Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
“I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.”
“If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.”