Terminal Lance
Satirical comic strip about U.S. Marine Corps life / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Terminal Lance is a comic strip and website created in 2010 by Maximilian Uriarte that satirizes United States Marine Corps life. Uriarte publishes the strip in the Marine Corps Times newspaper and on his own website, TerminalLance.com. The name is a slang term for a Marine who finishes an enlistment (i.e. terminates) as a lance corporal. The system for advancement, "cutting scores" which would lead to corporal, sergeant, and higher, is heavily dependent on career-field and seniority—this leads to a large number of "terminal lances" in infantry specialties who might, in another field, have advanced to NCO rank.[1][2] According to Uriarte, he created the strip "to poke fun at the Marine Corps, much like Gunny Wolf in Charles F. Wolf Jr.'s old Sempertoons, but with an emphasis on the grunt Lance Corporal’s point of view."[3]
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Author(s) | Maximilian Uriarte |
Website | terminallance |
Current status/schedule | Active |
Launch date | January 5, 2010 |
Publisher(s) | Self-Published |
Genre(s) | Humor, Satire, Military |