Phrae, I totally "get" wear you're coming from. I really do. I once blew up a LCpl who showed up to our Chemistry class in cammies because he came straight down from I&I. He deserved it. The LCpl who is working the poolees is doing exactly as he's told. He wasn't out prospecting at the Piggly Wiggly. He was trying to show his recruiter's poolees how to be warriors. And he went to the same boot camp as you so don't think for a second that he wasn't concious of what he was doing.
It is a different Corps than it was ten years ago, but it's not that different. Go to Jacksonville, NC where the rule was actually meant to be applied and see if anybody is breaking it. That, and you even have me telling you to throttle back a little. Which is pretty indicative of how high and right you really are.
an aside: MCLB Albany, huh? What RSS did you come out of?