Marine Corps Tweets Commandant Asking For A Pass, Commandant Tweets His Answer

In honor of #NationalBossDay — because, sure, that’s a holiday — an enterprising, or unsupervised Marine behind the service’s Twitter...

By James Clark | Published Oct 17, 2017 6:14 PM EDT

Military Life

Marine Corps Tweets Commandant Asking For A Pass, Commandant Tweets His Answer

In honor of #NationalBossDay — because, sure, that’s a holiday — an enterprising, or unsupervised Marine behind the service’s Twitter account took the opportunity Oct. 16 to ask the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. Robert Neller, for a favor:

Happy #NationalBossDay @GenRobertNeller

Can we celebrate with a 72? pic.twitter.com/oz9B28vcsb

— U.S. Marines (@USMC) October 16, 2017

So how’d the Corps’ top Marine respond? About as expected:

No. Nice try though.

— David H. Berger (@CMC_MarineCorps) October 16, 2017

Jarheads are probably better off this way, since an impromptu three-day weekend would likely require a vehicle inspection and liberty plan.

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James Clark is the former Deputy Editor of Task & Purpose. He is an Afghanistan War veteran and served in the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent. Contact the author here.