Good lord. I never thought of that possibility. He probably could have made my life miserable.

I agree with you about the “ideals” thing. Through my time in the military, I only met one person who actually lived up to the ideas of the corps: Corporal Danny MacGuire. He didn’t have an ignoble bone in his body.

The rest of us, though? We were just a bunch of jarheads ready to go blow stuff up if they told us to.