My buddy was from Canada. He had a college degree but the Marines wouldn’t let him go through OCS. He tried for force recon. He was qualified, but they didn’t want a Canadian in Force Recon, they said. He wanted 0300 MOS. They gave him 4000 MOS. He did the worst possible in the final class - got a perfect 0 right.
They kept him in 4000 anyhow. He got his fiancée’s name tattooed on his arm. The ink wasn’t dry when he got “Dear John”.
He left the Marines that day. Went back to Canada he did.
