The oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution demands unwavering commitment to its principles, yet the Trump administration repeatedly undermined fundamental rights, particularly those protected by the First, Fourth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Trump’s attacks on the press as "the enemy of the people" and his threats against critics eroded First Amendment protections for free speech, while his calls to violently suppress protests weakened the right to peaceful assembly. His administration aggressive immigration enforcement, including warrantless searches and invasive surveillance, violated the Fourth Amendment’s safeguards against unreasonable government intrusion. By pressuring states to overturn election results and interfering in local governance, he disregard the Tenth Amendment’s respect for state sovereignty. Most alarmingly, his efforts to delegitimize elections, spread voter fraud myths, and endorse discriminatory policies violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantees of equal protection and due process. Together, these actions revealed a patter of constitutional disregard, threatening the very foundations of American democracy.

It is our duty to disobey orders that flout these amendments. It is our commanders duty to do the same.

Infantry?

Hot topic, but I’m looking to see what people think. With the policy going into place soon (being stopped in federal court now right now), trans Marines who are currently serving are going to be seperated. There is a waiver, but the waiver is basically “if you have never been outwardly trans, you may be eligible for a waiver” so it’s pretty nonexistent.

The executive orders / memos cite that trans people lack the honor, discipline, humility expected of a service member. To me, that’s pretty fucked up, trans people who earned their EGA are being, in essence, robbed of it because the President says they lack these traits by the very nature that they are trans.

I’m not looking to hear arguments about costs to taxpayers for medical expenses, I feel like that’s a separate issue that the policies aren’t even focusing on. What do y’all think of this?

why’d they send pogs to the border? I feel like a grunt with 4 vapes, 6 cans of zyns, recently divorced, Humvee with a 50 cal, would send a better message to the cartels tbh.

I felt like watching the video regarding the Marines down there felt as if I was watching a Mil-Sim & watching 30ish Marines leave there M4’s on packs…

Personal Opinion: I feel like this is just a personal opinion but I do feel like active should stay committed towards stuff regarding overseas while as the Reserves take things that are personally within the jurisdiction of the United States such as the border… I just feel like every year every reserve unit puts so much money together for these 2 week AT’s in different countries yet never utilized when needed.

This story has a link to another report "Belarus Training Migrants to Fight Europe's Border Guards." Put the two together and it looks like a pattern may be revealing itself.

Russia sabotages weapons factories across Europe

Russia has launched a fresh wave of attacks on European armaments factories under the guise of plausible deniability, according to Western intelligence sources.

The Kremlin is recruiting local gang members to sabotage defence manufacturers to test Nato’s resolve.

The attacks appear carefully calculated to fall just short of triggering Article 5, Nato’s mutual defence clause, intelligence officials believe.

This week, Latvia detained three of its own nationals on suspicion of an arson attack against a drone manufacturer in neighbouring Estonia.

A building belonging to Milrem Robotics, a Tallinn-based firm that supplies weapons to Ukraine, was set ablaze on Aug 15.

The firm is one of two foreign suppliers of unmanned ground vehicles to Kyiv’s armed forces.

Kristen Michal, Estonia’s prime minister, said investigators were looking into whether it was an act of sabotage and if Russia had been involved.

The Milrem arson attack fits into a broader pattern of suspected or confirmed sabotage against Ukraine’s military supply chains across Nato territory.

A Nato official added: “In recent years, Russia has accelerated its destabilisation campaigns against Allies through cyber attacks, assassination attempts and acts of sabotage.”

What has become known as the Kremlin’s “hybrid war”, other officials argue, is aimed at escalating tensions between Nato’s allies and deterring support for Ukraine.

Since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 there has been a steady stream of unexplained attacks across Europe.

As well as the Estonian arson incident, there have been explosions at major arms manufacturers in Italy and Bulgaria this month alone.

For the love of all things good and holy, please tilt your cover back. It looks absolutely ridiculous when the top is level with the ground. The Marine Corps doesn't send chefs out to war.

On the right = Chef Skinner/tornado

In the middle = Awesomeness

Edit: what I mean to say is that if the top of your cover is level with the ground while the brim is level, tilt it back. There was clearly a manufacturing defect. If the top leans back already while the brim is level, great!

I know I'll get shit for this, but good evening everyone, I'm a reservist who could not give a shit anymore and want out. I'm sick and tired of wasting 400 miles of gas every drill "weekend"—weekend my ass, it's almost always four days—to just fucking field day and SL-3, and get paid mid $200s. When instead, I can make nearly six times more doing my civilian job those days, which I enjoy. I'm fixated on leaving. Now how I go about leaving is where I'm unsure. Should I just turn in my gear one random day then go UA? Get a neck tattoo and start the process for seperation? And yes, I already know I'm a POS and bitch made for not even being able to commit to a contract I signed. Sorry, and thanks.

You know it's funny lol.

Every Marine a rifleman... only a Rifleman!

From 04. I signed this bullshit. Found it in a dusty file cabinet. This was signed during ROTC prior to comission. The language is absolutely absurd. I love how they carved out "queen for a day" as an option. "Hey I'm straight I just made a mistake and did it once, but I don't have a propensity to do it again." So god damn absurd. As a gay guy I can tell you I remember the fear around this, looking back it's so god damn bigoted. The majority of guys serving supported it, I still remember people threatening to not re-up due to it's abolishment. That homophobia was pretty serious. Very open. Most were quiet, the nasty ones were awful. The other gays serving would talk abut the "hunters" who bragged about getting people ousted. The bad old days.

