The part that annoys me is using Marines or any service members as damn decoration. Here we have two perfectly good combat-trained enlisted Marines being used as glorified doormen. Complete waste. If I were Commandant I would have pulled every single Marine being used as decoration and put them back into operational units.
When I was an NCO back in the late '60s our CO asked us to get our Dress Blues out and support an event for the Daughters of the American Revolution in Anaheim California. We showed up and they used us to park cars and to escort the old biddies to their seats. We weren't served dinner or even offered a break to go eat, so I bought McDonalds for all of my team. When I got back to our unit the next morning, I reported what happened to my CO and he immediately called the DAR and thundered at the lady on the phone that he would NEVER send Marines to support another of their events.
We have enough trouble as it is to get the quality people we need to conduct the defense of this country without trivializing them in stupid positions to elevate the allegedly superior.
The Clintons did stuff like that. Tried to use Marines as waiters.
The Marine Commandant said Marines serve the country, not dinner and ordered them all out.