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[B]I wear a big Globe and Anchor patch on my back....Marines always like to stop and bullshit about the Corps....and the patch draws 'em in. I have riding friends that were in the other branches and they're always amazed at how much Marines want to talk about their experience in the USMC. They could be a 19 year old Irag veteran, or some old jarhead from Iwo Jima. There really are no Ex-Marines.
[B]I'm very sure the same brotherhood exists for the other services...
Army guys mostly seem to prefer to forget they were ever in the Army - until they get old and have nothing better to do than sit at the VFW drinking $1 beers.
Navy guys... will usually admit they were a squid, speak positively, and briefly, about their experiences... but don't usually feel defined by it.
Air Force guys... well, they weren't ever really anything to begin with, right?
In my personal experience... I am probably most likely to talk military when I am around a Marine. Squids usually don't wear patches or display their service, so, I rarely know anyone is ex-Navy unless it comes up in conversation. I feel some connection with Marines because of my time on amphibs, all the exercises at Lejune, spending almost all of 1983 in Beirut ... many of my friends from back then were Marines. My bro-in-law was one of them. He's got Marine stuff all over his house. You'd be hard pressed to find a Navy thing in my house though (but there are some).
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For a while in my sport bike days, I rode with a cop who had a Goldwing, an FJ1100 and he was a motorcycle cop. Blasting the back roads at triple digit speed with him, I knew we'd never get a ticket.
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In my riding experience, its all about respect , which is earned . MM and MC differences vary , Good article by BFC founder Freddie Z .http://www.rcvsmc.net/id19.html
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Im sure he can too. what im saying is why do you have to stir things up about a world that you obviously dont belong to and never will? I thought this thread was about Marines MC, not whether or not I/we like/dislike you as a cop. Maybe just leave that one alone and get back to the topic at hand.
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My experience with LEO's is that you never know where you stand with them (I may not know 'where I stand' with a lot of people I interact with, but they don't have the power to officially f*ck my life up)....they're often very tolerant of their brothers' transgressions but not so much for those of the general public.....which I guess is 'part and parcel' of their job. I'm not bashing police...it's a job I wouldn't want.....an integral part of their responsibility is NOT minding their own business, and often that naturally places them at odds with civilians. I've never lived it, so I don't know how I'd handle it.
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My experience with LEO's is that you never know where you stand with them (I may not know 'where I stand' with a lot of people I interact with, but they don't have the power to officially f*ck my life up)....they're often very tolerant of their brothers' transgressions but not so much for those of the general public.....which I guess is 'part and parcel' of their job. I'm not bashing police...it's a job I wouldn't want.....an integral part of their responsibility is NOT minding their own business, and often that naturally places them at odds with civilians. I've never lived it, so I don't know how I'd handle it.
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"...they're often very tolerant of their brothers' transgressions..."
Keyhole
"...but not so much for those of the general public..."
If you are friends with a cop, at least with him, you are more like one of his brothers and less "the general public". Of course, that assumes your transgressions are relatively rare. If crime is a lifestyle for you, then... you probably wouldn't find a cop you'd want to be friends with (or one who'd want to be friends with you).
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I'm no saint, but I've led a pretty straight and narrow life. However, if things went south, I'm sure I'd rather have a friend around who thought first about the obligations of real brotherhood than job duty. But that's just me.