Ok so, to add context, I come from prior foreign service in the Colombian Marines. Now, I've always wanted to be a US Marine, and I finally joined this year. In Colombia, we practically idolize the US Marine Corps in every aspect because we were practically trained by them as we got our doctrine from them. But something that shocked me, as I joined in peace time, is that many Marines from war time are saying that some time ago, all this shit with PFT & CFT wasn't fucking over a lot of members in the force that actually want to be here. And back then, it was all about becoming big and being able to carry and use a weapon. But now everything is about looking good either on paper or in uniform. Everything is about points and grades. What happened to the best fighting force in the planet? Can someone give me some insight or their opinion on this subject?

When I went through in 2003 and from what I’ve always known was 1st was yellow, 2nd is red, 3rd is blue and 4th was maroon.

I don’t like it.

Hegseth fix this.

I know the nods here don’t like us to discuss politics, but I like to discuss politics, and I want to discuss them with other Marines. I feel very isolated sometimes, and I just want to know what other Devils think about it all. Anyway, here it is.

How come in boot camp like a few days before swim qual, they don't just ask for recruits who don't know how to swim, and instead of doing nothing for hours, they just go over a few days early and have some MCWIS or whoever calmly teach them at whatever speeds.

Cause yeah yeah, we're amphibious, okay motherfucker but when was the last amphibious assault?Like the '70s, and none of them were random POGs with a contract desk job. And if we went to WW3 or something, then I think they could squeeze in time to give you an hour or 2 in a pool beforehand assuming flotation devices cease to exist.

Some recruit might lie, and pretend they don't know how so they can swirl around the water of the pool instead of a clothes dryer for a few hours, but who cares.

Like if this was a special forces indoc of course they should show up with the required skills. But in the case that the Marine Corps is genuinely trying to spit out the highest numbered of qualified new Marines, why not? Some people have just never done that shit before.

Like one drill instructor took us out and made us repeat 'Evil Echo Empire' to a brick wall for 30 minutes with the threat of being dropped, as if that sounder lamer than our Buttfuck Bravo but anyway, it only took me like 7 minutes of half drowning to figure it out at swim qual. Like I coulda ran there and back in less time and saved the experience of being slowly reeled in on the little flotation ring while dudes gathered and screamed at me.

And I was like what did I do wrong, and they kindly explained apparently you weren't supposed to grab onto the guy saving you from drowning, and attempt to hoist yourself up by pogo-ing off his shoulders and I honestly don't even remember doing that, but like hey I've never been dunked into the water like that and I wasn't ready take one. I guess I learned something that day though. I learned I woulda drowned that man for my sake, with 10 witnesses, but I didn't--he won the fight, so I'm not even sorry.

I climbed out with giant soggy clown boots on and was told to do it again, eventually barely making it on the third time, but also almost drowning trying to get back to the side to eek out the win since the other events are freebies.

I was told, "A Marine never lies.." and they promised they weren't going to push me, but they just did though. I wasn't freezing up or anything, I was just following orders, look up, look down, cross chest, and he immediately shoved me off the plank like it was personal.

I'm sorry I'm a man who lived on land and breathes air who has the wherewithal to avoid completely submerging himself in deep water just like if I lived right by space I wouldn't poke my head up there for fun.

But to further my argument I think it's genuinely racist. It was honestly just me and 5 black kids getting pushed into a pool until we could swim out of it, and I learned first, who knows what else coulda gone down there afterwards.

Excuse me sir can i just walk over there and stand with the other guys who don't know how to swim, and he's like what do mean you don't know how to blow up your pants like a balloon and tie them round your neck while treading water? what state are you from? you know were amphibians right?

As I roll my sleeves for the last week of the year, I reflect on how much I hate rolling sleeves...

The time it takes to get them done added up throughout the year makes it a huge waste of time. I'm pretty sure I have a permanent farmers tan from rolled up sleeves, it is in fact healthier to be sleeves down in the sun to minimize exposure to sun. Marines will balk about tradition, about being different from the other branches, and about showing the guns. Other branches do roll sleeves, although in general look like shit. We will have junior Marines that will have to go to medical for cutting off circulation from too tight sleeves, senior leadership rolls usually look like shit, and Marines with big ass arms have to suffer or modify their shit to make it work. 2012-2014 proved it worked.

If we did go back to sleeves down year around, we could turn the salty Marine shit baggery by cuffing or wizard sleeves, so we can still maintain that...

Boyfriend brought this one up while we were sitting at the VA and I was in with a few who did identify as such but since we all used last names, it didn't matter much to them but like what about an officer?

Would it be Sa'am?

Not just for our beloved corps, but all across the military. Would significantly cut down on disciplinary problems, underage drinking wouldn’t be a problem, and this would give these kids time to grow up a little, and have a better idea of military life is really something they want to pursue. All the kids that get in trouble are 18 and 19 year olds, who still think they’re in high school.

what happened. why would they do this

Its not POG (persons other than grunts). Its Pogue, as in "pogey bait." Pogey is WWII slang for a homosexual. Most of you have probably read the book Battle Cry. The unit described therein is the "Pogey bait 6th" of Belleau Wood fame. Pogey bait is candy, the candy being the bait, so to speak.

Granted, I'm fighting a losing battle. Even the Washington Post's Military reporters use the term POG. But still, I'm willing to absolutely die on this hill.

Thoughts? Any amateur (or professional) historians care to weigh in?

Edited to clarify that a Pogue is a Pogue, but “pogey bait” is candy