Man, that Marine D.I. would give those poor Marines hell when they weren't in classroom training.
When I was training at Aberdeen, I marched my men into a puddle filled field for PT one drizzly but clearing afternoon shortly after the snow melted.
Positioning the men in a puddle (and myself in a deeper puddle) we proceeded to warm up with calisthenics for maybe twelve or twenty minutes to much grousing although I explained that I would replace any PT uniforms that were ruined. I then produced a football and set a young man (playing enlisted before going back to complete his cadet training at Quantico) with experience playing college ball as referee.
Sides were chosen and we began to play in the mud as football should be played and after time to secure the game continued until we found it to be getting to dark to see.
Not a problem I thought as it was a Friday and the training unit had liberty on weekends. The barracks command, however did see a problem, and my troops were not allowed to enter the barracks until they were hosed down.
It had been my hope that our game and the enthusiasm it generated in the Marine students might inspire a friendly competitive pigskin competition with the classes on the Army side.
But they were having none of it.
In fact, the whole rest of the base didn't want to form an intramural league.
John Madden would have been sad had he been there; that man knew good football.
It was then I truly understood that Marine Electro-optic Ordnance Technicians and our Army counterparts truly see things in different lights.