My favorite quote is "If recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders,"
I'm pretty sure the Marine Corps has been uninvited and unwelcome intruders in far tougher places then Berkely, CA and have faced stiffer opposition then Code Pink before
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And I've seen "
Join the Marines. Travel to Exotic Lands. Meet Exciting and Unusual People -- And Kill Them." on many Marine Corps t-shirts and posters before, so I'm not sure that's going to discourage anybody.
I agree. Somehow, I don't think the Marine Corps is too offended with this assumption. At the grad runs during OCS, one particular Gunny had a certain glee about him whenever the parents would show up (some of them hippie) and he would purposefully be as offensive and coarse as possible.
My two favorite cadence gems of his were as follows:
I'm going to the market,
where all the mothers shop.
I pull out my machete,
and I begin to chop.
Left, right, left, right, left, right KILL!
And a very similar
I'm going to the playground,
where all the children play.
I pull out my machine gun,
and I begin to spray.
Left, right, left, right, left, right KILL!
The look on the faces of the mothers and fathers was priceless....