He washed out of boot camp.
A recruit does not get the "eagle,globe and anchor" until he/she graduates from boot camp.
And a DI doesn't call a recruit a "Marine" until the day he/she graduates from boot camp.
So Blather can call himself whatever he likes but he can't call himself a MARINE!!!
And that's the bottom line.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Technically, he can ... and apparently he has. When he does so, though, he's not telling the truth.
And that makes him ...
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the sort of person who would insist that a Microsoft Word document was produced on a typewriter, and a TXANG base, in 1971.
Where I come from, we call those folks "liars".
"Maggot!!" seems to come to mind...and Danny Boy never made it past the maggot phase...to this day.