Try as you may, you can never defy love.

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

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

I play well with everybody.