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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
R. Lee Ermey
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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.
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The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
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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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The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
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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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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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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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