R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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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 drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
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For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
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The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
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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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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.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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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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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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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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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.
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I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
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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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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.
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There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.