Eff-ing A, Navy dude. Which is how my outfit says what you guys call Bravo Zulu. Your blog rocketh like Joshua's trumpet, by the way.
MAJ Pain does indeed look like a Marine. He reminds me of a line I used on a really large, gentle (fortunately) Marine NCO at language school. "You can always tell a Marine -- you just can't tell him much." I still breathe because he thought it was funny (I wasn't SF in those days). What the hell was his name? He had a beautiful singing voice (we had a lot of guitars, and a little talent, in that crowd).
(By the way, the Marine I was hassling was acing Chinese Mandarin, so big and ugly does not equal dumb. What the HELL was his name?).
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"No, I was Air Force, but I have a great deal of respect for the Corps." I was flattered. I must have been standing reeeeal straight. :-)
Most Marines take that kind of kidding with good natured humor. I had one former Marine tell me recently that the Marines are a department of the Navy - the mens department. They give as good or more than they take. And if not for the United States Mariens, a lot of us would not be here today.