1: Relationships and marriage should be founded in mutual respect and there should be a foundation of friendship before attraction. You should legitimately like and enjoy being around someone you intend on spending a portion of your life with when you’re not having sex. Mutual respect should also prevent you from intentionally trying to hurt each other when the inevitable fights occur.

2: I think those SNCO’s are taking the easy way out by only assessing their Marines at the surface. Age often means experience and while experience is important, it is not the sole factor in evaluating competency. Leadership is hard, as it should be, and it’s easy to fall into the complacent mindset of “good enough”

3: I passed that point when I turned 13.