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Thank goodness the Rand Corp. brought this to our attention.

Shocking..... Those nasty boys. Well Dr. Sarah Meadows, you ought to see how we treat the enemy.......

We had just returned from deployment, 13th MEU, 2/4 and of course the brass had to make speeches, while we stood in formation, with our familes 50 feet away.

I had flown in early and went to the infirmary to round up the wounded and get them to the parade deck. We got all the cases of beer we could find and slipped them through, covered with blankets, under the wheel chair seats.

It was a considerable pile that we put on the deck. We didn't know the brass was coming. The Battalion C/O shows up, sees the cases of beer covered with blankets and assumes that it was a speakers platform.

He jumps up on the beer and chews us out about over-drinking and partying. Everyone but the C/O knew what was under the blankets.

There wasn't a dry eye in the place as we stifled ourselves. Maybe that was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

We drank all that beer, several Marines chose to sleep on dirt that night.

1 posted on 07/30/2018 6:57:24 PM PDT by gandalftb

"Report: Marines lead all services in binge drinking, sex partners"

A far more important first, they are: "..first to fight for right and freedom...and to keep our honor clean..."

So drinking and sex are not relevant to anything except keeping spirits up when you have been trained to know you are probably going to die in a foreign land...At least that's the way it was for us between 1951 and 1957...

84 posted on 07/30/2018 8:40:59 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)

A new report from the RAND Corporation analyzed survey data from thousands of active-duty military members and found Marines are more likely to be heavy drinkers, use tobacco and engage in riskier sexual behavior than the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the other branches.

Sailors this can not be allowed to stand

Time to get RANDY

92 posted on 07/30/2018 9:00:19 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)

Rand Corp: Marines lead all services in binge drinking, sex partners

Marines: Woo Hoo! Still the champs!

98 posted on 07/30/2018 9:50:59 PM PDT by DesScorp

That settles it.

I should’ve joined the Marines.

103 posted on 07/30/2018 10:32:57 PM PDT by JamesP81 (Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. Vote and act accordingly.)

The type of person who joins the Marines is not necessarily the type of person who joins the Air Force.

How much were they paid to conduct this study?!

104 posted on 07/30/2018 11:01:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)

It’s heartwarming to see this generation of Marines are upholding the tradition of the Corps.

106 posted on 07/31/2018 12:30:17 AM PDT by theirjustdue

I think the headline more or less encapsulates every drill instructors’ boasts.

107 posted on 07/31/2018 2:58:01 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)

They must have done this research on Nov. 11th....sheesh.

111 posted on 07/31/2018 5:01:55 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? 😀

115 posted on 07/31/2018 6:59:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)

Well, like the old song goes "Live Hard, Live Fast and Die Young and Keep Beautiful Company.”

119 posted on 07/31/2018 11:26:28 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)

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