AK: We had two Marines from Recon and two SEALs (they had just finished BUD/S and SEAL school and were getting jump qualified) in my Airborne company.

The Marines kept making barking noises at the SEALs, who would then jump the Marines. The black hat finally had enough of it and got the Marines and the SEALs together and told them if they weren’t at chow, in the rack or the latrine, then they were holding hands until this nonsense ended. That crap with the barking noises stopped right then and there.

My dad and my uncle were both Marines, and both were vets of WWII and Korea. My dad was the reason I joined the Army, which drove him nuts. He finally grudgingly admitted that an Army Ranger was “nearly” equivalent to a Marine, which I thought was decent of him. I didn’t have the heart to tell him which unit in the American military was the most elite (and it ain’t the Marines!). I would say the world, but after working out with the British SAS, I’d be lying out my ass.