Tucking In

It is a long honoured but taboo tradition that new recruits to the Boscom Naval Base in Stanley participate in what some would call a hazing ceremony known as Tucking In. The new recruit is brought over the canal from the base to Tucker's landing in Shadetree by their superior(s). From there, the marines make their way to the Shadetree Inn where the new recruit solicits one of the prostitutes of the establishment. This tradition is supposed to prove virility and gusto to your superiors and even female recruits are made to 'Tuck In'.

You're not a real marine til you've bedded one of Madame's finest.

Some find the tradition endearing and uniting, something everyone they work with has done, others find it coercive, immoral, and sexual bullying. It has been said by some to be a form of blackmail used to ensure no marine steps out of line. A dirty secret for your superiors to hold over you, should you step out of line. Plenty find the tradition to be lewd but harmless and would dismiss the blackmail idea on the basis that most people don't care about prostitution. This may be true of some recruits but the practise is not excepted for those who find it inappropriate so to deny its coerciveness is reductive to say the least. The ritual is for new recruits and so is nearly exclusive to young marines and for many of them this is their first sexual experience. The origin is hazy (pun intended) but many claim it stemmed from the phrase 'May no sailor die with their innocence'. Though marines are known to visit the Shadetree Inn outside of 'Tucking In', there is no doubt the tradition has helped in creating or at least popularizing the nicknames 'Fucker's Landing' obviously for Tucker's Landing, and for 'The Captain's Quarters' for the Shadetree Inn. Not to mention the impact it has had on the reputation of the Boscom marines as piggish sea dogs with no manner, which the naval establishment and state of Boscom detest. There has been rumours that Tucking In requires recruits to consume lenalin (tuck). This has happened but is not seen as a true part of the tradition and stems solely from the coincidence in name.