marines

1. see tell it to the marines.

Example Sentences

What’s it like being gay in the Marines?

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Adapted from Greg Cope White’s memoir “The Pink Marine”— about being gay in the pre-“don’t ask, don’t tell” USMC—it’s an eight-part series with an alarming sense of timing, never mind irony: The “Boots” version of the Corps is willing to make Marines out of a few good psychos, weirdos, racists and boys with crippling father issues.

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At its peak, the Los Angeles deployment included 4,000 federalized California National Guard troops and 700 Marines.

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“As a queer person, I think we have these preconceived notions about hypermasculine worlds and what I viewed the military to be, especially the Marines,” says Heizer, sitting on the rooftop of Netflix’s New York offices last week with co-star Max Parker, who plays stern drill instructor Sgt.

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That sense of what masculinity is weighs not only on Cam but also on the mixed bag of recruits and the officers whose job it is to shape them into “The few, the proud, the Marines,” to quote the iconic ad campaign.

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