Veterans slam J.D. Vance for disregarding a mess hall rule 'Marines learn on day 1'

[marble falls]

25. We'd pop our tops just to avoid saluting some of those JGs and Ensigns. One morning though ...

... a good friend of mine and I were walking Main Side at Great Lakes on our way to chow at Snipe's Castle, when Bannon (not that one) said, "Watch this!"

There was an Ensign riding a bicycle toward us on the road, one-handed with a briefcase in the other hand.

Bannon stepped off the curb and gave one smart salute and held it, the Ensign returned it and crashed the bike.

Good times. We loved Admiral Zumwalt.


Later that summer they stopped processing minor pot possession because if they pushed chargers on them all, it would have ended up delaying sending swabbies to WestPac for the war by months.