I wasn’t a Marine but...
The Marines always refer to ‘The Old Corps’....
Seems a young lad went into Tun Tavern and some people were sitting at a table and asked him if he wanted to join the Marine Corps.
After explaining everything, he signed up with Enlisted Serial #1 and was handed two chits for beers at the bar.
He was on his second beer when another ‘young recruit’ walked in-Serial USMC #2 and sat next to him.
They got to talking and the BNG said ‘this isn’t bad. we get paid, clothed and they even gave me a chit for a beer.’
#1,,,good BUT Back in the OLD CORPS we got 2 beer chits
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Also
AT MCRD the DI had all the BNGs and was reading the ‘rules of the road’
..Furthermore, there are NO MORE Whites, Blacks, Asians, etc etc etc from now on, EVERYONE IS GREEN.....
NOW.... all you DARK GREEN people get in the back of the bus and all you LIGHT GREEN ones get in the front.....
As to the story about the sandwich and restaurant, apparently in WWII the Axis POWs could eat in the Restaurants like ‘regular customers’ and the Black MPS guarding them were not allowed in the front of the building.
Read where the black U.S. soldiers had to sit in the balcony while the German POWs sat down below. As a white Westerner, that ROYALLY pist me off.