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[quote="O'Bruadair"]This reminds me of a story related by a “jar-head” friend. On his first full day of boot camp (this was early 70’s) he was sent to a class called “The History and Tradition of the Marine Corp) The DI mounted the stage and bellowed “Men, the only time in history that the Marine Corp has retreated was at First Manassas”. My friend raised his hand and asked “Sergeant was that the Confederate Marines or the yankee Marines?” The DI spoke not a word. He just stepped from behind his podium marched briskly down the row of seats to my friend, drew back his meaty fist and hit him right between the eyes. My friend said that when he woke up he was sprawled in the middle of the floor and the DI was back behind the podium continuing his lecture. My friend never got an answer to his question but that was the last one he asked in boot camp!

BTW It was the [b]yankee Marines[/b]. They drug two boat howitzers, by hand, all the way from the Potomac but they didn’t have to drag them back! (hard to run when you are pulling a howitzer!)[/quote]

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