Reply #45: True!

[chemteacher]

I was one of the Marines few good men....I was a Navy corpsman (old joke...sorry). Part of why I left the service was the hypocrisy I observed when President Clinton was elected in 1992. Many Marines bitched about his "draft dodging" and all kinds of BS. I told them I would rather live in a country where the civilians run the military rather than the military running the civilians. This was at a time when there were several South American countries run by military juntas.

I knew all kinds of Marines from thoughtful to "jarhead," but what they all had in common was a VERY focused approach to their "mission." Interesting for me to be the liberal, long-haired (relatively speaking) sailor in their midst.