Once a Marine, always a Marine, and the ribbons on his Navy officer's uniform will always give proof of that,speedsix wrote:jimlongley wrote:I didn't see any goofup, everything was explained in the article.speedsix wrote:...I'm real proud of him, but an Ensign is not a Marine, that's a Navy rank...researching the goofup...
...here's the answer...
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/06/n ... y-062511w/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
...sounds like a real go-getter...glad he's on our side!!!
..took more than the two sentences in the original article to make me understand how, why, which they're talkin' about a Marine and then referring to him as an ensign...they didn't have all those fancy abbrevuationable organizations when I was a Marine...the second link told what happened so that even I understood what happened...things are harder here at the nursing home...
I was nominated for one of those programs when I was in the Navy in '69, but I turned them down based on the additional commitment required and I had just gotten engaged to the woman who would be my wife for 23 years.