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  • Dean, an ex-marine, combat veteran, known as the toughest linesmen on the "GI-Bill Squad," -- the toughest football team in Harvard University's history -- wasn't tough enough to field that question.

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2011

  • Dean, an ex-marine, combat veteran, known as the toughest linesmen on the "GI-Bill Squad," -- the toughest football team in Harvard University's history -- wasn't tough enough to field that question.

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2011

  • The call went to Stephen Kappes, the ambitious ex-marine who was the deputy director of clandestine operations.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • Dean, an ex-marine, combat veteran, known as the toughest linesmen on the "GI-Bill Squad," -- the toughest football team in Harvard University's history -- wasn't tough enough to field that question.

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2011

  • The latest addition to her crew of avatar pilots is paraplegic ex-marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who at the last minute is hired to replace his recently deceased twin brother.

    Movie Review: Avatar 2009

  • With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis in the Japanese FBI, and Dox, the ex-marine sniper whose good ol 'boy persona masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them forever.

    The Last Assassin by Barry Eisler: Book summary 2010

  • The show enters that world via a military-contracting firm called High Star, headed by charismatic ex-marine Howard T. Erickson John Goodman.

    On the Set: Damages Lives to Fight Another Case 2011

  • Great idea, but; teachers, don't do it in the classroom because here in Texas it is called "Corporal punishment". signed: ex-marine, ex-teacher.

    Military mom style - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • The latest addition to her crew of avatar pilots is paraplegic ex-marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who at the last minute is hired to replace his recently deceased twin brother.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • The call went to Stephen Kappes, the ambitious ex-marine who was the deputy director of clandestine operations.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

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