Quote Originally Posted by sawleaf
Oh and Maryjanemama, there are plenty of Expert shooting, MP women in the Corps.
What? And give the old man a heart attack? I had no desire to join, anyway. My dad was very old fashioned. He thought that I should wear a dress everyday and that I was to be "seen and not heard". No parties, no swearing, no boys on the phone...he found out I had sex (my loud mouthed mother). He picked the boy up by his ear and arm, drug him from the kitchen through the hall into the foyer and threw him out the front door. I was only allowed to go to school and that was it. Grounded with no priviledges for 3 monthes. His daughter join the Marines? He spent his whole life wishing for a son, and got me. He had no idea what to do with me...I wasn't a boy...so he spent all his time trying to shelter and protect me. He hoped I would find "a good man to take care of me because women shouldn't work." That basically explains my whole childhood and teen years. What was this thread about?