Marine Scout Sniper

Published On: February 10, 2012|Categories: MRFF's Inbox|2 Comments on Marine Scout Sniper|

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Dear MRFF,

I, as a decorated Marine, who served from 1981-1985 and 2006-2009 wanted to chime in on this whining about the flag that the Marines displayed with the American flag. If your organization had anyone with even the slightest bit of knowledge about the Marine Corps Scout/Sniper program than there would be no doubt that the SS stood for just that, Scout Sniper.

I suspect that the attention that your bringing to the fore mentioned picture is more motivated by a liberal agenda than anything else. Mikey was in the Air Force, a non infantry unit and no doubt spent his time packing his chute.

You organization should put it’s efforts toward thanking those who are boots on the ground and do the real war fighting and killing the enemy instead of being anally retentive and criticizing the real war heroes.

(name withheld)

Dear (name withheld),

My name is Rick Baker, a long time supporter of and former volunteer at MRFF. They are up to their chin straps with correspondence over this marine thing so I’m pitching in to make sure everyone gets a response to their letters.

I’m a former Air Force Officer and Helicopter Rescue Pilot having served two combat tours in Vietnam. I mention this only to qualify my remarks and to say that I learned about Marines early on as I was tasked many times to insert and extract teams of special forces personnel into Laos and Cambodia. Green Beret, Seals, Air Force Commandos and my favorite, Marine Recon including sniper teams. So all of us Air Force guys weren’t “packing chutes.” We are not “whining’ either. One of the number of MRFF volunteers, Jim, is a Marine veteran who during his umpteenth close personal combat mission in Vietnam suffered severe wounds and lost a leg.

What you call a “Liberal agenda” is really an operating philosophy for MRFF. Religious freedom for all Armed Forces Members. The insensitivity of displaying the Nazi SS symbol demonstrated an ignorance beyond belief and was a low blow to the many Jews now serving in the military and to that great generation of Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, Marines, Coast Guard and others who fought and died in W.W.II. These were as much heroes as today’s fighting forces and should not be denigrated. One cannot honor Marine Scout Snipers by throwing our other heroes and long suffering Jewish Americans under the bus.

As for Mikey, he was an honor graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, a ten year veteran of the Air Force Judge Advocate’s Office, three years as White House Counsel to President Reagan and General Counsel to Ross Perot Industries prior to founding MRFF following harassment of his youngsters at the AFA.

MRFF supports all “boots on the ground” personnel and is now assisting over 26,300 client case complaints from our young men and women in the military and service academies who have found themselves in the grip of command centered and coercive Christian proselytizing.

Dwight, you would do well to make yourself familiar with MRFF and all of it’s good works for our Armed Forces. Without being fully informed your judgment of MRFF is premature and worthless.

Rick Baker

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  1. Stewart Nusbaumer February 10, 2012 at 11:53 am

    Dear Name Withheld,

    First, I heard little whining. Second, I heard a lot of conservatives voicing concern about that flag, so it wasn’t any so-liberal agenda. Maybe you need to get out more and engage with people outside your echo chamber. Finally, as a Vietnam vet, it seems to me this country has appropriate respect for our military. But respect and praise does not mean we can’t be critical of specific military members when wrong. Military personnel must, like everyone, be held accountable for their actions. Otherwise chaos — eg, Congress — is the result.

  2. Dave February 11, 2012 at 1:15 am

    Rick, you and Mikey would do well to familiarize yourselves with the Marine Corps and Marines and all their good works for this country. It was Mikey that rushed to judgement on the Scout Snipers calling for them to be “severely punished”. Like “Dwight” said, it means exactly “Scout Sniper”. Should they change it? Of course they should. Our Jewish counterparts have suffered enough. But don’t rush to judgement on the scout snipers and then complain when someone calls you out by telling him his opinion is worthless when you did the same.

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