Ollie North hates them with a passion ~ must have been one of them got in the Marine Corps with him and out shown him or something.
We had one of the 100,000 fellows in our unit in Germany. They kept him occupied sweeping floors, but he didn't think that was right and demanded to be sent to the Nam. Our unit had mostly Namvets in it so they all tried to talk him out of it with the old 'You ain't missin' anything" story.
He persisted and wrote his Senators and Representative. They pressured DOD and he was run through the Sergeants school at Benning, which he passed with flying colors, and then he was sent on to Nam where he seemed to do quite well. Last time i heard anything about him he was an SFC. Got his picture in a full page spread in a newsmagazine.
He was in the Army. Would probably have failed a full dress inspection in the Marines though, and some officer like North would have put him in the guardhouse.
There were real Forrest Gumps in the world in those days ~ i met one ~ and when the kids said "Dad you gotta' see this movie ~ it is utterly fantastic' I went ~ and there he was.
Like i said somebody thinks he's making an insult at the expense of some brave men who served in somebody else's place. I don't put up with that.
My cousin Earl was one of those. When he got to Vietnam, he found it not to his liking and shot himself in the foot.