According to CNN, they were in training.
Kat, anyone who has a "soft" job in the military is considered to be not very manly. The Band, mmedical personnel, office workers etc come in for a lot of teasing and sometimes hostility.
The one group that does NOT get any grief are the Fleet Marine Corpsmen. Bad-mouth a "doc" around a combat Marine and he may hand you your head. Incidentally, all Marine Corpsmen come from the Navy. My brother was one.

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