[geeks] CCW for Ohio!

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sat Dec 20 03:25:45 CST 2003


Sat, 13 Dec 2003 @ 02:11 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:17:48AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Fri, 12 Dec 2003 @ 22:18 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:
> > > OK, I stand corrected.  Eleven years in the USMC is worthy of respect.
> > > But he sure *comes across* as a poseur, because his on-screen persona
> > > (for Mail Call, at least) is so over-the-top.
> > 
> > I've met some career sargeants and other hardasses just like him.  Some
> > even *more* over the top than him.
> 
> OK.  I guess I've just met a lot more of the "quietly competent" type.

Yeah, I've seen those too.

Sometimes too, it is an act for the new recruits.

Few of them are quite as mean as they appear to be, but for some it
seems to stick with them even off the base.


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