Greg Munger

USMC Veteran Honor-Courage-Commitment #SemperFi

[🇺🇸 Jingo 🇺🇸 @Jingoman111]

💯 5 Stars, You Could Eat Off the Floor. OORAH! 💯

[MCRD San Diego @MCRD_SD]

U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Fox Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion executed the basic water survival qualification, consisting of a 25-meter swim, a 15-foot tower jump, a 25-meter pack swim, an underwater gear shed and four-minute tread.

USMC photo by LCpl. Kevin Alonso

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

Baseball has "Yogisms" the Marine Corps has "Mattisisms."

This was one of General Mattis's rules to live by, which in turn, he passed along to his fellow Marines during their deployment in Iraq.

#Military #Quotes

[The MSgt-Top G @PitTalkPodcast1]

The Marine Corps is better Part VI.

Because we talk talk trash and our Drill is way better—We actually march in unison not walk in a gaggle. 🦅🌎⚓️

[Ben Eisenhart @BEisenhart]

There is no one more confident in their worldview than someone who has never left their hometown.

[𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 @thesucklife]

Boot Camp Transformation
👉 https://t.co/FVA31llJ2g
#USMC #Marines #SemperFi #TheSuckLife #TGIF

[Brad Williams Photo @bradwphoto]

A few from Leavenworth Street last night. LaCasa Pizzaria and Bronco's Hamburgers.

[The MSgt-Top G @PitTalkPodcast1]

Marine Arrogance 101

What truly sets Marines apart—is that rare and powerful quality we call esprit de corps.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, we carry the ghosts of every Marine. We stand with the Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood—the Teufelshunde—We stand with the warriors who stormed the blood-soaked beaches and islands of the Pacific: Tarawa, Iwo Jima, and countless others where the sand ran red.

We stand with the Frozen Chosin, who fought and marched out of hell in sub-zero darkness. We stand with the Marines who clawed through Hue City, held Khe Sanh against impossible odds, and slogged through the mud and rice paddies of Southeast Asia. We stand with those who rolled across the desert in Desert Storm, fought house-to-house in Iraqi Freedom, and held the line in the long war of GWOT in Afghanistan.

That’s why, no matter where we are on November 10th, every Marine raises a glass to the Corps’ birthday, we’ll never settle for being an Army of one. For most of us, it’s not something we were—it’s something we are.

It is the single most defining part of who and what we are. Some call it arrogance. We call it pride—and we have every right to it. We are the most feared, most ferocious warriors to ever walk this earth. We are what every other branch wishes they could be.
Modern Day Spartans!

This isn’t bragging but Some will still whisper “arrogance” and then we smile. So, why are Marines special?

Hell if I know—we just are.

Respectfully,
The Few. The Proud. The Marines.
🦅🌎⚓️

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

In 1962, a struggling McDonald's franchise owner in Cincinnati walked into Ray Kroc's office with an idea for a fish sandwich, and Kroc told him: "You're always coming up here with a bunch of crap. I don't want my stores stunk up with the smell of fish."

That franchise owner was Lou Groen, the neighborhood around his restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati was 87 percent Catholic, and on Fridays during Lent his daily sales had dropped to 75 dollars. He had a wife, twins at home, and a McDonald's that was bleeding money one meatless Friday at a time. He had watched the Frisch's Big Boy across the street doing full business every Friday because they served a fish sandwich, and he had gone to Chicago to tell Ray Kroc that McDonald's needed one too. Kroc was not interested.

The reason Kroc was not interested turned out to be that he was already working on his own meatless Friday sandwich. It was called the Hula Burger and it was a slice of grilled pineapple with a piece of cheese on a bun. Kroc believed in it enough to propose a competition. On Good Friday 1962 both sandwiches would be sold at select locations and whichever one sold more units would earn a permanent place on the McDonald's menu. Groen's granddaughter Erica Shadoin, who still owns and operates that same Cincinnati franchise today, later recalled what her grandfather said the moment he heard Kroc's idea: he knew immediately that his fish sandwich was going to win. The final score on Good Friday 1962 was Filet-O-Fish 350, Hula Burger 6. Kroc bought Groen a new suit as his prize.

What Groen had understood and Kroc had missed was something almost embarrassingly simple. The Catholic population of Cincinnati was not avoiding meat on Fridays because they wanted pineapple. They were avoiding meat because their faith required it, and what they wanted in its place was something that actually tasted like a meal. A breaded halibut fillet with tartar sauce on a steamed bun tasted like a meal. A grilled pineapple ring with cheese on a hamburger bun tasted like someone had run out of ideas on a Thursday night. Groen had spent months perfecting his recipe before he ever went to Chicago. He had even noticed one of his employees putting a slice of cheese on a fish sandwich he was making for himself one afternoon and decided it was a good enough idea to steal. That half slice of cheese has been on every Filet-O-Fish ever since.

By 1963 the sandwich was rolling out across the entire McDonald's system. By 1965 it became the first new item ever added to the permanent McDonald's national menu since Kroc had taken over the chain. Ray Kroc acknowledged the Hula Burger's failure in his autobiography Grinding it Out, writing: "It was a giant flop when we tried it in our stores. One customer said, I like the hula, but where's the burger?"

