General Orders for the Company Officer

摘要

At 17 years old, high school completed, full of the worldly knowledge that all teenagers possess, I joined the United States Marine Corps. My parents signed me over to the federal government with little hesitation, although I should have been more suspicious of what awaited me when my mother began crying (and not the normal, happy-he's-out-of-the-house type of crying I was sort of expecting). A few months later, hell began as a Marine sergeant corralled a group of us as we sauntered off the flight in San Diego.