[redcatcherb412]

The vast majority of people who show up for Basic Training are unfit for military service. That’s why they get sent to Basic Training. Most of them are OK on the far side.

No truer words. I enlisted and went to basic on my 17th birthday. A hopeless classic juvenile delinquent. Of course this was mid 60's when a DI could and would knock you on your keister for being a F-up, if he wouldn't your barracks mates would. After Basic, was a different person entirely.

[Little Bill]

We had Judge in Peobody, Mass, that was the best recruiter the Marine Corps ever has. Turned a lot of people around.