 I don't think you can stand up for Marines that are trying to do their jobs, that are good people. You can't stand up for them too much. That was a grunt, 0-3-11, made sergeant, and wasn't committed to a career. But I wanted to go to college and come back and be an officer, and I never thought it would last this long. Watching young men and women do things that were absolutely crazy to do. And they did it because they were well-trained, because they were capable of doing the jobs they had, and because the brotherhood and the sisterhood was just a phenomenal thing to watch. And I had never quite understood the definition of bravery until I had that experience. The old expression, they don't do it for God, country, they do it for each other, and that's exactly right. One of the worst things about getting promoted as an officer, for sure, is you throw them further and further away from day-to-day contact with young Marines. I will miss the Marines and the Marine Corps to the day I die. I don't know how to do anything but be a Marine. Of course, that old expression, once a Marine, always a Marine. You put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.