I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

Semper Fi! MotherFucker!

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.