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

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

What is your major malfunction?

A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!

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.

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

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.