(excerpts from ivan's blog...)

1) the marines want to be the worse enemies anyone

could go to war with - we're like that

2) the marine have only 2 objectives:

win the mission and take care of the people

around you - zero-ed in simplicity

3) the marines never believe in quitting - the tenacity and ethos

4) the marines are a family - fighting alongside people similar to myself

5) the marines have goal before self - humility

i took it from his blog. we need to make our goals plain on tablets

which i figured blog should be fine too. haha.

so thats its the above 5 points are from ivan's blog.

its really cool you know,

we are lean mean fighting machines that all have a place.

we fly in formation, in trust, in faith.

machines are steel; locked in by screws

we are locked in by romance, spice, oil.

machines are programmed for heights

we are programmed for flights - further the better.

machines listen to commands

we listen to heartbeats.

machines evoked out of the brain

we evoked out of the Creator.

machines respond to machines

we respond to God.

we ain't machines... we are much more magnificent than we think we are.