"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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"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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"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."

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"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."

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"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."

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"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."

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"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."

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"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."

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"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."

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"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."

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