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"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates."
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"You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did."
People
"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."
Control
"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year."
Commitment
"When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war."
Money
"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."
People
"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."
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"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."
Time
"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."
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"Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam."
Old
"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."
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"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
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"Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses."
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"Be faithful anywhere you find yourself."
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"I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that."
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Personal Development
"If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies."
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Personal Development
"Make it a promise to be all that you must be. When you dream of reaching the 100th step, take the 99th as the beginning of your journey and you will go beyond the 101st!"
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Personal Development
"Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are."
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Personal Development
"Commitment is a thing of choice, not a thing of force."
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"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
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"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."
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