71 Quotes by R. Lee Ermey

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran’s Administration just wasn’t geared up for it. I know for a fact that it’s getting better and better.

It’s my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day – I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

For me, it’s an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I’m happy to go.

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.

You’d be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

We had times in ’66 and ’67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

I don’t have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.