“This”:http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/003253.html has been circulating the net and the mess for years. Somebody recently sent it to me again so I thought I would share it.
Some of my favourites include:
* Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.
* Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
* Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
* Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
* Have a plan.
* Have a back-up plan, because the first one won’t work.
* Watch their hands. Hands kill. In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them.
* Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
* Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a “4.”
Read “the entire list”:http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/003253.html.
Then of course there are the Navy Rules for Gun fighting:
# Go to Sea
# Send the Marines
# Drink Coffee
;)
About Younghusband
Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and
Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game.
"Younghusband" is a Canadian who has spent a number of years bouncing back and forth between his home country and Japan. Fluent in Japanese and English with experience in numerous other languages from Spanish to Georgian, Younghusband has travelled throughout Asia. He graduated with an MA from the War Studies Department at the
Royal Military College of Canada, where he focussed on the Japanese oil industry and energy security issues. He has recently returned to Canada from Japan, and is working in the technology sector.
What does Eddie have to say about that? =)
I am waiting anxiously to find out! Tee-hee!
I particularly liked #23:
Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
Schlock Mercenary rule #37–There is no “overkill”. There is only “open fire” and “I need to reload.
Of course, for us weenies who served in the Air Farce, it was send the ossifers off to fight (er…drop bombs or something from 40K feet) while we surfed the net from our air conditioned offices. Except for those knuckledragging wrenchturner types. -cp
Sounds like Captain Jack Sparrow.
Add one more to that list (from an Army Dog)
“When the going gets tough- the tough go cyclic.”
;)
“”Everyone has a plan, ’til they get hit.”
-Mike Tyson
;)
I have seen the Navy plan in action and it is very effective.
I just hope there are no budget concerns because coffee is not any getting cheaper.
Ya’ know, I’ve seen the list a dozen times. But EVERY Marine can read it over and over again and not get tired of it!