Andy Lowery
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I don't know if you've ever seen that one, but it was, I think to this day, the greatest recruiting video that ever was made by anyone.
And I was sitting in the basement of my girlfriend, who's now my wife of 35 years.
But at the time, my girlfriend and not doing much, working at a TGI Fridays, I think.
And I saw this commercial of this medieval warrior fighting a lava monster.
And he turns around and snaps it up to his shoulder, and it turns into Marine Corps saber, Marine Corps uniform.
And I went, I want to be a Marine.
I don't know what they do.
I don't know how they actually, what they operate on, what they do.
But if something like that lava monster, I've got to go do this.
And so I went down to the Marine Corps recruiting station the next day, and they had the door closed.
And a lot of people know everywhere you see a Marine Corps station, you see a Navy right next door.
And so the Navy was open and I looked in and he said, oh, come on in.
I said, oh, sir, I'm looking for Marines.
And he goes, well, you know, the Navy owns the Marine Corps.
And I went, oh, no kidding.
And he's like, come on in.
I'll tell you about it.
And the rest is history.
I ended up going Navy nuke versus Marine Corps.
And my Marine Corps friends to this day say you made a big mistake that day.