Marines

I was in Teaneck, New Jersey today for a real estate conference when I saw an 18-wheeler pass by on the road adjacent the hotel. The entire side of its trailer was illustrated by a giant color photo of a bunch of Marines standing at attention in full dress uniform in what was obviously an official government recruitment ad. But in the vein of how the illustration on a container usually suggests its contents, what I thought of first was that the trailer was packed full of rigid Marines and that the armed forces are really scaling back their troop transport/deployment budget.