Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
R. Lee Ermey

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
R. Lee Ermey

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
R. Lee Ermey

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
R. Lee Ermey

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
R. Lee Ermey

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
R. Lee Ermey