[ErnBatavia]

When I hit the "Yellow Footprints" at MCRD San Diego (forty years ago), I was in a group of probably 80...over the first few days, it was obvious that there were a half dozen (and none of these ended up with us for more than a handful of days) that NO Marine Corps recruiter should have let get that far; but these few did - and I'm sure it happened in every training platoon.

[Domangart]

So I am standing there with this other guy waiting to get the paperwork to fly down to Lackland. This admin type tells everyone going to the navy to line up. He counts to twelve and tells the rest that they are Marines.

That was how they ended up there.