[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

I know well enough, in other words, the actual story. I find it intriguing, though, to note that in World War II he seems to have been a member of the Navy, but for Korea he was called into the Marine Corps.

Like hell you do. Williams was a Marine. One doesn't get commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Navy.

If you are or were a Marine, you've just discredited your honourable branch of service with that gratuitous crack. I was fortunate enough to be able to choose my branch of service and I have no shame whatsoever for having chosen the Air Force. It was then, it is now, and it ever will be an honourable branch in which to serve these United States, as is any branch of the military. You, sir, are the one who just doesn't get it.

Wrong again. Discredited? Gratuitous? You're delusional. Lewis Puller would be shaking my hand were he still alive. I dealt with enough of you scarf wearing prima donnas to know you clowns never get it. I'll bet that you were one of those whiney snot noses on that C-141 at Cubi Point I had to deal with crying about what a long day they had and how tired they were. You spent too much time in the country club. Pound sand.

[BluesDuke]

Like hell you do. Williams was a Marine. One doesn't get commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Navy.

Then I suggest you read My Turn At Bat, in which he specifically stated he enlisted first in the Naval Reserve after the controversy around his III-A reclassification; was assigned for flight training; and, in due course, became a flight instructor (stationed predominantly in Pensacola before a transfer to Pearl Harbour as the war wound down) for the duration of World War II. They don't designate enlisted men as flight instructors, to the best of my knowledge. By the way, I spent no time in any country club. But I should know better than to spend time engaging a battle of wits with the unarmed. Pound your own damn sand.