 The most important skill required to be a knowledge drill instructor would be not just knowing the knowledge but being able to get the recruits to be excited about it, to show your passion for the knowledge. People think the drill instructor role is intense all the time in your face, everything like that, but every once in a while you have to quiet down, you have to settle down and explain things to the recruits in a way that they understand. Because there were other Marines in there, right? Yes, sir. Look at me. The drill instructor is never about you. Anything you can do for others, that's what you should be doing. By the lesson I'd like to leave with my recruit before they graduate is that serving in the Marine Corps is never about yourself, it's never about serving yourself. You enlisted in the Marine Corps to serve your country, to serve your family, what have you. Just don't forget that as you move on through the ranks and through the years. Serving is all about, serving in the Marine Corps is all about serving.