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Marine Corps
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Critiques are an important part of training because critical self-analysis, even after success, is essential to improvement. Their purpose is to draw out the lessons of training. As a result, we should conduct critiques immediately after completing training, before memory of the events has faded. Critiques should be held in an atmosphere of open and frank dialogue in which all hands are encouraged to contribute. We learn as much from mistakes as from things done well, so we must be willing to ad
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― Warfighting
― Warfighting
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I want to be judged, but not too harshly. I want you to call me a baby-killer, but not to my face. I want the veteran identity to be surgically extracted from my body, but I want you to buy me a beer so we can talk about the war, and the good times, and the bad times, and the rotten culture of the military, and the feeling of being young and in uniform and sexy and structured and free and a slave. I want you to get me to admit that I miss it.
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― Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan
― Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan
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