I Spent 15 Years Training Marines in Hand-to-Hand Combat — and I Lived by One Rule Above All Others
For fifteen years, I trained Marines in close-quarters combat. I taught discipline, awareness, restraint, and control. But above every technique and every drill, there was one rule I repeated until it became instinct: Never fight unless there is no other choice. Violence, I told them, is not about proving strength. It’s about responsibility. It’s about…
