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Making the Corps 168: At night [...] other members of 3806 whisper that the young recruit should be given a secret ‘blanket party’—that is, wrapped in a blanket and beaten with soap bars in socks.at blanket, n.
Making the Corps 168: At night [...] other members of 3806 whisper that the young recruit should be given a secret ‘blanket party’—that is, wrapped in a blanket and beaten with soap bars in socks. Making the Corps 87: ‘You were probably some big jock in high school. Well, you ain’t crap now’.at crap, n.1
Making the Corps 195: [A]s Marines they could address one another as ‘devildog’.at devil dogs (n.) under devil, n.
Making the Corps 21: [T]he infantry squad [...] sitting bored in a tent, reading dirty magazines, and grousing about its cold rations.at dirty, adj.
Making the Corps 239: ‘[T]his freak corporal who cut up live turtles in the swamp’.at freak, adj.
Making the Corps 131: ‘He was just a nasty little asshole. [. . . ] [H]e was going to try to fry the drill instructors, say they hit him’.at fry, v.
Making the Corps 54: All three men [. . .] sport ‘high and tight’ haircuts—shaved on the sides, a brush cut on top.at high and tight (n.) under high, adj.1
Making the Corps 154: ‘We stuck up for each other after that,’ Prish says. ‘He’s really just a straight-up homey-g thug.’ He means that as praise.at homey, n.1
Making the Corps 124: Two huge red pennants flutter from flagpoles at either end of the line of targets, indicating to the world that the range is ‘hot’—that is, has live firing going on .at hot, adj.
Making the Corps 266: ‘We’ve got a lot of little fires to put out in the world [...] We sit on ships close to hot spots and, if the president deems it necessary, we go in’ .at hot spot, n.
Making the Corps 119: ‘The time is now to walk with God, not to wait until it’s all hunky-dory and peaches and cream’.at peaches, adj.
Making the Corps 113: Recruit Shelton, still pumped, employs a powerful uppercut home-run swing to the kid’s stomach.at pumped, adj.
Making the Corps 68: ‘There’s an old saying in the Marine Corps that “stuff rolls downhill,”’ he begins. He actually means ‘shit rolls downhill,’ but neither he nor the other DIs in this platoon will use much profanity with the recruits.at shit rolls downhill under shit, n.
Making the Corps 27: [H]is big flat campaign hat—drill instructors hate it when tourists call it a Smokey the Bear hat.at Smokey the Bear hat (n.) under Smokey, n.
Making the Corps 170: [T]hey don’t believe the stories he tells them about his father being a sergeant major in the Marine Corps and various other stretchers.at stretcher, n.
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