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2013-10-24 Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama Wants Marines to Wear ‘Girly’ Hats
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2013-10-24 11:39|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 "We're looking for a few good...PC squishes"

They won't need weapons anymore, either, as enemies will die laughing...
Posted by PBMcL 2013-10-24 11:54||   2013-10-24 11:54|| Front Page Top

#2 They look like the French used to wear. Now they will really look like the doorman/umbrella holder/waiter his wife wants them to be.
Posted by 49 Pan 2013-10-24 11:57||   2013-10-24 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 At least they are not pink...yet.
Posted by Thrans Splat1574 2013-10-24 12:45||   2013-10-24 12:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Merciful heavens. The kepi's totally John Wayne compared to this thing. With full respect to Marines present, this looks like something the staff might wear in the toy section of a Japanese department store. Why not skip a generation or two, and some material, and go straight to a fez with a bit of brim. Combo of tilt, tassel, and brim point should cover all nudge nudge wink wink possibilities.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2013-10-24 13:35||   2013-10-24 13:35|| Front Page Top

#5 looks like the hat The Salvation Army wears
Posted by Beavis 2013-10-24 14:21||   2013-10-24 14:21|| Front Page Top

#6 He really hates US military, doesn't he?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-24 14:23||   2013-10-24 14:23|| Front Page Top

#7 The Pat hat (from Sat night Live).
Posted by rjschwarz 2013-10-24 14:25||   2013-10-24 14:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Metrosexual Marines?

Oh lord, I bet the Commandant of the Corps will start allowing Marines to go outdoors "uncovered" as an alternative to these effeminate disasters.

This is almost as bad as the sailor uniforms from Carter's administration.

Well, what do you expect from an administration that wants soldiers to buy their own health insurance and chaplains to perform same sex marriages?
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-10-24 14:30||   2013-10-24 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 It is all about control.
Posted by DarthVader 2013-10-24 14:37||   2013-10-24 14:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Can skirts be far behind?
Posted by CrazyFool 2013-10-24 15:10||   2013-10-24 15:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Looks a lot the hat Sousa wore.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-10-24 15:24||   2013-10-24 15:24|| Front Page Top

#12  Can skirts be far behind

They will be called Kilts -CrazyFool- Kilts.
Posted by Angans Crusose9396 2013-10-24 15:32||   2013-10-24 15:32|| Front Page Top

#13 The poor dears look like effin' meter maids.

POTUS is an international embarrassment.
Posted by Dopey Sinatra 2013-10-24 16:03||   2013-10-24 16:03|| Front Page Top

#14 A family member is talking about opting out after a long career in the marines. They are dealing with more problems than the goofy hat as I understand it.
Posted by JohnQC 2013-10-24 16:08||   2013-10-24 16:08|| Front Page Top

#15 
Some more uniform inspiration for the zero.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-10-24 17:07||   2013-10-24 17:07|| Front Page Top

#16 Actually the cover is a something of a throwback, they got rid of it the first time back before WWI.
Posted by Shipman 2013-10-24 18:41||   2013-10-24 18:41|| Front Page Top

#17 I see Charles DeGaule is back in the news selling the Casablanca style lids to Obummer. (Designed by Reggie Love.)
Posted by Mugsy Glink 2013-10-24 18:47||   2013-10-24 18:47|| Front Page Top

#18 Marines make President Stompyfoot feel less of a man... So he intends to take them down a peg. Out of spite.
Posted by eLarson 2013-10-24 20:32||   2013-10-24 20:32|| Front Page Top

#19 Color me skeptical about this report. I find it extremely unlikely that the POTUS would have the time or inclination to develop an interest in modifying the headgear of military folks.

Next - real soldiers don't really much give a sh%t about garrison headgear. You fight in helmets. Any modification to dress hat dimensions is trivial compared to grown men waring "berets". I've lived through the teeth-gnashing over maroon berets for airborne, then black berets for Rangers, then black berets for everybody (with Rangers switching to tan berets). Any hat with a brim scores higher macho points than a beret.

So - this is stupid argument to pursue. Obama is a walking disaster - but not because he is preocccupied with dressing up his soldier dolls.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2013-10-24 21:31||   2013-10-24 21:31|| Front Page Top

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