Army & Navy – The Finger Points

She is a private first class in the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. She is a no-nonsense girl who knows exactly why she joined up. When she finished her boot training, Eunice Shepard was ordered to duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She marched into the orderly room, signed up at the sergeant’s desk, then let her gaze ramble coldly over a half-dozen deskbound male Marines, scribbling away at their paper work.

Said Pfc. Shepard: “I joined the Marines to free a man to fight. Who’sleaving?”