[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net>
> Date: 2004/09/23 Thu PM 07:23:42 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Special skills draft?
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 05:52:43PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > Brian Dunbar wrote:
> > > You're welcome!  Thank you for paying taxes and allowing me to learn 
> > > how to drink, shoot, and cuss like a Marine.  
> > 
> > According to the D.I. in "Full Metal Jacket", all of the sucessfull
> > asssins of U.S. Presidents were ex-Marines. Maybe not a very usefull skill
> > in the U.S., but I'm sure you could market yourself in the "third world". :-)
> 
> Has anyone fact-checked that claim, though?

Are we sure that is what the D.I. said in the movie? I'm not so sure that is exactly what was said, but suspect it might be close enough that it "sounds right".