Support a Marine sniper
The newsroom staff was discussing Tshirt slogans the other day. Yes, it was a slow day. We'd begun brainstorming themes for the annual Greater Lebanon Fourth of July celebration. Managing Editor George Piper is chairman of this year's parade (we can only assume he missed that particular meeting) and was looking for help. Any readers who are offended by the politically incorrect are warned to put down the newspaper and quietly back away. Ready? I am the most politically incorrect person in the newsroom. In our group, that's an honor. So, I got to go first. Sure you don't want to put down the paper? "I've got it," I said, "and I know where we can get the Tshirts. "How about 'infidel' for this year's theme?" This pleased other reporters and led to a brief but intensely hilarious period of inventing other phrases. Among those presentable in a family newspaper were: "Infidel and proud of it." "American by birth, infidel by baptism." "American by birth,
goedkope moncler, infidel by the grace of God." At that point, the conversation turned rude. But I was serious about the "Infidel" Tshirts. The Web site urges, "Make it official. They already consider you one anyway." The model is holding an AR15 one of those "black gun" "assault weapons" that fire only one round at a time, making their use in a forreal infantry assault when fullauto is required problematic at best and recklessly stupid at worst. My first option would always be to have a couple of batteries of 155mm artillery or several F15s or A10 Warthogs address the situation first. The company also has hats and Tshirts with the phrase "molon labe" (pronounced molone lahveh). The shirt has an AR15 silhouette. "Molon labe" means "come and take them," and is what the Spartan King Leonidas is reputed to have said to the Persians when they demanded the Greeks surrender their weapons before the Battle of Thermopylae. The Persians did take all the weapons but first had to kill all the Spartans. Lifelibertyetc. was also selling Tshirts to support a Marine sniper platoon in Iraq. They don't anymore because the Tshirt creator, Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Mendoza, had raised enough money to give all 26 members of his platoon an engraved, fixedblade Strider knife. Striders are in the RollsRoyce division of knives. But lifelibertyetc. said Mendoza was now selling the Tshirts directly. Mendoza won the Silver Star in April 2004, after an ambush. That incident also earned him the Purple Heart. He won another Purple Heart in August, when a grenade exploded next to him. One hundred percent of the profit went to Mendoza's unit, 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Scout Sniper Platoon. "As far as the fundraiser goes, I've met my goal," Mendoza said. "It was a small goal and more of a motivation and thanks to the snipers in my platoon." As the chief scout in the 2nd of the 8th's sniper platoon, Mendoza supervised 26 men, in sniper teams of four to six men,
moncler online, as well as one of his own. "I have been in a few units in my eight years,
moncler vrouwen, and had a few platoons that . grew to make great friends, but these guys were different," he said. "When I was injured last August," Mendoza said, "it really hit me that these boys cared for me." The DBL Strider knives included sheaths; with laser engraving to add 2/8 SS on the blades,
moncler nederland, the knives cost $300 each. "It was kind of like a welcome home, great job done, and a goodbye gift at the same time,
moncler sale nederland," Mendoza said. He's got some Tshirts left; he put up his own money to have the shirts printed. "All I'm doing now with the rest of the shirts is paying off the shirt bill," Mendoza said. Mendoza designed three shirts. One, "The Shadow Man,
moncler dames jassen," shows a sniper holding an M40 sniper rifle, a skull, and the slogan "kill one man, terrorize a thousand." If you don't understand that concept,
moncler outlet, you're really not smart enough to be reading this column. And you're not smart enough to realize why you aren't reading this column in Japanese or German. The second shirt, "Team Infidel," shows a twoman sniper team wearing ghillie suits camouflage material, with the phrase "Team Infidel" below them. The third shirt is a map of Iraq showing where the sniper platoon was deployed. As of last week, Mendoza had 11 small, 13 medium, four large, five extralarge, and 11 each XXL and XXXL of "The Shadow Man"; three medium, two large and four XXXL of "Team Infidel," and two small, two medium and four XXXL of the Operation Iraqi Freedom map. "Let me know if you can help get rid of these so I can pay off the bill that helped support our snipers in Iraq," Mendoza asked. Mendoza happily accepts PayPal. Marine Corps sniper. Semper fi. Rod Rose writes for The Lebanon (Ind.) Reporter. Washington St., Lebanon IN 46052 or at (765) 4824650 x 127.
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