Coming from a future 'brother in arms' (hopefully receive a commission in 08)... Although he is a fellow service man, but a foe; I think he said it well and this sums it up, (sorry had to make it politically correct): "The man [or woman] who will go where his colors go without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle or a mountain range, and who will suffer and die; in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he [or she] has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He [or she] is the stuff of which legends are made. His [or her] pride is his colors and his regiment, his [or her] training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his [or her] obedience is to his orders. As a legionnaire, he [or she] held the gates of civilization for the classical world...today he [or she] is called United States Marine." LTCOL Fehrenbach, United States Army, in 'This Kind of War' ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================