Once a Marine, always a Marine. You are a special case who provided an extra dose of backbone to the Air Force.
Wow! You gave a lot to our Nation. Thank you.
I hope you are wrong about the Marines caving in. You are probably right, though. Somehow the PC crowd is winning the battle for civilization. I feel sorry for the generations to follow.
Actually, not so much of a special case, I served with many AF officers and more than a few enlisted who started their careers in the Marines. Overall, the AF with a mostly different mission than the Marines is not all that prissy. That idea has carried over from WWII when ground troops considered the bomber and fighter crews to be “privileged” because they went back to warm food and beds at night. The infantry guys didn’t know about the fatality statistics of the bomber/fighters crews. Air crews were many times more likely to die than the guys on the ground. One raid with only 200 bombers that suffered 50% losses meant that up to 1000 men died, were injured or taken prisoner for each bomber with a 10 man crew. Each service plays a critical role in the combined arms operations.