I might be Army, but this is a website about Confederation Marines, so we use your terms leatherneck. So I can no longer go to the latrine( I have to use the head), through the door (Hatch), And have absolutley no idea which stairway goes up and which go down. By the way if the Navy gives the order to retreat do we all run to the far end of the ship?
Danners, Army, assorted guns runners... If the navy orders a retreat, they simply make their best speed to an exotic Island, and drop the Marines off to go storm the local liquer store...
With one possible exception, the Mayaguez incident, May 12, 1975, when Echo Company, 9th Marines, took 18 KIAs fighting the Khmer Rouge on Koh Tang island off the coast of Cambodia. Worst of all, E Co. retreated so fast they left three men behind, PFC Gary Lee Hall, L/Cpl Joseph Nelson Hargrove, and Pvt Danny Marshall who were captured by the Khmer Rouge and later executed. They were first reported as MIA. See THE LAST BATTLE by Ralph Wetterhahn. One American died (40) for every crewman on the Mayaguez container ship all of whom were safe and sound when the Marines landed to rescue them, except they weren't on Koh Tang island. It made me sick to read how that operation was screwed up by the highest levels of our military and civilian leadership and how the Marines and airmen paid the price for that stupidity. Gerald Ford was President then and he was partly responsible for what happened. Nothing ever changes. The higher up you are in government the more you get away with your screwups.