Today McDonald's sells 300 million Filet-O-Fish sandwiches every year. Twenty-three percent of those are sold during Lent. Lou Groen retired in 1985 owning 43 McDonald's franchises. He passed away in 2011. His granddaughter Erica still runs the restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati where the whole thing started, the 66th McDonald's franchise ever opened, the place where a desperate man with 75 dollars in daily Friday sales invented one of the most enduring items in the history of fast food because a pineapple slice on a bun was never going to be the answer.

© Eats History

#archaeohistories

[The MSgt-Top G @PitTalkPodcast1]

I had a Navy Psychologist explain it to me this way.

When a person enlists in the Air Force/Navy for six years and gets out, it takes him 5-7 days to adjust.

When you enlist in the Army for 6 years, it takes you 6 years to adjust.

But when you enlist in the Marine Corps And graduate Boot Camp, you never adjust, you are a Marine forever.

That’s the difference between you and me—LFG 🦅🌎⚓️

[Harold #1 Aces Fan @AceHarold1937]

Tonight I discovered a St. Louis institution called “Lion’s Choice”..I naively assumed it was similar to Arby’s..However, the roast beef had the kind of quality you’d expect from something carved at a steakhouse..For several glorious bites, I forgot the Aces lost yesterday!!

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

Interesting read. 👇🏼

The company that k*lled Kmart was not Walmart.

1962: Kmart opens its first discount store in Garden City, Michigan.

One simple idea.

Sell everything a family needs under one roof at prices no one else can match.

The formula works from day one.

By 1966, Kmart has over 160 locations and surpassed $1B in sales.

By 1976, the company opens 271 new stores in a single year.

No retailer in history had ever expanded that fast.

By 1981, the 2,000th Kmart store opens its doors.

Kmart is the second largest retailer in America behind only Sears.

Families across the country plan their weekends around trips to Kmart.

The brand is everywhere.

Then CEO Joseph Antonini makes a fatal decision.

Instead of investing in the stores that made Kmart dominant, he goes on a buying spree.

Walden Books.

Builders Square.

The Sports Authority.

OfficeMax.

Borders.

Five major acquisitions in roughly a decade.

The plan: turn Kmart into a retail conglomerate that owns everything.

The result is the opposite.

Corporate attention shifts away from the core business.

Store shelves go empty because inventory management falls apart.

Locations go decades without renovation.

Customers start complaining about dirty, outdated stores.

Meanwhile, the acquisitions drain capital and executive focus.

Not a single one works out.

By 1995, all five are sold off.

But the damage is already done.

Walmart passes Kmart in sales in 1990 and never looks back.

Kmart’s stores keep getting worse while the competition keeps getting better.

2002: Kmart files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The largest retailer to ever go bankrupt.

They merge with Sears in 2005, hoping two struggling giants can save each other.

They can’t.

Sears Holdings files for bankruptcy in 2018.

From 2,486 stores at its peak to just 3 locations remaining today.

Meanwhile, Walmart owns discount retail completely.

Sam Walton opened his first store in 1962.

The same year Kmart opened.

But Walton never bought bookstores or sporting goods chains or office supply companies.

He did one thing.

He built the most efficient supply chain in retail history and delivered the lowest prices to customers every single day.

Over 10,800 stores worldwide.

$681 billion in revenue.

2.1 million employees.

The largest company on Earth by revenue.

Same year.

Same industry.

Opposite strategies.

Opposite outcomes.

Your biggest threat is not your competition.

It is the moment you stop investing in what made you successful and start chasing things that sound exciting.

Your customers fell in love with your core product.

They did not ask you to become five different companies.

Stop thinking growth means acquiring more.

Start thinking growth means becoming the best at what you already do.

The businesses that last are the ones that go deeper, not wider.

Because when you try to own everything, you end up losing the one thing that mattered.

Think Big.

- Chris M. Walker

[Archive: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan @SecNavPhelan]

Congratulations to the @USMC for again earning a clean financial audit – proof of a culture built on discipline and stewardship. It’s great to see a service treating every dollar like it’s their own and managing it responsibly for the American people.

When we account for it and invest it with purpose, we boost readiness, build trust with taxpayers, and the Marines remain the world’s most lethal amphibious force.

[Quarry Oaks @QuarryOaksUSA]

Everyone is lining up for tee times this year.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

100-year-old former MVP autographs his baseball card 75 years later…

[Patrick Lencioni @patricklencioni]

Burnout isn’t always about too much work.
It’s often about doing the wrong kind of work for too long.

Our Working Genius assessment helps you find your natural gifts so you can spend less time drained and more time energized.

[TonytheTiger57 @TonytheTiger57]

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[U.S. Marines @USMC]

#Marines with Kilo Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, take part in a graduation ceremony at @MCRD_SD, California.

This ceremony marked the end of a 13-week transformation that included training in drill, marksmanship, basic combat skills, and Marine Corps customs and traditions.

#WEMAKEMARINES #RecruitTraining #MCRDSD

[Greg Munger @greg_munger]

Followed Fuzzy & John Daly for a practice round at the Master’s in 2003, one of the most entertaining experiences of all time, he will be missed

[Jim Gallagher Jr. @GallagherJrGC]

I was a huge Fuzzy fan growing up in Indiana. I remember watching him win the Masters in my dad’s golf shop and dreaming that one day I would play in the Masters.
Fuzzy always encouraged me especially my early years on Tour. I will miss him and his incredible laugh. Legend.

[Blake Albers 🥩 @blakealbers]

The Jerry’s team is spread across the state today. Food show on the left and beef industry summit on the right