[Pssssst Leadfoot ...
You didn't get this from me, since its a closely held,
Jarhead-only thing, but the grunts have always been leery of
airedales calling themselves Devil Dogs. {Some of them even
question us calling ourselves Marines.}]

Reminds me that when I spent a year as a Forward Air Controller with a
battalion of the 5th Marines, we "hit the beach" at Vieques, so
overwhelming the enemy that they disappeared without a trace!

We lived in those pyramidal (sp?) tents for a couple of months, and to
raise our standard of living, we two airdales and one naval gunfire
officer scrounged some pallets and laid a floor in our tent, to stay
out of the mud.

One day the battalion S-3 came by, looked in our tent with obvious
disgust, blended with contempt, and said, "You airdales! You always
want to be COMFORTABLE!"

vince norris