Balog, you are not describing the MArine Corps I know and love. Either it has changed greatly in the time I have been out, or an unbelieveable number of the f---ups somehow got clustered together where you were.
Well, that is a battalion's worth of incidents over a couple years. 29 Palms seems to make people hate life and be stupid. So do the grunts, but that's another story. Perception has nothing to do with it, everything I mentioned truly happened independent of my opinion.