Re: Hog Tooth?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Alaskaman 11</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rtgfi</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Alaskaman 11</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rtgfi</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> The Marines who graduate snipers school receive a literal hogs tooth to symbolize being a HOG. when they get into a gunfight with an enemy sniper in the field, and do the job they were sent to do (kill enemy snipers) they are encouraged to take the bullet from the chamber of the enemy snipers rifle and make a necklace out of it. This bullet is now your real hogs tooth and is symbolic of being the master of your own death since the bullet is the one meant to take your life, and now you hold it.
i realize that wasnt an eloquent explanation. thats the story ive always heard. it may not be totally accurate, but id never wear that if i was you. you didnt earn it, and it means nothing to you. just put it in your safe if you want to. </div></div>
Ok I'm digging a foxhole, this kid is about to het his head handed to him. This has a good chance of getting real ugly! </div></div>
and why is that? i gave the same advice as everyone else. my 2 pennies worth is if you didnt earn it, dont wear it. as far as the explanation behind the hogs tooth thing, i dont wear one, im not a Marine or a sniper, and i dont own any sniper video games. Years ago a guy at a flea market told me the story i just told. thats all i know about it. </div></div>
Well the story is wrong, and I just did not want to see one of the grumpy ones in here eat you alive.</div></div> Just a bit over dramatic Rtgfi (the story you were told is, not you), like most things you find or hear at flea markets. This is a necro-thread anyhow.