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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 |