The Marines' Top General Talks About A Changing Corps
June 4, 20195:00 AM ET
Tom Bowman 2010
Why did Bob Neller join the Marines?
"I needed a job," the top Marine officer says nonchalantly.
He went to Officer Candidate School the summer before his senior year at the University of Virginia with the intention of then going to law school.
"The law school thing didn't work out," he recalls, "and I wanted to get married, and my parents were getting divorced, and I didn't have any money. And the Marine Corps said, 'Hey come do this for 2 1/2 years.' And I said, 'Sure.' "
It stretched to 44 years.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729300525/the-marines-top-general-talks-about-a-changing-corps
