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All right, people, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I love the corps!
— Apone · Aliens
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker barks at the group to get moving, then piles on cheerful praise for the corps, calling meals banquets, paychecks fortunes and formations parades. The exaggeration plausibly reads as ironic, glowing talk about hardship, with the closing 'I love the corps!' delivered as bravado.
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