At least the Marines are promoting people with combat experience

While the Army and the Air Force are busy going full PC, promoting people who want to turn the services into mirrors of progressive society -- a distinct minority, by the way -- rather than fighting machines, the Marine Corps is busy promoting warriors. It gives me hope, although how these guys will survive the remainder of Emperor Barry I's reign is beyond me. First, we had Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., who distinguished himself in Iraq and Afghanistan, appointed to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, only the second Marine named to that position. Now, we have a man nominated to be commandant of the Marine Corps who also apparently is a fighter.

Another Iraq veteran, Lt. Gen. Robert Neller, who has a reputation as a badass, is in line to succedd Dunford as commandant. The Corps, apparently, is full of stories about Neller. He might not be Chesty Puller, but he sure as hell sounds like a Marine:

It was a sweaty morning at Rodman Naval Base in Panama. Then-Col. Robert Neller, a visiting regimental commander, was out on a run with troops from Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines. The company commander, Capt. Jeff Dill, eyed a rise in the distance known affectionately as Suicide Hill, and decided to spare the senior officer and go around it.
All of a sudden, he felt Neller breathing in his ear. "How come you didn't go up the hill, captain?" Neller demanded. "You don't have the hair on your ass."
Dill immediately reversed course, eventually reaching the hilltop despite sustaining a number of casualties involving Marines who had overindulged the night before. When the run ended, Neller flashed a grin.
"Good for you, captain," he said that morning in 1998. "You don't back down from a challenge."

What I read about this guy indicates he will be a good commandant, which, of course, makes me wonder how the hell he got appointed by the Obama administration. Anyway, good luck, Gen. Neller. Semper Fi.

The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand; Update!!

Today's feel-good story comes to us from Lynnwood, Washington, where KIRO-TV reports on a trio of Marine Corps recruiters broke up a robbery attempt:

LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Three U.S. Marine Corps recruiters said they heard repeated honking from inside their office on Tuesday around 5:00 p.m. -- when they ran out to see what was going on.
"We thought there was road rage involved or a fight broke loose," said Sgt. Riccardo Schebesta.
Schebesta and two other recruiters rushed outside and saw a woman yelling for help.
"She said, ‘Help me I’m being robbed.’ I stopped paying attention to her. She's not the problem," said Staff Sgt. Ben Shoemaker.
He immediately saw one of the suspects, and ran to try and catch them.
"No -- that kid was never going to outrun me," Shoemaker added. "Marines run towards the sound of chaos."
Moments earlier, Lynnwood Police said that the woman was confronted by two robbery suspects.
Officers said the woman in her 60's was getting into her pick-up truck in the parking lot of the Alderwood Mall.
Two teenagers then attempted robbing her, and one of them said he had a gun.

The woman, apparently a retired police officer, actually was doing OK on her own. She had dropped her purse to the ground, shoved one of the would-be robbers and was chasing them with her pickup truck when the Marines arrived:

She couldn't get to them, but Shoemaker detained 18-year-old Diego Tavares with a technique called the arm bar.
"An arm bar keeps him on his feet, but keeps him compliant," said Shoemaker.

 As is often the case, the Navy, Army and Marine Corps recruiting offices  in Lynnwood are at the same location -- probably in an office suite. But who ran out to help? Yeah, that's right. Fox News featured the story on its "Fox and Friends" morning show. Heck, these guys just scored so much good PR for the Marines, they'll probably get medals. Maybe the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal for making the Marines look good. The counterargument, of course, is that it's so easy to make the Marines look good, no medals are necessary. That's not what motivates these guys, after all. Semper Fi, fellas.

Hat tip to Hot Air.

UPDATE: Hot Air uses this quote from one of the Marines. When the woman being robbed told the Marines one of the perpetrators had a gun, they didn't hesitate:

“I’ve been shot at before. It’s not as bad as everyone thinks,” Shoemaker said in an earlier interview. “Most people miss.”