Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Well of course, its' all friendly ribbing. Even when I talk about Marines.

And since you mentioned it, I suppose it is worth mentioning that many, many people serve in an Infantryman capacity in Iraq who never thought they would have to do so. For Tankers and Cav Scouts, we kind of expected it--we knew it was coming. For Artillerymen, Supply Specialists, Cooks, or any number of other strange non-grunty people it was a very big shock to have to come to Iraq and then go on a patrol. Because our Tankfantry (tm) platoon had only 16 people, we had all kinds of wierdos go on missions with us. We even had a cook get a Combat Action Badge before anyone else in my platoon did. Crazy bastard always wanted to be on the Machine Gun, so we called him the Combat Cook.
I guess there were not many complaints about food in your unit.