An email apocalypse that swept across the Marine Corps earlier this year now has a legendary ending, cementing its place in Corps lore.

It all began in April, innocently enough, when Marine Cpl. Andrew Hundley, a cyberspace warfare operator, completed his corporal’s course, an important but routine series of classes that Marines must take as they move up in rank.

But then someone tasked with the incredibly ordinary and minor office chore of emailing a copy of Hundley’s training certificate made a big boo boo.

You see where this is going.

In addressing the email, the sender picked a Marine Corps-wide distribution list, sending Hundley’s paperwork to hundreds and perhaps thousands of inboxes across the globe. The countless subsequent responses of recipients asking to be taken off the lis

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