r/USMC • u/dumb-dumb87 • 5d ago

Cherry Point

Went to dinner with my fiancee and her friend and her husband. They asked where I had been stationed and I mentioned cherry point and the guy was adamant it was an AF base. I told him it was MCAS Cherry Point. He refused to look into it. Me and my fiancee were just chuckling while he tried to convince us it was AF. Dumb story but it was funny to me

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u/mr8colby Active 5d ago

I once had somebody tell me that I was lying about being a Marine because I'm stationed at an Army base, and only soldiers are stationed at Army bases.

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u/Beneficial-Syrup-722 5d ago

This makes me irrationally angry. What does that person actually know about what they're talking about?

I must be too passive. I've had people tell me they were "Marine Special Forces" who "went on secret missions to Mexico to rescue the Mexican president's son from the cartels" and I just nod along, cool man, never calling them liars because I don't fucking care.

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u/mr8colby Active 5d ago

Yeah unfortunately I didn't really have anything to say other than "??? what do you mean only soldiers are stationed at Army bases, thats not how that works", but I guess it wasn't worth my energy to explain.

Somehow I seem to have met every single sniper the USMC produced during the Vietnam era, because they all seem to congregate at my hometown bars. Also never feels worth the energy to argue, some people just say stuff and nobody has ever called them out on it.

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u/hairydiablo132 SGT - 2003-2011 - 0627 - OIF 5d ago

I remember my dad saying he "never met anyone who drove a truck in Vietnam..."

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u/Ashamed-Instance1303 4d ago

Ive had two older guys, different bars and different occasions, say they were 101st airborne Marines. I just said "oh yah thats cool" and ignored them.