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By ADAM HAWSE
29jun03
Four American marines have given an insight into how they infiltrated the inner-sanctum of the NSW Blues to help inspire Andrew Johns' team to a series victory over Queensland.
First Sergeant Charles Hessler and Gunnery Sergeants Rick Andersen, Daniel Boening and Erik Jackson say their lives have been changed after a chance meeting with Blues coach Phil Gould and assistant Laurie Daley last Sunday night at an eastern suburbs bar.
It began an amazing four days for both parties.
The quartet, in Sydney on a stopover from the war in Iraq, gave the Blues a motivational talk on Tuesday night.
So moved were the players, Gould insisted the marines join him on the coaching bench with 10 minutes left in the game.
He also said the players would not do their victory lap in front of the 80,000 at Telstra Stadium without them.
They even joined in the singing of the team song.
The Americans, who shipped out of Sydney aboard the Pearl Harbor on Friday morning, were referred to as NSW's "secret weapons".
"If they are calling us secret weapons, then those guys are the weapons of mass destruction!" Hessler, proudly wearing an autographed NSW jersey, joked.
The quartet were invited to talk to the players when it was realised they could convey the message Gould and Daley had been trying to deliver themselves. A message about courage and never giving up.
The men didn't think twice and for the next two days read up on rugby league, a sport which barely registers on the radar in the US.
Not wanting to crowd the room with outsiders, only Hessler and Andersen delivered the talk on the Tuesday night.
"Sometimes the best people to talk to the team aren't necessarily the best speakers, they're people that have been there and been inspiring in some way," explained Daley.