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

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.

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.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

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