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BK: How did you develop that management style? I mean, that's a management style.

DI: I don't know what you call it. I just wanted to go home. I wanted to stay alive. [Laughs]

BK: Did anybody use those techniques, Captain Crowley or anybody else that you had worked with?

DI: I don't know. All I know is that after every battle, you let the men out. We have a weekend pass or something like that, and what I always did was I stayed back. I let all of them go and I would tell them, "Go out and do anything you want. Get drunk, have a good time, but you be back here within twenty-four hours, not for three days -- twenty-four hours. Just don't kill someone that's all or violate the laws." And so my platoon would come back after twelve hours of absolute chaotic fun and come back loaded and drunk, but we trained so that when we got back into combat two or three days later, we were full, fresh, trained, ready to go, alert, no hangovers. And when you lead a platoon of that caliber, you're in good shape.

TI: Wonderful.

DI: They are alert. I wanted to get home. It's that simple. [Laughs]

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