Task & Purpose: The Marine Corps’ Ban On Hands In Pockets Centers Around The Possible Misuse Of A Semicolon
We asked the Marine Corps about the order that bans hands in pockets; the answer was revealing.
Anyone who has ever served a day in the Marine Corps knows one of the storied institution’s most sacred rules: Don’t put your hands in your damn pockets.
If as a Marine, you place your hands in your pockets in garrison while in uniform, be prepared to hear a crusty staff noncommissioned officer yell something that includes the words, “Hey Devil Dog,” and the rhetorical question, “What are we back on the block?”
The thought process being that Marines must always present themselves as professionals, and having your hands in your pockets somehow detracts from professionalism. So the Marine Corps made it a rule, and that rule is enforced at Marine Corps bases from Okinawa, Japan, to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
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esprit de cour.
Same reason our bagpipers wore kilts.
It was the same in the Army. In the Airborne anyway.
Growing up my father would always snap at me if he would see me with my hands in my pocket yet he never told me why... Years later while Talking to my mother she told me a story... That back when they had just gotten married she would exercise by walking up n down the gravel road... One day my dad went walking with her. He was walking with his hands in his pockets when he tripped and fell on his face. Ended up with his face all scratched up...
Same with the Air Force.
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