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I can think of a lot of historic battles that I would have turned the tide on but regardless, I would first make a pit stop to myself at about 15 years old and tell them everything I now know.
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Time-10,000 BC
Place-The Indus Valley and Malabar Coast of India Purpose-To investigate the proposed Pre-Harappan civilization. Some Indian scholars now link the Vedas to that civilization. Don't think I'd really need the squad, but it's always nice to have back up. |
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1974 I'd pick up Lynda Carter and take her to a Herbie Hancock concert.
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I would return to the golden age of piracy. Commandeer a ship of the line and then pillage the high seas with my bloodthirsty Marine pirate crew. We would have an island hideout well stocked with Latin hotties, rum and immense treasure.
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To the time when my mil dies. I would buy the squad of Marines all the booze they could drink and all the whores they could fuck in celebration!!!
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Go back and visit the Neandertal people. Take videos of them doing everything from hunting to eating.
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Surprised nobody has mentioned graffiti or pregnancies yet, we are talking about Marines.
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What about Mecca, 629AD. Slaughter the Muslims coming from Medina and crush that cult from history.
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I would return to the golden age of piracy. Commandeer a ship of the line and then pillage the high seas with my bloodthirsty Marine pirate crew. We would have an island hideout well stocked with Latin hotties, rum and immense treasure. View Quote |
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With an infantry squad of Marines kitted for combat? What event/era/location would you deploy to, what would you do? What would you accomplish? Nothing but what you & your team can carry. Corpsman/medic included with his kit. No resupply. You can have as much or as little time in the past as possible. View Quote No need for the squad unless needed as proof. I just want to go back to 1790's with a history book and sit down with Congress and the Founding Fathers to talk about some wording in our founding documents and to have them buyout all slave owners and repatriate those slaves. That should pretty much fix today quite nicely. |
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You would be in for a disappointment, since I'd go back and prevent the crucifixion... Just kidding. I would want to go back there, but I wouldn't try to change anything. I'd set up 24/7 video surveillance of Jesus' tomb, to record what actually happened. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The Last Supper--pick up a certain cup? and then stick around to watch Jesus die for my redemption... Just kidding. I would want to go back there, but I wouldn't try to change anything. I'd set up 24/7 video surveillance of Jesus' tomb, to record what actually happened. |
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Pirates didn't usually do very well for themselves. When your squad exhausted all ammo' might be tough sledding. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I would return to the golden age of piracy. Commandeer a ship of the line and then pillage the high seas with my bloodthirsty Marine pirate crew. We would have an island hideout well stocked with Latin hotties, rum and immense treasure. |
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If you don't believe the eye witness reports, not sure what could be gained. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The Last Supper--pick up a certain cup? and then stick around to watch Jesus die for my redemption... Just kidding. I would want to go back there, but I wouldn't try to change anything. I'd set up 24/7 video surveillance of Jesus' tomb, to record what actually happened. 2. Knowledge is what could be gained. Faith is a choice, and the choosing is what matters. |
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With an infantry squad of Marines kitted for combat? What event/era/location would you deploy to, what would you do? What would you accomplish? Nothing but what you & your team can carry. Corpsman/medic included with his kit. No resupply. You can have as much or as little time in the past as possible. View Quote Era: Before May 2011 What event: Take out OBL What: Explosives demolition of the compound with OBL inside Fly in on an Osprey. Set up mortars. Move guys in to cover the exits of the compound. Start attacking the compound with mortar fire. Shoot anyone who exits the compound. Set the inside of the compound on fire. Extract after it is fully burned to the ground. It would be way more messy than what the Navy SEALs accomplished and a lot more collateral damage. |
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Richland, Wa. 1976, I would tear up my wife to be's application for employment at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. With that being taken care of, maybe she wouldn't be on a feeding tube and oxygen today!
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Massachusetts 1786. We'd help Shays Rebellion and tell the founding fathers to not become what they rebelled against themselves.
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Fun? Fullerton, Ca. 1987. My sweet, sweet Carol.
