Marine Raiders pt1

[usmarineraiders]

The U.S. Marine Raiders are amazing and truly inspirational! Just had our yearly reunion and need more of YOU to join us.

[ddtr12]

i have a question hell week is it orginally came from marine raiders right?

or udt/seal in 1943? i remember hell week started from marine raiders..

im just confused

[8digitPDX]

@ddtr12 Raider training in generally was primarily focused on actual challenges, not hazing. You complete the various challenges, you complete the program, so the theme of Hell Week, sort of. The raiders were recruiting hotheads, fighters, scrappers with enough discipline to take orders, not outright robots for brainwashing. Unit fatality rates were very high, so there were no illusions of what the game was. Not a hazing ritual for high status unit but training of selected people.

[Gurugriff1000]

Marine Raiders were the coolest

[XTdarkgainTX]

I admit Churchil was a smart ass

[AfflictionSkateboard]

@nachyocheese

These Marines are considered the first US Special Operations unit.

They were disbanded before the SEALS were even thought of...

[Hatchetforce]

Actually that isn't true. Conducting guerrilla raids is not in and of itself a qualifier for SOF. Strikes behind the lines do not alone constitute SOF. Although SOF shares a heritage from units traveling back to the days of Rogers Rangers the first true SOF unit was the OSS.

[TruthfulChristian]

US Army For The Win!!!!!!

[tedcopy12]

@AfflictionSkateboard

Anybody still around who remembers Joe (Irish) McDowell? He was first marine raider battalion in the pacific and was wounded on one of the islands. A great guy I knew from a brief stay boarding with my grandmom in 1952.

Tedcopy12

[sanjosesharks65]

@tedcopy12 wow he was a battalion all by himself? I guess these raiders really were something special

[lniedbal]

My father enlisted with a couple of hs high school buddies after the Japs hit Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and was at Quantico by January of '42 nd hitting the beach at Tulagi by August.  He was a BAR man in Company A of Edson's Raider's. He never talked about his days in the Marines even though his 4 sons loved playing army as we grew up in the 60's. He passed away in May of 2009.

[vampirepossum]

@lniedbal my dad was also a marine who fought on tulagi and many other little islands and other places. he was with the 2nd marine div. all the guy's from the greatest generation are my heroes. i did my time in south vietnam in 1967 and 1968. god bless all the vets.

[nitroxl85]

My Great Uncle PFC Ashley Hicks was a Marine Raider. He gave his life for this country on Makin.

[amramjose]

@nitroxl85 and @Iniedbal Sorry about both your losses, take pride in the fact your relatives made history, and helped the USMC defeat the Japanese in their own element. Semper Fi and G-d Bless.

[ThatDudeOz]

Oorah. Raiders did the job.

[NachYoCheesy1494]

Navy SEALs kick ass way more then some dude getting a lucky shit in the dark

[NachYoCheesy1494]

Shot not shit lol

[RvBFanatic]

Ouch. Into the back. Thats one kickass marine. xD U gotta do what u gotta do.

[matejkaaj]

what were those black uniforms, i can't find a pic of them anywhere else