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* [[Limited Advancement Opportunities]]: The name Terminal Lance refers to Marines whose climb up the rank ladder has stalled at Lance Corporal (just below NCO status), often because the score required for promotion in their career specialty is ridiculously high (or the Corps just plain refuses to accept any new Corporals in that specialty).
** [[Irony]]: Uriarte ''was'' ultimately promoted to Corporal, but didn't find out about it until three months after he left the Corps. In keeping with the tradition of referring to oneself by rank, he calls himself "Terminal Lance Corporal Maximilian Uriarte, USMC".
* [[Literal-Minded]]: [http://terminallance.com/2010/03/23/terminal-lance-23-literally/ Here],[http://terminallance.com/2011/07/19/terminal-lance-133-literally-ii/ here], and [http://terminallance.com/2011/08/26/terminal-lance-143-literally-iii/ here]. Also, as noted in the blog post for [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103212553/http://terminallance.com/2011/08/05/terminal-lance-138-the-reveille-guy/ this one]:
{{quote|"...90% of the time Marines tend to take the term “sound Reveille” a bit more literally than they should. They do, quite literally, yell the word “Reveille” repeatedly until everyone is awake."}}
* [[No Name Given]]: Abe and Garcia are only ever known by their nickname (Abe) or their last name (Garcia).
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