1LT Creech

Last Name, First Name: Blackburn, David
ArmA III Player ID: 76561198027407446
Age: 22
 
Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: Cpl (15th MEU) 0311 LAR Scout - 11 Months
 
Desired Duty:
Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?: I know all the boys, and i click well with them.
 
How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: Childs - Whilst a captain in the 15th
 
Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit:

Story filed on CNN during advance on Baghdad.
 
Where do they get young men like this?
 
Martin Savidge of CNN, embedded with the 1st Marines, was talking with 4 young Marines near his foxhole this morning live on CNN. He had been telling the story of how well the Marines had been looking out for and taking care of him since the war started. He went on to tell about the many hardships the Marines had endured since the war began and how they all look after one another. He turned to the four and said he had cleared it with their commanders and they could use his video phone to call home.
 
The 19 year old Marine next to him asked Martin if he would allow his Platoon Sergeant to use his call to call his pregnant wife back home whom he had not been able to talk to in three months.
A stunned Savidge who was visibly moved by the request shook his head and the young Marine ran off to get the sergeant.
Savidge recovered after a few seconds and turned back to the three young Marines still sitting with him and asked which one of them would like to call home first.  The Marine closest to him responded without a moments hesitation, " Sir, if is all the same to you we would like to call the parents of a buddy of ours, Lance Cpl Brian Buesing of Cedar Key, Florida who was killed on 3-23-03 near Nasiriya to see how they are doing".
At that Martin Savidge totally broke down and was unable to speak. All he could get out before signing off was "Where do they get young men like this?"
We don’t just get men like this.  They are the product of the training and esprit de corps of our nations most elite fighting force, and typical of most U.S. Marines.
 

 
 
 

All Personnel,
 
Part 1 of FTX 03-17.  Not much combat but good comms and team coordination and movements.
 
 

 
 
 
 

All Personnel,
 
Training Exercise.  Much of it in the fog!
 
Sgt Meek took lead of Valkyrie and did a very good job.
 
 
 
 
 

In a few weeks I'll be back in the Barkin' Bakken Oilfield, for now, enjoy this gem fro this winter. 
 

 
I've been roughneckin' a lot lately, a nice turn from the Pipe side of things, a nice paycheck too. Rigs are a lot of fun and a good sense of pride and work. Most of the full-time roughnecks are a close knit group too. I'll be stopping in TS now and then to say hi to everyone.

Off hand, this description sounds like the story of when the Marines were moving up to stop the German advance 30 miles from Paris in 1918. The biggest problem their little trucks had was fighting against the human wave of civilians and French soldiers clogging the roads as they were fleeing toward Paris.
No one thought the Germans could be stopped, including the French High Command, who ordered the US Marines up to the front. They frankly hoped at best, the Marines would slow the Germans down, but certainly did not believe anyone could stop them. The French and Allied HQ was already making plans for losing the war and trying to figure out what their best options would be.
When the Marines got to the front near Chatteau Thierry, they looked across 800 yards of open wheat fields at a heavily wooded forest; an old hunting preserve called "Belleau Wood".
 
The rest as they say, is History.

"DO OR DIE MEN" by George Smith
For those who don't know, my wife and I are getting our house ready to sell.  Part of the process includes packing away most of our books.  (My wife and I are readers).  I have a large number of books about Marines and the Marine Corps.
I decided it has been too long since I've given a history lesson about my beloved Corps and my Marine brothers, so I'm going to share some short stories taken from some of my books. 
It seems only appropriate that I should start with a story about the original Marine Raiders of WWII.  People today just can't conceive the intensity of the battles and horrific conditions the Marines fought under back then.  It's also hard to describe those men; how hard they were;  how intensely proud and committed they were; and, how much they loved their Corps.
THE SCENE
October 1942, the First Marine Division and some attached units, on Guadalcanal.  One of those attached units was the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.   General Vandegrift believed fresh Japanese troops would attack over the ridge of hills south of the airfield, Henderson Field.  The Marines lines were already stretched thin because they had to cover such a large perimeter.  Vandegrift ordered Col Merritt "Red Mike" Edson, to take his Raiders to the ridges and help defend that approach with elements from two other units, including the 7th Marines.   As expected, crack Japanese troops attacked over the ridge of hills that night and kept attacking until near sunrise.      
Pg 119
"Another Navy Cross winner that night was little Edward Ahrens of Alpha Company.  Only five foot seven, and 130 pounds, PFC Ahrens was a whiz with a BAR.  At about 0300, Ahrens spotted a group of men, led by what appeared to be an officer, approaching his foxhole.  He couldn't tell they were Japanese until they were almost on top of him.  Although shot twice and bayoneted several times, Ahrens managed to kill the Japanese lieutenant, a sergeant and several others with his BAR before he fell seriously wounded back into his foxhole.  He was found the next morning by Major Walt, who was inspecting his lines.
"As I came upon his position that morning he was slumped down in one corner of the foxhole covered with blood from head to foot," Walt said.  "In the foxhole with him were two dead Japs, one a lieutenant and the other a sergeant.  There were eleven more dead Japs on the ground in front of his position."
"As the corpsman was administering morphine, Ahrens held a Jap sword up to me and said, "Major, here's a souvenir for you.  Those yellow bastards tried to come over me last night.  I guess they didn't know I was a Marine."
 
That thin line of Marines held that night, and again one of the best infantry units in the Japanese army was decimated.

All Personnel,
 
Part 2, FTX 02-17.
 
As you who were there know, Arma stopped working on me so much of the exciting conclusion wasn't recorded.
 
 

 
 

I've decided instead of trying to edit the videos I'm just going to stream it and export it to youtube, so if you wanna stay up to date on our Operations follow me @ www.twitch.tv/nate719 

All Personnel,
 
Part 1 of 2 parts, FTX 02-17.  Part 2 will follow in a day or two.
 
 
Excellent movement to objective by our personnel.
 
 

 
 

Mr. Stance,
 
Application accepted. Within the next hour, you will receive permission for your training pipeline. Check the PHASE I sub-board for the next available scheduled Recruit Training. If you are attending a Recruit Training check each thread for available times and sign up for it in the "Recruit Training" Forum. There will be a thread to sign in.
 
In Summary:
Step 1. Welcome aboard. You will receive permissions soon.
Step 2. Sign up for a "Recruit Training" in the Recruit Training Forum.
 
Thank you and once again, welcome aboard Recruit.
 
Respectfully Submitted,
SSgt Stone
Recruiting Office Detachment Personnel

1LT Creech and Ssgt Stone,
 
Thank you for both being willing to show me where to look to find the player ID. I hope to be able to start working with you all soon.

Hola Ghost, 
 
Check out this video and see if it helps. If not, feel free to come find us on TS.
 

 
See you soon!

I've found that by creating a loadout without a radio in the communications slot will allow you to save and load said loadout. Worked for me the past few missions.

Of course you take out the Heli vs Heli action we had.... other then that... Daniel FIRE BAD, VERY BAD.

"Pilots are dead, Daniel's on fire"    still cracks me up

All Personnel,
 
Training Mission Video.
 
Daniel gets too close to a burning chopper at the end.  Watch what happens!
 
As always, watch in High Definition.
 

Moments before member of team 2 of the 4th MRB take heavy fire 

Operators Prepare for a Mission 2017,  Location :Unkown

photos and video from the operations. First hand look through the eyes of 4Th MRB operators on the front lines.

Guess you can't be what you eat then... eh?  
 
That looks like some really good dirt there. All we have here is that damn red stuff. 

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