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America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
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R. Lee played the father of a murdered teenage girl in the movie Dead Man Walking, a film about capital punishment that starred Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.
R. Lee had a minor role as a helicopter pilot in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now. He was also a technical advisor for the film.
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