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I'm 22 and have not woken up since.

Does this mean we're all just a part of your dream?

but Marine recruiters only get credit for those who actually graduate boot camp.

You and your RSS have a monthly DEP and monthly ship quota. If you have a washout who doesn't graduate, he has to be replaced. But that is simply added to your next month's ship quota. So if you had a HS senior shipper wash out at Parris Island in August, you'd have to get a direct ship (no DEP, straight to recruit training) the next month to make up for it. Which is why your winter platoons are your "waiver platoons." They are platoons full of HS graduate direct shippers with significant paperwork.

Lying about enlistment qualifications is an openly accepted part of doing business everywhere from the recruiters school in San Diego to the monthly mission meetings with the CO. So is coaching applicants to lie at MEPS and at the moment of truth at Parris Island/San Diego. When I reported for duty as an 8411 at my RS, the first thing my RS SgtMaj told me when he found out that I enlisted out of his RS was a joke about my fraudulent enlistment package being on file somewhere in the office. No one cares as it is simply regarded as a cost of doing business.

In the Marine Corps, the general in charge of each recruiting region has command over the Recruiting Stations that process applicants, as well as the recruit depots that train those applicants who are accepted and become recruits. Put simply, the CG level waivers for the types of shitbirds and "leadership challenges" you talk about are signed by the guy responsible for both recruiting and training. Drill Instructors might be going nuts and calling recruiters scumbags, but the guy/gal in charge of both of them doesn't give a shit. Ship that body and make it into a basically trained Marine. If it breaks, send another one into the meat grinder.

But then you'd have to enter America in a way that is unnatural. America is my country and I love her, so I would never to that to her. I tell you what.

I got out in 2008. I spent a lot of time in headquarters commands writing things, and so the Naval Correspondence Manual has had a huge influence on my professional writing.

This influence has endured into my private sector career. Recently, during a conversation with a coworker about why I use Courier New in all writing, I discovered that in 2015 the Naval Correspondence manual changed the standard font from Courier New to Times New Roman.

What do you think about this change? Do you agree that this is representative of the Obama era objective to lower the standards for entry so that gender studies majors and distinguished holders of fine arts degrees won't have to relearn a new standard and can stay with the MLA/APA format they used when writing their screeds theses?