It's one of the new services we try to tell Marines and their families about before they're deployed.

The kids will be very much alone over the next months with so many Marines deployed, and it's nice for them to have someone like a grandma or grandpa around.

You're never ready, but you'll be as ready as you can be, and you'll have the resources to fall back on.

It's a two-hour crash course in getting ready.

Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.

I don't think either team should have lost. The Hawks are a great team and the Marines are a great team and I congratulate everyone in the organization.