The Pink Marine with Greg Cope-White

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Author Greg Cope-White (The Pink Marine) decided to join the United States Marine Corps on a whim. Was serving as a gay Marine, back when it was illegal, a nightmare? Or was spending the summer showering with 70 naked men a master-minded dream? Here's a few links to help you get the most out of Story Worthy- if you're listening on an iPhone, all you need to do is tap the cover art while the show is playing, and you'll see the episode notes, including the links. There is one to subscribe, http://bit.ly/2eSlJZw please do! There's one to our Facebook page and to our email address. We'd love to hear from you, either there, or on our survey at wondery.com/survey. You'll also find some special deals courtesy of our sponsors like Hello Fresh (promo code STORY30) Casper Mattress, and Audible (promo code STORYWORTHY). It's good karma guys!Privacy Policy and California Privacy Notice.

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0:49.6	This is Greg Copwhite, author of the Pink Marine.
0:51.5	You're listening to Storyworthy.
1:03.8	Welcome to the Storyworthy podcast.
1:08.5	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney.
1:26.7	Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannes Finney, and we're coming to you from the Marine Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California.
1:29.5	Now, that place is like a city in and of itself.
1:31.0	Yeah, it's absolutely gigantic.
1:37.4	Last time we were in, my wife and I, my wife and I, I like saying that, we were in, we were driving down there and we stop and we're overlooked in the ocean and there's like a whole encampment
1:41.5	like down like with tents and stuff like on a beach on
1:45.2	the ocean like they were practicing the tent stuff or something yeah that's what they call it the
1:49.9	tent stuff yeah they like that's the official word they call it practice too yeah that's right that's
1:53.7	what they say you can tell i was never in the well you know what i know is that if you do go into
1:57.6	the marines you are either sent to Camp Pendleton or Paris Island, South
2:02.3	Carolina. Those are the two bases. Yeah. Those are the biggest ones, right? Yeah. And we're
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