The ladies were there.
My daughter was there 7 years ago (now a Staff Sergeant at Little Creek).
The thing that impressed me the most about her and her friends was their bearing around other people.She graduated at 30 from Parris Island after earning several university degrees, but her “presence” around other people was a far cry from the typical graduation gatherings I had attended.
Congrats on your daughter.
One is able to spot the Marines, active or inactive, out of a crowd of service personnel in civilian attire with a very high rate of success.
The first tell here was the grip on the weapon. As in "Go ahead, try to take it away and make my day."