"Being ready is not what matters. What matters……" — Unknown Author

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• I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military… — Smedley Butler
• I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the… — Buzz Aldrin
• If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers… — Nicolas Cage
• The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job. — Drew Carey
• The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you… — Drew Carey
• Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test. — Drew Carey
• I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most… — Willie Aames
• There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying,… — James F. Amos
• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch… — Pamela Anderson
• We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit,… — James L. Jones
• A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the… — Bernard Law Montgomery
• Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power… — Colin Powell

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