Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.
Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.
It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured.
Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.
The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.