Posted on Nov 24, 2016
How important was sports in your Company, Battalion or Brigade?
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MAJ David Vermillion
Most places that I was stationed at it was never a big deal until my final destination prior to retirement and there was this LTC that had sports on his plate 24/7. It became a negative thing with me.
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There are only a few teams that were prominant ont he ships......Alabama and Florida State. You had your few in between like UT (Hook em!!), Notre Dame, UCLA, Duke, etc. but hearing "roll tide" was enough to give me a headache.
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MAJ David Vermillion
I love sports a lot, but it's a game win or lose and the sun rises in the east the next day. I have known people that when their team lhas lost a game they wouldn't go to work the next day because they didn't want to hear about how they lost. It's very depressing to lose to some people. Their whole world changes based on a game. I see it as entertainment.
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To some people have done some drastic things based on their favorite team. I have faves myself but wouldn't bet with money because things can change so quickly.
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I wouldn't say it was important to the level that sports came before mission because the mission is always first. But we did have a bunch of competitive teams that we could play for whether it was soccer, basketball, football, golf. We have a baseball field, but I don't recall us having a baseball league. But sports was encouraged since it's great for PT and builds up camaraderie and unit cohesion.
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MAJ David Vermillion
Sounds like it was kept in its perspective. I once served in a unit that the commander seem to care more about sports trophies than the mission.
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I don't know what its like now but we used to have football teams with full gear just like high school/college navy, marine corps and army and we played for service and respect not only service but division just like the boxing smokers, good old days
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Not very. Oddly enough on both Active and Reserve side I have found commands have not been very enthusiastic about sports; especially sports PT. Sure there were some injuries but no more so than for those doing regular PT, but the perception was there that it was riskier. That said, I myself got 2 spiral fractures of two fingers thanks to flag football on battalion fun day. Good times...good times.
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Not much emphasis placed on sports except in some cases on inter-mural teams in softball, basketball etc. The Marines always had a softball team signed up to play each time the ship went into port. We would compete against teams from our ship, other ships in port at the same time, as well as some naval base teams of permanent personnel stationed there, such as at Subic, Sasebo, etc. As per PO2 William Allen Crowder
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Not very, we had a softball league, but that's it. We were mission oriented.
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In some cases too important; e.g. soldiers excused from PT for post softball team practice, which doesn't condition you for anything mission related.
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MAJ David Vermillion
I know what you mean. I had a LTC that would do anything to win sports trophies.
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In fairness, my grandfather was a company clerk in the 21st Infantry when it was part of the old "Hawaiian Division" at Schofield Barracks in '39; think "From Here to Eternity". He was a college dropout scholarship athlete. So his de facto duty position was tackle on the regimental football team.
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We have tons of people who never shut up about sports, but it's not in any way relevant to our day to day lives...
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