Category: Rifle

“Read ‘The Rifleman’s Creed’ – USMC Boot Camp Prayer”

Like The Alamo,

apple pie and July Fourth –

my best friend…rifle!*

 

*(of course not: I am my best friend (some of the time at least), and that fuss then on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas was an exercise in blind vanity and military stupidity exceeded only by that at Goliad, and like New Year’s midnight, July Fourth is an exercise often in cordite-fueled dangerous fake celebration, but tradition and rote recitation make it so true!)

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“Cleaning My Rifle”

“A tale of Parris Island”

Staff Sergeant Dean tells me my

parents will be here for graduation

tomorrow when I will

get the afternoon off,

just like everyone else,

but I get two hours extra,

so my shit better be shipshape

and he hands me my rifle

and says “best get started here,

Private.”

We turn in the war gear tonight.

 

 

 

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“Day 14 PISC – 1967”

“This Is My Rifle”

“This is my Rifle!…”

Even Airedales know by heart:

The Rifleman’s Creed!

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