US Infantry gotta stick together! via Gruntworks.

From a Gruntworks contributor. Us Infantry gotta stick together! Thanks JB.

So, there I was, in NYC in 2004. Freshly off the plane from my first Combat Tour n the Ghan enjoying a long weekend at home. Full of Piss and Vinegar from surviving ten months in the desert long before FOB's in that shit hole.
So, I decide to head into a random bar after my friends from back home decided to call it a night. Mind you, full of Piss and Vinegar as well as several shots and mugs at this point. Wearing my Combat Infantry hat, as well as a 10th Mountain Division shirt.
I'm pretty sure it was Fleet Week, or maybe there was just a ship docked in the harbor. But, I didn't know that at the time, and when I walked in, was confronted by a whole bar full of seamen in their pretty little white suits getting hammered.
Well, I squeezed into the bar and ordered myself a mug of Sam Adams and continued my drinking from earlier. Would have been a fine drunken night of stumbling around the City, but then some of the squids started talking shit.
Piss and Vinegar kicked in, so I started talking shit back. After a few exchanges things started to get heated. I figured this was going to be a fair fight, and I can take a squid one on one no problem, right?
Well, as he stands in front of me, three of his buddies decide their going to help teach this Army grunt a lesson. At this point, I know I'm about to get my ass beat, but I'm determined to take at least two of these squids to the hospital with me.
We're getting ready to duke it out, this loud voice cuts in over the bar noise:
"Back off Squids! He's with us!"
This big old Gunny (Pretty sure it was a Gunny, had E-7 stripes on his greens) pushes between the squids and drags me to the little table with him and a couple other dudes. Grabs a beer from the Bar and slams it on the table in front of me.
"Us Infantry got to stick together."
The rest of the night is a blur. I don't even know how I got back home that night.
If I ever meet those Marine Grunts again, the next round is on me.