Former Marine and Vietnam Era Vet. 1966-72. Currently a professor at a college in New Jersey. My current focus seems to be the Marine Corps mentality. There's not a day that goes by that we do not see the mud, blood, bullets and fire of the past, which is all part of the Marine Corps legacy. From the outside looking in, you could never understand, from the inside looking out, it could never be explained. It's a Marine Corps thing....you just had to be there.