On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:04:18 -0500, Diverd4777 wrote
(in message ):

Possibly some lazy reporter ( no byline on the article)
from " WorldNetDaily" executing a " synthesis of News" ;

making some stuff up to meet a deadline..!

( - who's gonna check his facts ?? )


tp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34575


For those who are prior-Army (the only branch I've spent decades in grin),
there's a pretty sure sign that the article was a put-on.

What was this Marine's name?

Oh, yeah, "Corcoran", right?

A standard, traditional military boot has a "smooth" toe of leather that goes
up to the bootlaces.

[This is excluding any real mention of leather/canvas boots.]

The Airborne troops normally are known for a different boot, which has a
leather band about an inch and a-half (I'm guessing at that distance) from
the end of the toe-area and this front part of that boot as well as the back
part have - for decades - been "spitshined".

Although it's pronounced "CORK-rins" or"COCK-rins", the actual name of the
boot (and the company which manufacturers it) is "Corcoran".

Putting
+Corcoran +boots

on google comes up with over 17,000 hits.


It looks to me that "WorldNutDaily" got "taken to the cleaners".



Gray Shockley
-----------------------
Who was a First Sergeant
with the 5th Infantry Div
(Mech), Charlie Company,
105th Military Intelligence
Battalion (CEWI)

CEWI=Combat Electronic Warfare and Intercept
Which means electronics and language people
(who run the jammers and direction finders)
and aren't Mil Intel Super Spooks - these are
people who wear uniforms every day.

g