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mm hmm

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mm .

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Yeah I am a retired

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for sergeant of the United States

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Marine Corps after serving 23 years and

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I am the senior marine instructor at

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desert hospitals , high school , The

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Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers

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Training Corps Program is a program

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that was created back in the 1940s from

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reservists designed to assist in the

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leadership and the growth and

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development of the youth of our nation .

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My favorite part of being instructed

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here is no mas is like when I was in

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the Marine Corps teaching mentoring

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shaping young men and women . The

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favorite part as in the Marine Corps is

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when you see the light come on and the

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things that you've been teaching them

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day in and day out all of a sudden

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correct they understand it and it

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becomes part of who they are and you

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see a transformation and how they carry

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themselves , how they treat other

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people and how they hold their head a

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little higher because they have a sense

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of pride and accomplishment . I think

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any marine retiring marine who

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still has that sense of wanting to

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lead young people , mentor young adults

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and still stay in their uniform . This

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is probably one of the best kept

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secrets and best opportunities for them

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to use the skill sets that they have as

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marines and uh I think they would just

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have a great sense of pride knowing

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that they are helping to develop

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citizens within a community . Thank my

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tours as a drill instructor . You

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always want to give back and then as a

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major of marines you always see that

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young marine , you always wonder what

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could you do to prepare marines in the

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future to be that young marine . And

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that kind of inspired me to one of the

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Marine Corps JR TC . Instructor . How

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this affects me every day though is

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that I know that the future of our

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society is going to have some kids out

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there who have some leadership , some

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determination , some professionalism ,

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some values that they got from an

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instructor somewhere and it has stuck

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with them for the rest of their life .

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Mm hmm .