[RJL]

Recently, when walking home from work, I was passed by one of those red monster pick-up trucks with an oversized bumper sticker on the back window that announced: FORMER MARINE.

From what I've learned from the Marines on FR, no self-respecting Marine would have such a bumper sticker.

Exactly correct, I believe this walk home and the big red truck exist only in this guy’s feverish little mind. Every Marine I’ve ever talked with had the attitude there are no “former Marines” once a Marine always a Marine.

[Poohbah]

Exactly correct, I believe this walk home and the big red truck exist only in this guy’s feverish little mind. Every Marine I’ve ever talked with had the attitude there are no “former Marines” once a Marine always a Marine.

I sometimes call myself (in jest) a "recovering Marine."