All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in the United States Marine Corps

The dreams still come to me — less often than they used to. But 23 years later, they still come. I’m usually on some variation of a training op or reentering boot camp to condition myself for the mission to come. And there’s always a conditioning run. My old buddies are there — Smitty, Hancock, Hensley, Hester and Busby. They look the same as they did 23 years ago —…