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Grunts
By Slab
Blackfive brings us a great video about the guys truly on the pointy end, the grunts of Golf Co 2d Battalion 5th Marines. As a proud Marine grunt myself, I was stoked to see a video about these guys.
From Sgt Deboard, who provided the video:
Attached is a great multimedia presentation put together by Cpl. Ryan Blaich about Marines with G/2/5 operationally attached to 2/7, RCT-6. Thought you may be interested in putting it up on your site. Motivating stuff. All about the real workhorses out here -- the grunts, warfighters moving to contact.
I've sometimes been accused of being a "grunt snob", but that's ok by me. The gunslingers you see in the video are the Marine Corps' raison d’être, no matter what anyone else tries to tell you different.
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Hell yes! So much to say here. One completely out-of-the-blue observation-- did you see the Surefire mounted on the forerail of the SAW? Also, an important historical note-- the CO of 2/5 was the XO of Det One, the first Marine unit to serve with SOCOM; they deployed to Iraq with NSW Sqdn 1 in 2004. He led the Marine Task Unit, dubbed "Raider." (Re Det One, their story will be told, trust me.)
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