uniforms

[Monte Davis]

Joe Allonby sez:

> Hate to say it Doug, but the Marines always have better uniforms. It's
> one of their best recruiting tools.

And it doesn't work only on testosterone-crazed teenage guys, or require a
buff mesomorph inside. Gary, Indiana, 1943: my mother -- a recent journalism
graduate doing a radio interview show, desperate for any guest who can talk
-- is working her way through the local recruiting officers. When the Women
Marines rep enters the studio, she thinks: hey, SHARP THREADS!

And is soon off to Camp Pendleton as a USWMC public information officer
banging out press releases for hometown papers ("Cpl. Allonby received his
Didn't Fuck Up Yet medal for...") There she meets the ectomorph sergeant --
hey, SHARP PISS CUTTER! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_cap 

...whom she will marry in Honolulu in 1945.

Neither Sasha nor Frenesi, and far too proud ever to wear Army boots.