So I ran the Marine Corps Marathon today...

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sir pball (5,172 posts)

So I ran the Marine Corps Marathon today...

And I have an interesting data point.

I was dropping off my bag, which was "Handled By UPS" (UPS trucks), but the people actually taking the bags were Marines.

I went to drop my bag off, at a table with two Marines, and the chud next to me, muscle-bro with "patriotic" tattoos and wearing a 3% shirt, handed his bag off and then said "Thank you soldier, I'm sorry the crazy liberals don't want you to be paid for this!"

The Marine instantly iced up and said "Thank you SIR…this is a volunteer assignment, we are not paid to be here, SIR."


I'm not sure if the Marine was more pissed off at the implication it was a paid post…or being called Soldier.

FWIW there were probably a thousand Marines at various points along the course and they all gave enthusiastic hand-slaps, and the Lieutenant who gave me my medal offered a perfect salute…before I saluted back and then gave him a good handshake.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220751961

Starting this BS story with "so" means it never happened

[SVPete]

Well, there is such a thing as the Marine Corp Marathon. And UPS or Fedex trucks are often used for gear drop-off and transport to finish areas at large-scale (= tens of thousands of runners and walkers) running events. And those receiving the dropped off stuff are often/usually volunteers.

How much of the actually happened is another matter. It's credible up to the point that a (probably many!) runner dropping off gear thanked a Marine for his or her service. The event celebrates the USMC. But after that, nopers.

BTW, a marathon runner being a "muscle bro" is dubious to me (and I've seen many marathon and ultra-marathon runners). I would not say it's impossible that a marathon runner is also a weightlifter or bodybuilder (I've known at least one), just that runners of such longer distances tend to specialize in the kind of fitness suited to that activity.

[Airwolf]

Well, there is such a thing as the Marine Corp Marathon. And UPS or Fedex trucks are often used for gear drop-off and transport to finish areas at large-scale (= tens of thousands of runners and walkers) running events. And those receiving the dropped off stuff are often/usually volunteers.

How much of the actually happened is another matter. It's credible up to the point that a (probably many!) runner dropping off gear thanked a Marine for his or her service. The event celebrates the USMC. But after that, nopers.

BTW, a marathon runner being a "muscle bro" is dubious to me (and I've seen many marathon and ultra-marathon runners). I would not say it's impossible that a marathon runner is also a weightlifter or bodybuilder (I've known at least one), just that runners of such longer distances tend to specialize in the kind of fitness suited to that activity.

That is how I have seen it in the Army when I was in myself. yeah, we had guys who worked out that could run well but it was us smaller guys that were thing and had almost no body fat that could run the 2 or 4 or 6+ miles we ran on a daily basis.