If you were to ask me directly if Marines eat crayons, my personal answer would ... Sure, we all pick on each other in the Marine Corps, but not nearly as harshly as we may pick on some of our ...

Within and outside the Marine Corps there is a joke that Marines are “crayon eaters.” At times though, Marines adopt this slogan as a badge of honor, promoting their own anti-intellectualism.

When Frank Manteau joined the Marine Corps in 1995, the "eating crayons" joke didn't exist quite yet. He was used to the more timeless derogatory words, such as "jarhead" and "bullet sponges." ...