Leatherneck Tartan Question...

[Ian.MacAllan]

Well, that's better than General Eisenhower's dismissal of the Marines as "the Navy's police force." . . .

Eisenhower had quite a long career in the Army and spent most of WWII in the Mediterranean and the European theaters. I don't recall at what point in his career he made that statement but I hope he'd not have been so callous if he'd been aware of what the USMC did in the Pacific theater. Unless, of course, he was jealous. Some soldiers are jealous of the respect and renown the Marines have earned.

I intend eventually to buy and wear the USMC tartan, not because I was ever a Marine but because I have great respect and gratitude for what the Corps does in defense of our liberty. Probably the most important lesson I learned as a one-hitch RA was that I am profoundly ill-suited to the critically important work that the armed forces do, and therefore am deeply in the debt of the people who do it.


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