound from a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan on Jan. 12, but survived when the ordnance didn’t explode. His life still hung in the balance, though — the wounds were serious, and the possibility of the RPG exploding while embedded in him remained. That’s the story the military shared in a news release it produced last week. It credited an New Mexico National Guard helicopter crew with risking their lives to rush…

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