If it had been, you'd likely have joined during WWII..
Sadly, both of my uncles and my father served in the Army Air Forces in WWII and they developed a rather loftily superior attitude when dealing with me - one of uncles said that "anybody who's dumb enough to join the Marines during a war is an idiot".
It was quite a while until he and I spoke again.
When I came noe to announce joining, my stepmonster proclaimed “Only thugs and criminals join the Marines”.
This must have just pleased the hell out of my father, who spent WWII as a navy corpsman saving the lives of Marines on Guadalcanal, Okinawa, etc.
She did not like her stepkids much.
Their attitudes may have come from the extremely heavy losses air crews over Europe eclipsed that of the marines, even at Iwo Jima. They were two different types of War environments and both were horrific.