![]() ![]() It is taught at West Point and Annapolis and at the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico. GATES OF FIRE is on the Commandant of the Marine Corps' Reading list. ![]() troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since the first days of the invasions. Dog-eared paperbacks of this tale of the ancient Spartans have circulated throughout platoons of U.S. ![]() "No matter what happens to me for the rest of my life, no one can ever send me back to this freakin' place again."įorty years later, to my surprise and gratification, I am far more closely bound to the young men of the Marine Corps and to all other dirt-eating, ground-pounding outfits than I could ever have imagined. In January of 1966, when I was on the bus leaving Parris Island as a freshly-minted Marine, I looked back and thought there was at least one good thing about this departure. ![]() I graduated from Duke University in 1965. I was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943 to a Navy father and mother. ![]()
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