LTC Steven Murray Roundtable Discussion 3-13-24

These guys consider themselves grunts

grunt (Urban Dictionary)
A front-line soldier.
A grunt is anyone, regardless of rank, who digs his or her own foxhole, performs front-line tasks, handles live weapons and ordnance and duties in combat zone and risks his or her life.
The opposite of grunt is REMF (Rear-Echelon Motherfucker), a desk job military person off the combat zone. If the definition of a grunt is one who digs his own foxhole, a REMF is anyone who sleeps between clean sheets.
To be a grunt in the Marines is the pinnacle of macho image