{"id":56553,"date":"2014-11-19T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56553"},"modified":"2014-11-19T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:06:33","slug":"dont-call-me-a-pog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56553","title":{"rendered":"“Don’t call me a POG”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Marine Corps Times<\/a>, they published an article about meany infantrymen calling support troops POGs (Personnel Other than Grunts). <\/p>\n

While at the barracks aboard Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, one weekend, a group of [Gunnery Sgt. Hector Vicente’s] junior Marines from the entry-level school for personnel administration stopped by on their way to the beach.<\/p>\n

“Gunny, we were out last night at Buffalo Wild Wings and some Marines walked by and called us ‘boots’ and ‘POGs,'” one private first class said. “Why would a fellow Marine do that?”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t the name-calling itself that bothered Vicente, who, as a career support Marine, knew that the terms were often thrown around within the Corps as part of its coarse culture. It was the fact that one group of Marines was trying to belittle and humiliate another group of Marines in public.<\/p>\n

“It truly saddens me when a group of PFCs ask me why they would be called ‘boot’ and ‘POG’ while they are dining at a restaurant,” Vicente said. “That act to me is truly disheartening.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, you know, they were going to administrative school. And, you know if it had been Army guys at the table, the clerks would have busted on them for not being Marines. It’s been going on since folks started putting on uniforms. Witness a cut from Audie Murphy’s “To Hell and Back” when some infantrymen met some Air Corps folks;<\/p>\n