The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

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.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

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.

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

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