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Ex-NFL player graduates from Marines boot camp in San Diego

Pfc. Jeremy Staat, a former NFL defensive lineman who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the St. Louis Rams, graduated from the San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Friday.

Enlisting “is probably one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life,” Staat, 29, told The Associated Press after his graduation ceremony.

I agree, it was the best thing I ever did.

“I never felt right about making the money I was making,” Staat continued. “We pay millions of dollars to professional athletes and entertainers, yet we pay military service people pennies to a dollar, and they’re the ones risking their lives.”

So the rest of you overpaid, over worshiped media worshiped with the fancy cribs can kiss my butt, your nothing.

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Thanks to Google Alerts I found this today.

Why are Marines Training in US Neighborhoods?

The Toledo Blade is reporting that the US Marine Corps is again conducting urban warfare training exersizes in the streets of the USA, this time attacking downtown office buildings in Toledo, Ohio.

Are we to believe that this is to help them in their imperial mission overseas? That downtown office buildings in Ohio more closely resemble the terrain in Iraq than custom built taxpayer set pieces on the hundreds of bases around this country?

Or is it simply that they want the soldiers and citizens to get used to seeing each other in such circumstances?

Fear and paranoia are abounding…
Now Scott stay at least 30 yards away from the Marine with the gun!

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