It was hot as hell when I walked in to the very cool feeling Marine recruitment office. As I did the man behind the desk stood and said "Afternoon, sir how can I help you."
I looked at him and smiled and said "I want to join the Marines"
he looked me over and asked "first off how tall are you and how old are you?"
I look at him and said "I'm 6'2" and I'm 18 sir just got out of high school last month."
He smiles and said "Well then why would you want to join, when you look like you should be playing foot ball or something like that?
"well sir, you know of the attack on Mars III bout a week back?" He shifted and then nodded, everyone knew