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Mr. Abby has recently been participating in some sort of "continued training" in military martial arts. The Marine Corps, in all its wisdom, decided a few years ago to redo its hand-to-hand combat program. Part of the new idea is "belts." Because Marines don't have enough to be competitive about.

This actually kind of smells of "Army" to me. I mean, when I think, "meaningless variation in basic uniform accessories" I think Army. Perhaps we'll talk more about this later.

But today we're talking about the Marine Corps and its "belts." Mr. Abby came home today qualified to wear a "gray belt."

Which I took one look at and said, "Oh! That's the Army's new foliage green!"

Pow! His head exploded.

"It's gray!!!!"

Yeah. Whatever. Foliage green.

It amused me, but I bet he's at work right now, standing next to some poor Soldier, comparing his belt to their ACUs.