Re: Hog Tooth?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: eevilweevil</div><div class="ubbcode-body">ps...I don't even know if it's even real, </div></div>
I find it odd that you don't even know if it is a real bullet, but yet you called it a Hog Tooth. HOG meaning "Hunter of Gunmen" and Tooth representing teeth, as in teeth to tail ratio if you know anything about the study of combatants and combatant support. In simple terms, the grunt has teeth, and the poag has paper. (Poag is not to be confused with Peace Officers Association of Georgia. It refers to REMF's, and candy bars, and was borrowed from a Chinese word for prostitute that sounds a bit like "pogey" that was used by old China Marines when they traded their tootsie rolls for local ass.) The timing is about right though, 15-17 years. The tradition in the Corps started right about then as the Marines in the STA platoons found themselves doing the 360 dance wearing only PT shorts in front of their BNCO. I have the message saved somewhere. Seems that the Corps was not so happy with the SS branding ceremony, so someone came up with a new symbol. It began, mainly, West Coast but several have taken credit. Chandler's featuring of Parisi's "toof" in one of his books helped to popularize it even more. Lindy makes the mistake of using the logical fallacy of relevance in comparing a crucix to this Marine symbol since one is universal and the other belongs to and is really only accepted as something by a very small and elite group. Although I do agree that if you wear it weevil it really is just a bullet on a string. And I agree with those that say you ought to think about where you where it. Some of the younger guys might want to kick in your taint, while older ones will just see you as a groupie, a movement that has grown immensely. I don't get all that worked up about it, since my idea was to give every graduate a copy of Rifleman Dodd. If it means something to you, wear it. When I go to the range, I usually wear Levi's and the old shirt, maybe a light jacket. No jewelry, except for my wrist chronometer, a gold band that has been on my finger for 21+ years, and a small treble hook that has been stuck in my left nipple since a casting accident when I was 7. But I am never surprised by what I see. Civilians show up in full MarPat, shemaghs, tactical operator ninja suits, you name it, carrying, of course, their sniper kit. Many have not been out of the state.
Voltaire once said, "Illusion is the first of all pleasures," but wearing a bullet on a string is one illusion that is not covered by the "Stolen Valor Act."
All Marine scout sniper school graduates since about 1995 have been receiving one on the day they were graduated. It only matters to who it matters to.
And Shark, Semper Fi...
