Thank you for your service.
A few of my close friends went into the Marines right out of high school and I might have joined them had I not had asthma. This was 1989. My one buddy was (and still is) short. He is about 5 foot 6. Day 1 of boot camp the drill instructor is walking down the line of all the recruits standing at attention and screaming at each one. He gave my buddy a dressing down for about 5 minutes about his height. My buddy said he was thinking he made a horrible mistake and this was going to be the worst 12 weeks of his life. Then five guys down the line the drill instructor realized there was a guy in the company with the last name Queer. Suddenly he forgot all about my buddy's height
