Ronnie and Friends with Pete Swicker

I was very happy to catch up with my Marine Corps’ Officer Candidate School bunk mate on this episode of the podcast.  Pete is a great guy and he, along with Brian Sullivan, helped me get through OCS. The three of us remain close friends to this day.  After receiving his Marine Corps’ commission, Pete served as a Marine Corps officer for many years before moving to the DEA for the rest of his professional career.  Here is the thing that I have always liked about Swick – in the email he sent to me about scheduling this podcast, he puts this on the bottom of his email signature, and I couldn’t love this any more than I do!

“Lieutenant Swicker: You are an overly aggressive, arrogant, and abrasive man, who shows little, to no tact, when dealing with your peers.” .... Company Commander’s final counseling to 2nd Lt. Pete Swicker prior to Marine Corps’ The Basic School (TBS) graduation, April 1985.

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