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marines in the formation and he would answer back. be a grown ass man, staff sergeant. taylor would reply exactly. and with that, the marines would go on and enjoy their weekend. it was part of our weekly rituals that we had and this was always the last thing the guys were told before we left for the weekend or the week. back on a friday in february we had a whole group of young marines who had just joined our platoon a few days earlier. all of them were 18 or 19-year-olds, just graduated high school approximately eight months before that. when it came time for taylor to ask his weekly question he pointed to one of our brand-new marines and said as he did every friday, what s my number one rule? lo and behold, this poor young kid did not know the answer as this was his first friday with
this compassionate and caring man was always looking out for others but especially his marines. if some one came to him and asked him a question of a question of him that he didn t know, he would research the answer so that he could give the correct information back and also expected that from his marines. this compassionate caring was put to paper by his lieutenant at the time of his death, lieutenant bird and is as follows. it s called the grown ass man. what is my number one rule, taylor would ask this question to his marines at least once a week and you could always count on it being asked on a friday afternoon before the marines were released for the weekend. and always without fail taylor would point to one of the
can do to help them. if you need help with anything, you need to be mature enough to ask for help. being a grown ass man means if you make a mistake, that you will own up to it and then work to correct it. it means that if you have to think twice about doing something then you probably shouldn t do it. if you make a mistake, it s ok because no one is perfect. we will still stand by you and support you, but a grown ass man learns from his mistakes. but understand this. you as a grown ass man need to understand there is no such thing as a mistake when it comes to morality. you are well aware of what things like lying or stealing that are wrong and those in fact are not mistakes. those are conscious decisions that you as a grown ass man are