Can you imagine the crap he would take from his fellow recruits for waving the card?
They tried them during the Klinton years, but got rid of them.
Urban legend.
Check out:http://www.snopes.com/military/stress.htm
Have you noticed that there is a spellcheck feature. Good grief. How old are you?
"Word spread via grape vine/his pears about the new, as he says "sisified" batch of Marines"
Are you insinuating that the Marines are a bunch of fruits?
Since there are people out there trying to kill her son, you would think a "marine mom" would want the toughest possible training for her son, to give him the best possible chance of survival in the gun-battle he is almost guaranteed to face.
From Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/military/stress.htm
I am not a Marine, but my thought is that the Stress Cards will likely stay undercover. Samy guys just said that DI's can't *make* you do anything, but they can make you *wish* that you did.
I was a "doc" at Fort Jackson for 5 years. I always heard about "Stress Cards" but never could find a trainee with one.
OK. Time to cue up "Full Metal Jacket"
Are these new supposed Marines going to be able to show this card to a bad guy when they are in country. These cards will get these Marines killed. Sarge is the only one that train them so they have a chance to survive. If these new Marines are going to protect us WE have to find a way to destroy this card!
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Even if it is true, which I highly doubt, just wait until the card users get into the Fleet Force. Justice is very different out there.
I hated army basic training. I hated the drill instructors, the stress, the physical demands, and the nit picky stuff they made us do. Then I got to Vietnam and was grateful as can be for what I went through in basic.
In other news their uniform will be replaced with little pink fruffy skirts.
There was something called a 'blues' card for gals in the army. If they were not feeling up to par they could pull out the 'blues' card and skip PT.
Gosh, there. I did a Google search for "stress card." Guess what? The Snopes page debunking this was the third hit on the first page.
I guess you didn't spell it right, so Google didn't find that for ya....
More care, please, in posting. There's so much information on Free Republic that it's already hard to get to it all. Misinformation caused by not bothering to search makes it all the harder.
Yes it's true. A woman with whom I worked said her daughter was in boot camp they had stress cards. They also allow Marines to dress in PT outfits prior to PT instead of BDUs. Now, I like underarmour, but I doubt they make a combat line.