Re: OT: sponge burning!

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

Greg Folkert wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:37:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> >> On 02/28/07 14:37, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> > Except that they all come in unskilled.  All the commercials for the
>> >> > Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines talk about joining up and they
>> >> > will
>> >> 
>> >> *Not* the Marines.
>> >> 
>> >> Marines are expected to *want* to serve their country.
>> >> 
>> > Good point.  Of course, they do have the best PR of the US military
>> > services and really do a good job of glamorizing it.
>> 
>> I think word of mouth from ex-Marines is doing more for the Marine Corps
>> than PR money could.
> 
> DO NOT USE THE TERM "ex-Marines" it insults. The correct term is
> "Former-Marines".
> 
> You can take the Marine out of the Marine Corps, but you cannot take the
> Marine Corps out of the Marine.
> 
> Please, take that courtesy for me and the others out there.

I didn't mean it disparagingly, was just saving keystrokes at the time. 
Doh.