THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, July 4, 1994                   TAG: 9406300008
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

TURNED OFF

I read with amusement how Hillary Rodham Clinton was somewhat turned off by the response she received from a Marine Corps recruiter in 1975.

Although Marine recruiters are tasked with selling the Corps as a career opportunity to potential recruits, a good recruiter will screen out very quickly those who don't have what it takes to become Marines.

If being told that ``you are too old, can't see and you're a woman'' intimidated Mrs. Clinton sufficiently to take her military-service interest elsewhere, I cannot imagine how she would have responded to the ``compliments'' she would have endured from the drill instructor who would have been assigned to her at Officer Candidate School!

NEIL P. McNULTY

Virginia Beach, June 22, 1994 by CNB