i was calling jimmy perco for a good year after the show i think. >> maybe more. >> we were all in character all knew what we had to portray in these men and we knew we had to do it justice. so there wasn't any laziness. there wasn't any whining, everybody dug deep and it was hard. from what i've heard, actor boot camp can be a little easygoing. dale dye who is a dear, dear friend of ours now -- trust me, he wasn't then. he put us through our paces. i don't remember the last time i ran a mile and all of a sudden i'm asked to run five miles every morning. and back in those days, we were all a little younger, perhaps into smoking or drinking, so probably weren't the fittest we could have been. by god, they whipped us into shape pretty quickly. also what it did for me was put me in a mental space and put me in a space of bonding the guys. i've said this from day one of the shoot, genius stroke that the producers made of our show is putting us in a boot camp because it made us tight, and it made us a unit. speaking to servicemen and women around the world since, that's one common in that case to