CAMP PENDLETON, CA – Marines from the Lone Star State are enraged today after reports emerged indicating that one of their own does not relentlessly announce his Texas heritage to everyone within earshot.

Lance Corporal Stuart G. Shaw, a Rifleman with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, is receiving unfriendly fire after it was revealed that he was a native Texan—something he failed to announce on his own. Shaw, who was born and raised in San Marcos, Texas, says the whole controversy is being blown out of proportion.

“This has been really rough on me and my family,” says the twenty-one year old. “All of my fellow Texans have shut me out. They hiss at me when I walk past. They call me ‘traitor’ and ‘sellout.’ Some have even thrown their empty Shiner bottles at me. I don’t know where all this hate is coming from.”