In other words, he wanted you to help him destroy unit cohesion by championing his personal idiosyncracies - idiosyncracies that he was unable to defend by himself?
Did he join the USMC to be babysat?
Basically, yeah. He just thought it wasn't right that those guys could beat the hell out of him just becauase he had racist crud on this wall. My CO and I disabused him of that notion.
I think you meant "idiocy" instead of "idiosyncracy".....
I forgot to mention that "infantry" comes from "infant", so you are correct in the assumption that he expected to be "babysat". All Marines are infantry.
(reminds me of a joke: why are marines on navy boats?
Answer: Sheep are too obvious!