Originally Posted by Plankton

It is yes, but the Marines are more rigid about it than the Army, Navy, and especially the Air Force. Those branches let you keep a smidge of your identity, the Marines wipe your hard drive clean and do a fresh install.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.