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It's like that other abomination "Office Casual." Or what Americans now wear to shop at Wal-Mart. Pierced and tattooed 250-lb teenagers with bare midriffs (both sexes) are OK at Disneyland perhaps (where no sane person of my generatiion would be caught dead anyway), but not in the military.

So how does this rant in any way equate to wearing "cammies" off-base?

I respect the USMC, but stupid crap like this is why I would never join and why I always recommend against friends/acquaintances joining them.

"I respect the USMC, but stupid crap like this is why I would never join and why I always recommend against friends/acquaintances joining them"

The "stupid crap" is called discipline and is one of the major reason the Marine Corps has always been one of the most successful combat organizations in history.

If you consider this type of regulation too tough, you probably aren't suited to be a Marine - so you saved us and yourself the trouble...

Recommend that you try an easier service - that is, if joining any service wouldn't be too tough?

respect the USMC, but stupid crap like this is why I would never join and why I always recommend against friends/acquaintances joining them.

"stupid crap" like this is designed to instill good order and discipline and gets you into the habit of following orders, something which you no doubt would find great difficulty in doing. If your friends/acquaintances have any brains they'll ignore a putz like you.

When you join the military, you leave behind civilian notions. Right now civilian notions of dress and deportment are at a very low point in our history, as a walk through Wal-Mart will easily illustrate.

A military organization cannot leave off-base wear up to individuals, because among them are individuals who were formerly pierced and/or tattoed lower-class mall rats whose idea of dress and deportment com from MTV and gangsta rap. If you're going off base in civilian clothes, they have to be proper civilian clothes. I.E., you ought to look better than civilians you left behind in your former life.

If you're going off base in uniform, it should be in the proper uniform of the day, not a field uniform. Quite simple, really.

We are having a bit of a fashion crisis in this great land, young fellow, and not only among the young. Grown men are walking the streets of our towns looking like the vagrants of their fathers' generation. Compare they way the crowd looks at a ball game today with the crowds in old newsreels.

And speaking of really important crises, who authorized the wearing of those ridiculous patent leather pre-spitshined shoes? Makes an officer look like a tango instructor!