“The most lethal, the most aggressive weapon in history is a nineteen year old pissed off Marine’’.
I had forgotten that, yeah it made an impression on me too.
Once had a former Marine tell me the USMC had perfected the art of maintaining discipline while keeping every Marine on the razors edge of pissed off.
A cousin spent 30 years as a Marine.
He said every recruit dreaded the thought of being the one who let down the Legacy of the Corps.
I imagine they’re both right.
I had a boss who had been at Khe Sanh, that Marine firebase up by the DMZ which had the dubious record of being the most heavily bombarded combat base in the entire war.
Anyway after that experience pretty much nothing he encountered afterwards got him rattled. So he was good for dealing with situations that others considered dangerous.