MY MARINE SEMINARIAN NOW ON PASTORAL YEAR AT MY FORMER PARISH, SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH IN MACON, PUT ME ONTO SOME VIDEOS ABOUT MARINE OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL: IT SEEMS TO ME THE ETHOS IS VERY CATHOLIC!

Seminarian Will Cook, St. Anne's summer seminarian, put me on to various videos about Marine Officer Candidate School (OCS). This one is a good summary. He is also USMC Captain Will Cook and now US Navy Reserve Officer preparing for the Navy Chaplaincy as well as a priest for the
Diocese of Savannah. He is on pastoral year at my former parish and God willing will return to 3rd Theology at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary next Fall.  Catholic Seminaries would do well to borrow some of the ethos of Marine OCS! We’d see an increase in vocations by men like Captain Will Cook!

What aspects of Catholicism in general and what priests are called to do in "spiritual warfare" that are completely consistent with what this video teaches would-be Marine Officers? I was told when I was at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, the country's oldest seminary of any religion, that the US Naval Academy in Annapolis copied much of the discipline of St. Mary's. Of course this was the pre-Vatican II seminary with a very high standard of discipline and screening of priestly candidates all of which were lost beginning around 1968.