Speaking of Marines I just thought of another funny story.

I was in Tech School in Wichita Falls, TX. We were marching to chow or back to class from chow... can't remember which now. Our Flight Leader or "red rope" was an A1C/E-3. We're marching along when this...must've been a Squad best I can remember... weren't many of them... of Marines cuts in front of us so blatently that there was nearly a pile up with them. There was a LCpl marching them. Man, this guy had some ego... Anyway, he gets all kinds of in-the-face of our red rope...yelling, spit flinging yada yada. The red rope is angry now. Not only was it OBVIOUSLY the LCpl's fault, but he's trying to blame him. Well, the A1C starts yelling back and address him as "Private." Man, the LCpl became so angry I thought he was gonna pass out. These guys start squaring off... there's gonna be a fight. The whole time we're all looking straight ahead, at attention... seeing it all in the perfrial vision... waiting for the Marines to break formation and jump in... just waiting. Ugly day. A USAF TSgt/E-6 ended up on the scene pretty quickly and broke it all up. I think he was actually kind of proud of the red rope... but couldn't express it of course. Everybody got yelled at and off we went. No harm; no foul.