Master Gunnery Sergeant Roger Wiley

When there's a challenge, Master Gunnery Sgt. Roger Wiley is a Marine who is up to it. Since he took over the Military Entrance Processing Station, the total attrition rate dropped tremendously. He initiated a recruit training brief that led to significantly higher quality recruits, ensuring that the most motivated, informed and capable young men and women enter the Corps. In doing so, Wiley reduced the number of erroneous enlistments, cut recruit training attrition, and sliced discrepancies. The training brief he created has been described as "awesome" by his colleagues, and by better qualifying the recruits he ships off to boot camp, he has saved the Marine Corps untold thousands of dollars in training costs. "Just be the professional Marine you are," says Wiley, "and recruit to that caliber." Master Gunnery Sgt. Wiley demonstrates the kind of commitment to excellence that is at the heart of what it is to be a Marine.