Andy Lowery

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.