Nothing in my twenty-two years of life could prepare me for what I was about to experience that July night. As I stepped off of the bus at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, SC, I was about to enter one of the most transformative periods in my young life. During the next thirteen weeks, they would systematically change me from a civilian into a disciplined Marine ready to be deployed to battle without hesitation or doubt.
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