This post is in honor of the Marine Corps. recent birthday.
A SSgt of Marines relayed this story to a number of us some time ago. Seems he was working in a maintenance type of environment where the guys wore jump-suit type overalls, the type that zip up from the crotch to the neckline. The overalls could be zipped in either direction so if you had it zipped to your neck you could simply unzip from the bottom to use the restroom, leaving the rest zipped up to the neck. He told us of a Marine he was responsible for who liked to goof off and as the story would illustrate, go naked under the overalls. Turns out the SSgt was giving a new female Capt. a tour of the place, and as he was escorting her across the maintenance hanger, he spied the troublemaker coming his way. Knowing the younger Marine was capable of anything, he knew right away what was amiss on the front of the guy’s uniform. There for the new female Capt and the rest of the world to see, with the bottom zipper zipped right up snug to them, holding them in place, was the Marine’s hairy nutsack on display. All you could see was non-descript work overalls and a nutsack. The SSgt luckily intervened before the Cpl. got to the Capt and sent him away, but everyone including the Capt had seen the man’s genitals. The SSgt speculated the young Marine intended to have himself introduced to the Capt in that manner of dress.
What made the SSgt tell that story? Seems a number of Marines there at work with myself and the SSgt had told everyone the story that they themselves had perpetrated. Seems the one young Marine was visiting his married Marine buddy and he and his buddy’s wife were checking out the fish in the fish tank. The married guy had walked over next to the tank and nonchalantly pulled his nuts out of the side of his shorts. As the visiting Marine and the wife were oohing and ahhing over the fish, they happened to look at the end of the tank and there was the guy with his nutsack hanging out for his friend, his wife and his daughter to all see. They thought this was hilarious.
They had a number of other stories, but those are the two I remember. I thought relaying them to everyone here in honor of the Corps birthday was appropriate, especially considering the high and mighty posturing of certain board member.
But I assure that the original story was distorted because an oncoming officer would not be greated in that way and a CORPORAL would never be kept from sight because of his/her unknown behavior. Action would be taken to “correct” the insabordination. But anyway, here is a poem sent out around this time to the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces during a time when their families wish they were home (like mine). The poem is said to be written by a Marine in Okinawa a few years ago. I have also heard his mother wrote it to him. Not sure. Big D (A CO, 19 Oct 1997, MCRD, 1027) The poem is as follows: