“I grew up with a lot of guys who quit playing during high school because they were simply tired of getting beat up.”
Then you attended a wuss high school.
My swim coach was a Guadalcanal Marine veteran and my algebra teacher landed in France on D-Day.
A good number of us signed up in the army and Marine Corps.
Semper Fi, FRiend.
God bless you and friends, but the Marines I know are far more disciplined and have far more sense then to comdemn a group of people with a blanket statement.