MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.-- (Aug. 19, 2005) -- James Slay wasn’t your typical new recruit, as one of only five percent of Marines who earned the globe and anchor without getting a high school diploma. Most enlisted Marines share the common background of having finished high school and joined the Corps. However, this squad automatic weapon gunner from Deville, La., with the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Anti-Terrorism Battalion, graduated from the Youth Challenge Program sponsored by his local National Guard. Slay demonstrates that many roads can lead to the same destination, when he and his classmates graduated from...