Notice the back handed insult, "unlikely Marine."
Hell's Kitchen - Pantano made it out of a tough neighborhood 9/11 reactivated his inner warrior
New York Metro ^ | April 25, 2005 | Steve Fishman

Posted on 04/20/2005 11:05:41 PM PDT by Former Military Chick

Pantano is, in most every way, an unlikely Marine. He was a Manhattan preppy—his mother is a literary agent—who graduated from Horace Mann and New York University. He’d charged into Goldman Sachs, rising quickly, and then into a film company, the Shooting Gallery. If he set his sights on conquest, it seemed to be in the business world, as many ambitious New Yorkers did. And yet, it turned out that what he truly dreamed of was to be a warrior—a real one....Now, a few weeks after arriving in Iraq, Pantano’s platoon had been dispatched to a dusty house along a dirt road near Mahmudiya, in the Sunni triangle. It was an ordinary house—one story, concrete. According to intelligence, it had been taken over by “Ali Baba,” as Pantano’s young Marines called the insurgents."

Just gotta love the political incorrectness of our Hereos!