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Another Whatziss - this one for the President.

By The Armorer on February 5, 2010 | | Comments (16) | TrackBacks (1)
Dear sir - since I'm guessing you would probably have an epic fail on a military whatziss, and, frankly, you damn well better be too busy to be hanging out here killing time,I thought I'd help you with a verbal construct that seems to be causing you some trouble.
 
This is a corpseman.


 
This is a corpsman.

A Navy Corpsman in Iwo Jima treats a Marine with a severe chest wound. Life giving plasmanate flows from the bottle attached to the M1 rifle at right. still image from USMC combat camera film  

 A Navy Corpsman in Iwo Jima treats a Marine with a severe chest wound. Life giving plasmanate flows from the bottle attached to the M1 rifle at right. still image from USMC combat camera film

Corpsmen try to *prevent* people from becoming corpsemen.

Just trying to help, sir.

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Corpsmen: here to help from Mudville Gazette on February 5, 2010 1:10 PM

I'm not going to bash anyone for mispronouncing an unfamiliar term - all of us have done it at one time or another, especially if trying to speak a foreign language or just discussing areas in which we have little experience or expertise. Since I've al... Read More

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By Carrie on February 5, 2010 9:11 AM
There is no hope.
 
By Fishmugger on February 5, 2010 9:22 AM
He said it twice in the clip...the man has no clue. Well, the typist could have made the mistake and he compounded it by not knowing what he was talking about. Is that redundant?
 
By JohnW on February 5, 2010 10:07 AM
He said it THREE times, Fishmugger.  Even worse!
 
By The Sniper on February 5, 2010 10:13 AM
He also misprounonced the Creole version of the United States. Amazing... he's a bilingual illiterate. I guess the teleprompter doesn't roll phonetics along with the test of the speech.
 
By Fishmugger on February 5, 2010 10:32 AM
OMG...how'd I miss that third one...I must pay more attention to his speeches. (with tongue firmly in cheek)
 
By AFSister on February 5, 2010 11:10 AM
I would just like to point out that I've had the same conversation (This is a "corpseman... this is a corpsman" when my boys and the next door neighbor started playing with little GI Joe guys called "US Corpsmen".  I still catch the neighbor calling them "corpsemen" from time to time. 

Of course... they are all about TEN YEARS OLD... not even close to our "adult" President's age.
 
By threadbndr on February 5, 2010 11:17 AM

The mind boggles - totally.   The is nobody in the entourage that has any military experience, I suppose - not even JROTC?   Of course not.

 
By JamesLee on February 5, 2010 11:44 AM
Of course not, threadbndr, you know the mentality of those type of people:  The U.S. Armed Forces is THE source of evil in the world.

Except of course, when they need them to save their own bacon.
 
By Valerie on February 5, 2010 2:29 PM
 He probably got that pronunciation from his mother.  And, no, it wasn't a mistake on her part.  She was of a that part of a generation that meant the insult.
 
By threadbndr on February 5, 2010 2:51 PM

I was just talking about the CIC to a young Marine I know.  He's a "dark green Marine" and says that he did vote for Obama and is now 'regretting' that choice.  "I should have voted as a Marine, not as a black man." 

He sounded so torn, so absolutely gutted by that realization, that I wanted to just hug the stuffing out of him.   Of course I've been know to hug random young recruits and cadets just because.   LOL.

 
By DL Sly on February 5, 2010 2:52 PM
I'd bet he knows how to say 'Peace Corps', 'Mercy Corps', and 'Green Corps' correctly.
And I'm not a bettin' persyn.
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By Yu-Ain Gonnano on February 5, 2010 4:02 PM
The[re] is nobody in the entourage that has any military experience, I suppose - not even JROTC? Of course not.

Wouldn't matter, no point in asking others when you already know everything.
 
By CJ on February 5, 2010 5:21 PM
When his military advisors are one-term former O-3s and political Generals, what did you expect? 
 
By MAJ Mike on February 5, 2010 6:07 PM
Guess he'll also need that conversation about the difference between sh*t and Shinola.

If it would've been Dan Quayle or G.W. Bush, the criminal-liberal-news-media would've been all over it and we'd be listening to it 24/7 for weeks.
 
By Gary Robinson on February 5, 2010 10:56 PM
This guy is supposed to be a Harvard-educated lawyer (Constitutional scholar, no less), a former Senator, suposedly The Smartest Man in the World, and he doesn't know how to pronounce "corpsman"? Good grief. And to think that we have three more years to go......
 
By Justthisguy on February 8, 2010 7:53 PM
Well, if you're a Korpsbruder of the Prez, you don't think much of those _other_ fraternities.