When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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.
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.
I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.
The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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