History? I'd like to see Krakatoa blow. |
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I've got a story on a creative writing website where an ex-marine and his corpsman buddy utilize a time machine built by a physics professor to go back to 1876 Deadwood. Guy was a sniper in the corps so he's using an M1A with an ACOG along with a M1911 Colt as well as a CZ 75. His buddy carries an M4 as well as a fully auto AK snuck back home. The corpsman ends up helping a woman realize her dream of becoming a doctor while the marine makes money transporting gold and collecting all the weaponry collected off the bad guys that try to part him from his gold. Said weapons minus 137 years of wear and tear are brought back to the present and sold on gun auctions. In the story, he comes across a "Custer" rifle, an later, a well worn Indian gun that was on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Much of the story deals with modern people dealing with actually living in the past, along with the reactions of people from the past dealing with the future. The marine marries a woman who deals cards for a living, and together they build a town where the gold comes to them. In the story, I deal with the use of modern weapons and optics along with night vision and thermal imaging devices against black powder weapons.
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Also, just occurred to me, War of 1812. Could have repelled the British incursion into DC and then fought our way to Ottawa and forced the UK to cede Canada to us. A North America unified under the banned of the US in the 1800s would have led to a better world. View Quote |
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Richland, Wa. 1976, I would tear up my wife to be's application for employment at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. With that being taken care of, maybe she wouldn't be on a feeding tube and oxygen today! View Quote I'm sorry to hear that |
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Do we have someone carrying a nuclear weapon? I think a nuclear detonation somewhere in Saudi Arabia at the encampment of Muhammed's army the morning of their first attack on Mecca kicking off his first Jihad would be an appropriate time incursion. View Quote |
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What about Mecca, 629AD. Slaughter the Muslims coming from Medina and crush that cult from history. View Quote |
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1840 and shoot Karl Marx until we all ran out of ammo. Beat by the post above.
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I would take the squad of marines back to Spain prior to the moors and they would train the spaniards to repel the moors and I would research more about black powder tech. Then the marines would breed a superior race into the Spanish culture and Christopher Columbus wouldn't discover America, he would impregnate it
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I'd just travel back 10 seconds in time and get back out of the machine and see what happens when we all meet ourselves.
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Make sure that July 1944 plot worked...
Or 1939.....no war with Poland.. |
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That would be good but The biggest threat in the world comes from the Marxist cult. If we kill Marx and those other guys he bummed around with maybe we can prevent socialism, communism and globalism. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What about Mecca, 629AD. Slaughter the Muslims coming from Medina and crush that cult from history. |
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The beginning and the end of creation in an effort to escape it.
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The crusades would be my choice
Put an end to Islam before it threatened to ruin the civilized world |
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I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the spirit and intent of the original question. You don't travel with a squad of armed Marines to mine asteroids. I'm pretty sure the O.P. was wondering how people would change history, if they could. And if you travel to the future, they are going to have more advanced weaponry than you do. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Everyone in this thread is thinking of the past. I'd go to the future. I want to travel between stars, explore other planets, mine asteroids, and see how humanity lives in the real space age. |
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That would be good but The biggest threat in the world comes from the Marxist cult. If we kill Marx and those other guys he bummed around with maybe we can prevent socialism, communism and globalism. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What about Mecca, 629AD. Slaughter the Muslims coming from Medina and crush that cult from history. |
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I'll bet they would have been good with Hollandaise sauce, but you couldn't make it because none of the ingredients were available. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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week before last with last weeks lottery numbers.
but i would probably fuck up the paperwork and go two weeks ahead with next weeks lottery numbers. |
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Much better. Or best yet is kill Muhamed. Pull him off a little boy and shoot him in the head early on in his cult leader role. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What about Mecca, 629AD. Slaughter the Muslims coming from Medina and crush that cult from history. Or best yet is kill Muhamed. Pull him off a little boy and shoot him in the head early on in his cult leader role. What would the world look like if today's Muslim world was Coptic Christian or Jewish? |
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I would take the squad of marines back to Spain prior to the moors and they would train the spaniards to repel the moors and I would research more about black powder tech. Then the marines would breed a superior race into the Spanish culture and Christopher Columbus wouldn't discover America, he would impregnate it View Quote |
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