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There Is More To Military Units Than Hardware. There Is The Character Of The Unit's Personnel: Their Strengths, Experience, And Knowledge, Their Ability To Get Along And Work Together Amid The Horrors Of The Battlefield. There Is An Almost Undefinable Quality. That Quality Is The Marine Corps' Secret Weapon. Their Edge. That Quality Is Their Ethos.

I Think About The Characters I've Created And Then I Sit Down And Start Typing And See What They Will Do. There's A Lot Of Subconscious Thought That Goes On. It Amazes Me To Find Out, A Few Chapters Later, Why I Put Someone In A Certain Place When I Did. It's Spooky.

Most Things In Here Don't React Well To Bullets.

That's The Ultimate Pornography. There's Nothing More Pornographic Than Glorifying War.

One Thing About Flying That He Never Got Used To Was That No Matter How Awful The Weather Was On The Ground, If You Flew High Enough You Could Always Find The Sun.