He was my company 1st Sgt when I was at Marine Barracks 8th and I.  We used to make fun of his ridiculous West VA accent.  He once bragged that he had his wife on a prepaid phone card because she made too many long distance phone calls!  What a guy!  You think we was hard core, the 1st Sgt he took over for did 2 tours in Nam, had been to Ranger school, and routinely ran 300 PFT even though he was about 300 years old!