Sure you didn't hear that from your comrades that rolled in on their H-3 yesterday?
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New MARADMIN- no more rolled sleeves in cammies.
- Thread starter Swanee
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Sure you didn't hear that from your comrades that rolled in on their H-3 yesterday?
The Canuks? They seemed nice, until they started evangelizing about waffles...
I was disappointed that they weren't evangelizing about Bacon Strips & Bacon Strips & Bacon Strips & Bacon Strips...
It hasn't been a decade yet!
Black boots are better than suede. They fit perfectly when broken in, they look shit-hot, and they last forever if you take care of them.
And that wall locker is clearly not inspection ready, half that stuff needs to go on the JOB!
You planning to curb-stomp somebody?
He's gotta get his red laces somehow, right?
Bacon sells itself- no evangelizing required!
Amen, brother!
You'll see Marines walking around in both uniforms - desert sleeves rolled or unrolled and woodlands never rolled - depending on the requirements of what they are doing. And no one gives a second thought to it because it is assumed you are doing what you gotta do and/or doing it for a good reason.
I just finished TBS about 3 weeks ago. We are still fighting in Centralia. I'm still waiting for my Centralia Action Ribbon and Campaign Medals. I had what seemed like 40 deployments out there.
Here is some sweet Centralia gear (if you haven't already acquired yours....):
http://www.cafepress.com/centraliawar
Well, I have served in a Peace Time Marine Corps (as have several other active members of this forum), and I'll tell you that the only differences between the Peace Time Corps and the War Time Corps are that:
1. You don't deploy as often. MEUs and UDPs are about all you do, and
2. We're poor. I'm talking "buying your own shit paper and cleaning supplies for the barracks; using 40-year old 782 gear; and no more civil servants/contractors (so you're going to (re-)assume their workload with a fraction of our current manning) poor." "
The garrison-type uniform games? Those are continuous.
-I came in during the era of woodland camo and black shoes - we spent countless off-duty hours ironing and spit-shining. (Towards the end of the Peace Time Corps, MARPAT slowly made its debut, but it was accelerated after 2001.)
-Spit-shined boots? They went away...but there was still a vocal minority who wanted us to starch and iron our MARPAT uniforms and ditch the 'suede' boots.
-Sleeves-up, sleeves-down games? They've been played between the armory and the range since Sam Nicholas was a Candidate.
-Wearing beanies/watch caps in uniform? SNCOs have been fighting that battle since Chapultepec.
-Wearing 8-pt cover vs. Boonie cover? Those regulations have been in place only since the MARPAT uniforms came about (yes, during the War Time Corps).
-Wearing Tan in the summer/Green in the winter? Again, those regulations have been in place only since the MARPAT uniforms came about (yes, during the War Time Corps).
-Shifting the uniform changeover dates in the fall and winter? Another moving regulation that has been in place (and moved quite a bit) since the MARPAT uniforms came about (yes, during the War Time Corps).
-Reflective belts? Another War Time Corps innovation.
-GWOE, IA, Trafficking in Persons, and the myriad of exciting MARINENET courses? All inventions of the War Time Corps.
Bottom line - Don't think that there's some huge difference between the War Time Corps and the Peace Time Corps WRT the garrison/uniform games. They have always been there, and they will never go away. (In fact, I think an argument can be made that the number of garrison-type administrative anklebiters (annual training, leave request requirements, etc.) and "nitnoid" uniform regulations have actually increased during the past decade of war...)
This sounds like the Air Force infiltrated the Marine Corps.
It's called "Joint," brother.
phrogpilot73
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Understatement of the decade. You should have said "broke as shit." Some of the youngin's that only know the post 9/11 Corps are going to be in for a RUDE awakening...