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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
there's no reason to be.  but it is true that hard charging troops live fast and hard. the work hard, play hard and so on. |
During a movement overseas once my battalion got stranded due to bad weather. There were no military facilities nearby so each company (about 120 men) was put up in a hotel. Each night was a different hotel (change of scenery I guess), on the third night we checked into our new hotel for the night, changed into our civvies and headed for the hotel restaurant and bar. The sign on the door said "closed". Being the polite young gentlemen we were, we inquired at the desk as to when we could expect the bar to open, at which point we were informed "It won't. The Marines that were here last night ate all the food and drank all the beer."
We took the news graciously and headed into town where we tried to equal their feat at several local establishments