I was talking to a guy at party last night (former Army, I believe) and we got to the subject of American POWs in Iraq. He noted that you never hear about Marines being held hostage or taken prisoner, but that apparently a couple of hundred Army soldiers have been captured by the enemy in Iraq. He argued that it was because the Marines go down fighting, refusing to let the enemy have the satisfaction of taking prisoners. The one time Marines were taken prisoner, they were later found dead, which he argued was a sign that they were too big a pain in the ass to keep as prisoners as they were likely fighting the whole time.
Marines rock.
