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Frozen Sooner
8/13/2006, 03:27 PM
Can you answer a question for me about proper mode of address?

For whatever reason, I've always been under the impression that you didn't call Marines soldiers. Is this correct?

No disrespect inteded whatsoever. I just wanted for my own personal clarification.

jk the sooner fan
8/13/2006, 03:48 PM
correct, you only refer to enlisted members of the US Army as "soldiers"

members of the Corps are always "marine(s)"

and i believe that corpsmen is a reference to a navy medic.....you wouldnt ever refer to a former or current marine as corpsman unless he held that specific job

Frozen Sooner
8/13/2006, 03:49 PM
Thanks, jk. That's what I thought.

Okla-homey
8/13/2006, 05:06 PM
members of the Corps are always "marine(s)"


also, there is no such thing as a "former Marine" ('cept for Lee Harvey Oswald for whom my Leatherneck buds make a specific exception);)

fadada1
8/13/2006, 05:12 PM
ummm, yeah.... i was a squid.

AlbqSooner
8/13/2006, 06:46 PM
I knew two brothers who went into the service in 1967. One went to the marines and became a helicopter pilot. The other went to the Air Force and became a hospital corpsman.

One was referred to as "Airman" and the other was referred to as "Corpsman".

olevetonahill
8/13/2006, 07:22 PM
I was just called grunt . or boonie humper :eek:

KABOOKIE
8/13/2006, 09:02 PM
correct, you only refer to enlisted members of the US Army as "soldiers"

members of the Corps are always "Marine(s)"

and i believe that corpsmen is a reference to a navy medic.....you wouldnt ever refer to a former or current marine as corpsman unless he held that specific job



Fixed. ;)