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thedrifter
02-21-07, 11:46 AM
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Ex-Marines [Mackubin Thomas Owens]

Jonah

The accepted term is "former Marine." I know, I know, former Marine and ex-Marine: a distinction without a difference. But the idea is that any Marine who serves honorably never gives up the appellation "Marine" and that "ex-" as opposed to "former" makes it seems that one has given it up. When Jim Jones was commandant, he wanted to drop any distinction between active, reserve, retired, and those who were discharged honorably. I'm not sure that ever caught on but Iraq seems certainly to have erased the distinction between active and reserve.

Ellie
cball
03-16-07, 07:49 PM
Good point,
crate78
03-23-07, 10:41 PM
I always say I'm a Marine Veteran or just plain Marine depending on the circumstances.

When our daughter was watching President Reagan's funeral procession in DC, she had a lapse of memory and commented to a Marine in uniform beside her that her father was an ex-Marine. The Marine in uniform and several others in civilian clothes within earshot corrected her in no uncertain terms. She told them she knew better and it just slipped out. She still laughs about it.

crate
jinelson
03-23-07, 11:01 PM
I will be a Marine until Im a dead Marine!

OORAH!!!

Jim
semperfi170
03-23-07, 11:40 PM
I will be a Marine until Im a dead Marine!

OORAH!!!

Jim

:thumbup: 100% IN AGREEMENT!!!!:flag:
davblay
03-24-07, 01:24 AM
I will be a Marine until Im a dead Marine!

OORAH!!!

Jim
And beyond!! we have an assignment at the pearly gates when we get there to walk our post in a military manner! ;) Somebodys got to do it! RIGHT?
mcconohydm
03-24-07, 11:45 AM
I agree with you when i was at the VA one of the nurses said that I was an ex-marine, I told her there is no such thing, there's new marines, old marine, and dead marines. semper-fi.
usmcmule
03-25-07, 08:32 AM
there's new marines, old marine, and dead marines

HOORAAA

Devil Pups, Devil Dogs and Devil Wolves!!
Tcoach
03-25-07, 09:13 AM
I tell everyone that as a former Marine I can't get into heaven, they don't let us Marine's in, God lets us guard the gate. Even the barracks are on the outside.

Randy Shutter Marine since 1977