Why do Marines roll their sleeves up the wrong way?

[chris211]

Why don't they teach ya'll how to roll your sleeves up right?


Going to bed, flame away!!

 

[RetArmySgt]

Muscle
Are
Required
Intelligence
Not
Expected

They have to keep it simple

 

[winchster]

Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. The few good men...

US Navy Corpsmen

 

[BrenGunner]

Sucks we cant roll them anymore.... Spent alot of time in the past making them look good.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/marines-will-no-longer-allow-rolled-up-sleeves/

 

[TXDARKHORSE361]

Sucks we cant roll them anymore.... Spent alot of time in the past making them look good.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/marines-will-no-longer-allow-rolled-up-sleeves/

Agreed, used to spend a lot of time working on them, they did away with it right before I got out. Not sure what you guys mean by "wrong way" pretty sure pushing your sleeves up and wearing your cammies out in town is "the wrong way", just looks tacky as hell to see a Soldier or Airman (or Sailor here) walking around in their bdu's, acu's, or whatever they're called now and days. Got nothing but love and respect for my brothers and sisters in the other branches but if you really wanna wear a uniform out in public put on one of the service uniforms, jmho.

 

[TXDARKHORSE361]

Muscle
Are
Required
Intelligence
Not
Expected

They have to keep it simple

Ain't
Ready for
Marines
Yet

 

[chris211]

Ain't
Ready for
Marines
Yet

Ouch! But good one.

Really now! You can't roll the sleeve anymore at all?

By wrong I mean, in the Army we also spent awhile getting them rolled, but the last fold was back over with the BDU Woodland/Chocolate chip, so you did not see the backside of the material.

All in all, I was just funnin', sorta

 

[TXDARKHORSE361]

Ouch! But good one.

Really now! You can't roll the sleeve anymore at all?

By wrong I mean, in the Army we also spent awhile getting them rolled, but the last fold was back over with the BDU Woodland/Chocolate chip, so you did not see the backside of the material.

All in all, I was just funnin', sorta

Good natured ribbing, I ain't butt hurt.

 

[chris211]

Talk about ribbing man, at Fort Leonard Wood, MO., (AKA Fort Lost in the Woods, Missery) You have a mix of Army, Air Force and Marines in for engineering. Between the Army and Marines, those poor Airman never got to sleep in late.

 

[Dredge]

The best slam I ever hear was from a retired Air Force dude.... He was 70 something years old and had been Army Air Corps.
He had his "Retired Air Force" hat on, I told him I am a former Marine and we had a few hits back and forth.....
He then rattles off....... "I tried to join the Marines but they wouldn't let me....because my Mom and Dad knew each other!"
That was the best one I had ever heard. His wife then jabbed him in the ribs and told him not to tell that one anymore.....
That was funny!

 

[BrenGunner]

The best slam I ever hear was from a retired Air Force dude.... He was 70 something years old and had been Army Air Corps.
He had his "Retired Air Force" hat on, I told him I am a former Marine and we had a few hits back and forth.....
He then rattles off....... "I tried to join the Marines but they wouldn't let me....because my Mom and Dad knew each other!"
That was the best one I had ever heard. His wife then jabbed him in the ribs and told him not to tell that one anymore.....
That was funny!

Lol, Pretty good one.

 

[lalonguecarabine]

Oh. We rolled them the right way.
And you were always welcomed to stroll up to any of us and tell us how wrong we were.

Go ahead.
Step a little closer.
We're not gonna hurtcha...

 

[TXDARKHORSE361]

Oh. We rolled them the right way.
And you were always welcomed to stroll up to any of us and tell us how wrong we were.

Go ahead.
Step a little closer.
We're not gonna hurtcha...

Nah we won't we'll just show take them in the back for a demonstration

 

[ROGER4314]

.because my Mom and Dad knew each other!"

I love that! My gut hurts from laughing!

I don't guess you know that the rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas is pretty strong. The best one I heard was:

"Texans? Hell if it wasn't for Mexican whores and Oklahoma cowboys, there wouldn't be any Texans!"

Just sayin............snicker

Flash

 

[lalonguecarabine]

Nah we won't we'll just show take them in the back for a demonstration

Just like I always used to say: "I'll even let you sucker punch me and then run like hell. ...I'll give you a 499 yard head start."

 

[RetArmySgt]

US Armry bacwards.

Yes
My
Retared
Ass

Signed
Up

Forwards

Uncle
Sam

Aint
Released
Me
Yet

(but not in my case im out lol)

 

[RetArmySgt]

What he means by the wrong way is this.
Army

 

[RetArmySgt]

Marine

The difference is that in the Army we make sure that the out side of the sleeve is showing not the inside.

 

[Jeff B]

View attachment 15187 Marine

The difference is that in the Army we make sure that the out side of the sleeve is showing not the inside.

It was a long time ago, but III Corps used to roll 'em up the same as the Marines. General Ulmer (Corps Commander) supposedly said that his troops had better things to do than spend 10 minutes folding their sleeves.

IIRC, we changed Corps Cdrs and went back to the standard folding drill.

Jeff B.

 

[BrenGunner]

LOL I rembemer when I was at MEPS the Marine office had this...