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As the singers recount, he wears big black jeans and combat boots on the beach, comically.

Nancy: We took off the corsets and put on the combat boots.

A shrine of sorts has sprung up outside Fortson’s apartment, where people have left combat boots, bouquets of flowers and an American flag, among other things.

Marines earned a peerless reputation for amphibious assaults across World War II’s Pacific theater, but with China now asserting itself across the Indo-Pacific, the combat boot is on the other foot.

Rejecting the record label’s plan to market her as a teen pop queen, O’Connor had her hair shaved off and wore ripped jeans and combat boots.