M-14 Cold Warrior here, USMCR '65-66 61st Rifle Company Lexington, KY. E-1 "retired"

Politely asked to take my drinking habits elsewhere in exchange for an honorable discharge...39 years ago...dang I'm old!!

Yaish, I don't remember the EGA buckle when you were at the Arizona Highland Games or I'd have said "Semper Fi" for sure.

Was brainwashed as a kid. Did sort of a Marine Corps option in the Navy League's Sea Cadets in high school and the Marine Corps option in NROTC in college before drinking my college career away and having to scramble to enlist somewhere before being drafted. Irony of it all was after my discharge I ended up seeing "urban combat" in the MLK riots as a police officer.

Anyhow, if there's any connection between Marines and kilts its gotta be PRIDE. Not that others aren't proud too, just that it comes easy to old Marines. And, I don't suppose many of us care too much for what other folks may think of us or how we choose to dress

Ron