My daughter – Navy – says real. Not uncommon. Recruiting is down, they’re taking every warm (and not prohibited) body, plus this pic probably sends warm fuzzies up the legs of the brass.

Many years ago if you as a marine showed up in any public venue with anything out of order other marines, even marines you didn’t know, what call you on the carpet and make you fix whatever was wrong. They even had stand up eating tables for marines so they didn’t put a wrinkle in their uniform by sitting down. They had garters that went from your shirt tails to your socks to keep your socks up and your shirt tucked and tight.

The Scots are manly men .

“They had garters that went from your shirt tails to your socks to keep your socks up and your shirt tucked and tight”

-standard LE practice yet.