Anyone else think its strange that Neil Armstrong dies the same week Lance Armstrong lost his medals
So kind of anti-Armstrong patriarchy group out there

Doesn’t their green camoflauge blend right in with the grey battleship…..

Doesn’t their green camoflauge blend right in with the grey battleship…..?

If they want camouflage in Dublin, they should try Burberry and Adidas

Good pic Dan. Cheers.

This one is only a baby…

In the navy….

Their camo is for being on land not on a boat! Idiot

Why? Honest question.

I believe it was reported last summer when their submarine was docked in Dublin.

United States of Attackingothercountries

No one will… beacause they have a mini gun

Carlsberg don’t do idiots……….but if they did!

My tongue is firmly in my cheek guys.

Don’t be ridiculous…typically anti American nonsense

I don’t believe you Conor, I think you should be hung for your Anti-American stance, USA, USA, USA……

I was wondering why it was called a “mini-gun” when it seems to be anything but; wikipedia has clarified for me:

The “Mini” of the name is in comparison to designs that use a similar firing mechanism but larger shells, such as General Electric’s earlier 20 mm M61 Vulcan, and “gun” referencing the delineation between a cannon, that of a caliber higher than 20 millimeters—and gun—within certain ranges.

…so it should be called mini-cannon or big-gun, idieally. Doesn’t sound as cool I suppose.

Really, all 201,000 active members of the US Marine Corps have the exact same political views?

Ask them yourself. As they take the orders and not make the orders I’m sure you will be wasting your time. Let us know how you get on.

I doubt they have much views on anything, David. They’re people of very low intelligence who need other people to tell them what to do and what to think, every moment of their waking day, or else they’re doing something wrong.

Hence the military welcomes them with open arms.

@Ned Stark, how dare you call anyone who joined the Marines too incompetent to build their own future, some members of the Corps come from some of the poorest, most deprived parts of the states. They could have turned to crime or live on welfare for the rest of their lives but they desided that they wanted more then that for themselves and their families so they took the only option open to them and enlisted.
If you have a problem with the US blame its leaders not its armed forces, who given the choice, would rather not be sent into harm’s way.

“They could have turned to crime” – Surely murder is a crime?

“given the choice, would rather not be sent into harm’s way.” – Why join the army in the first place then?

Well they joined the Marine Corps, not the army, but I’d assume it would be for the same reason most people take a job, they need the money and as for the murder remark, murder is the unjustified killing of another, I think the other fella trying to kill you is a pretty good justification.
People throw around the word murder around too often when they talk about war, it totally degrades the meaning of the word when actions are taken that actually constitute murder.

Narrow minded comments from people who’s country never had to deal with the loss of their loved ones in far off lands. People join the military forces for various reasons, but to regard them as murderers is ridiculous.

Ask them yourself Dermot in fact tip on down there to the McHenry and ask those three guys in the pictures… I’m sure they’ll give you some form of answer

I think the answer would sound something line this …. Duh?

Vincent, a number of the Irish Defence Forces have returned to these shores in boxes while serving abroad on peacekeeping missions.

As for the level of intelligence of the US armed forces, many of the people serving there are those who are trying to go to third level education but cannot afford to do so. The US military contributes generously towards that and your spot is held for when you return from duty. Plenty of our best and brightest would do the same if the IDF paid full tuition fees. So to say they are all mindless idiotic drones is in itself a mindless idiotic comment.

I’d say they inspect the big gun on the deck, from a distance.

Sorry I didn’t realise this was your country. ;-) What are you going to do to get us out of the mess we are in.

^^^ What he said!! ^^^

The founder of the us navy was John Barry, a proud Wexford man.
Welcome back lads.
Anyway, get them out yourself, they have a MINIGUN!!!

Sounds like it would be a better idea to get you out

Hi Ned,
The comment wasn’t deleted because of saying somebody was/wasn’t welcome. You made other remarks that, given a number of individuals are identified in the above images, could be potentially libellous and were deleted as per our comments policy.
Susan

Ned why not go down and protest if it bothers you that much.

Ah so positive comments only?

What a site of balance and fairness. No wonder it’s so well regarded :)

And why adopt the name of a character created by a proud American?

Ha Ned on his high horse got owned.

Everyone I know with a smartphone uses the journal.ie, so yeah Ned, it is well regarded!! Valid point!

Jesus Ned, they are just trying to protect themselves from a lawsuit. Relax there mate. Other forums have to adopt the same policy. Grow up.

Ned, you have shown your ignorance.

Yeah I’m sure the soldiers involves are going to read this article, it’s comments and then take offence to generalised and indirect comments and go talk to their lawyer. Really credible threat there.

Chris, I would only it might attract the illegal US drones over here and kill a bunch of innocent people as they do every day elsewhere.

Nuffsaid, that’s not really reflective of anything to be honest. The most read “news” source in the world is the daily mail website and yet it’s journalism isn’t well regarded by, well, anyone with a decently functioning brain.

It doesn’t matter who the comment is about. At the end of the day it could be potentially libellous and thus it was deleted. Not that difficult to comprehend.

You’re complaining about journalistic standards yet you make the classic mistake of calling members of the USMC soldiers, look if you don’t like the Journel.ie, I thinks Pars has a website that would more to your taste.

@Steve If you don’t like the policy or the practice, don’t use the site. (quite simple)

Any hint of rationality sends the staff flying for the delete button.

If it does not suit the agenda, which is posting articles that amount to “look everyone, look what the government are doing today!” and getting the resident anti–everything crew riled up from the start of the day until they end, it gets binned.

Anti–government articles and stuff nicked off Reddit from days ago.

It is the Boards.ie After Hours of the Irish media.

Ned: the arbiter of “rationality”. Classic!