We salute this Marine for having a promotion ceremony in the muck

I love the "formation" behind him! Back when I was E&I we'd have promotions on radio towers because that's where the guys worked. This is a little dirtier, but same mindset. You have to respect the devotion.

And "Command" had to suck it up and muddle (Ha!) through to get it done! Hope everyone brought a change of scivvies. By the way; who came up with the word "scivvies"?

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Other service members have selected unique venues and themes for their reenlistment ceremonies. About five soldiers took the oath while inhaling CS fumes inside a gas chamber. Another service member managed to hold his reenlistment ceremony underwater. And yet another involved an Imperial stormtrooper either administering or receiving the oath.

Sometimes, levity can go too far. The Tennessee Air National Guard took great offense in 2018 when a senior noncommissioned officer used a dinosaur sock puppet while reciting the oath during her reenlistment ceremony. The airman was fired and the colonel who led the ceremony was retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

James said he decided to be promoted in the Pig Pond roughly two weeks before the July 1 ceremony. He also said his platoon does not have many sergeants in it, so it’s not often that the Scout Snipers get to hold such a promotion ceremony.

“It’s something that we didn’t have too much of,” James said, “So we just wanted to have our little spin on it and do it our way.”