Fellow Marine here. It’s quite a regional thing, it seems, since here in SoCal I’m not really seeing this issue. Maybe you should look to nicer weather here in sunny California because the schools seem more military-friendly :)
Did anyone with just one RC section have passages on Occam’s razor, a town called Brooklyn in Illinois, and one about the shift from marine to land based diet in Neolithic times? Or was this experimental
Jack misinterpreted Mary's use of "our" as referring to his business–that of a local merchant. Mary is using "our" to describe the outdoor advertising business, which would of course be dependent on billboards.