Jarhead0321
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Being a Marine you will all see a bit of a pattern here.
"Have had terrific bombardment and attack.... Everything is ok... Can you get hot coffee to me?"
Major John "Johnny the hard" hughes 1BN/6th Marines after withstanding a terrifying CLoud of Gas and artillery attack in Belleau Wood
"The Continental ship Providence, now lying at Boston, is bound on a short cruise, immediately; a few good men are wanted to make up her complement."
(Marine Captain William Jones)
"They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines."
(Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, USMC 1943.)
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning."
(Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa, 21 November 1943.)
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years."
(James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, 23 February 1945.)
"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
(Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC, Marine, 1962.)
"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world."
(General Douglas MacArthur, USA, outskirts of Seoul, 21 September 1950.)
"I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like brilliant, it would really be an under-description of the absolutely superb job they did in breaching the so-called impenetrable barrier. . .Absolutely superb operation, a textbook, and I think it'll be studied for many, many years to come as the way to do it."
(General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 27 February 1991.)
Not sure if this one is on the site I looked and couldnt find it
"The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand."
(Attributed to many sources and popularized by the correspondent Richard Harding Davis during the late nineteenth-century.)
"We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!"
-GEN. JOHN VESSEY, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS
Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
-LT. GEN. LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC
"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!"
-GEN. MARK CLARK, US.ARMY
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!"
-Lt General George Patton, US Army 1945
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!"
-GEN. PERSHING, US.ARMY
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!"
-FERDINAND FOCH
"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" ..............Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945.
"Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings I have ever witnessed. They treat their service as if it were some kind of cult, plastering their emblem on almost everything they own, making themselves up to look like insane fanatics with haircuts ungentlemanly short, worshipping their Commandant almost as if he were a god, and making weird animal noises like a band of savages. They will fight like rabid dogs at the drop of a hat just for the sake of a little action and are the cockiest SOB's I have ever known. Most have the foulest mouths and drink well beyond a man's normal limits. But, their high spirits and sense of brotherhood set them apart and generally speaking the United States Marines I have come in contact with are the most professional soldiers and the finest men I have had the pleasure to meet."
-Anonymous Canadian Citizen 1969.
"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on the defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat."
- RAdm. "Jay' R. Stark, U.S. Navy
"The man who will go where his colors will go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to Democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionary, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...he has been called United States Marine." ~ Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach, US Army in "This Kind of War"
"If I were King, I'd close Army entry training and send all future Infantry grunts to the Marines. The Corps still produces trained and disciplined soldiers who still know how to fight and make it on a killing field."
--Col David Hackworth, USA Army (Ret),one of Americas most highly decorated soldier-
"The amphibious (Marine) landing is the most powerful tool we have."
-General Douglas MacArthur
"Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just
having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have
to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops."
- Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA
"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they
are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
- Father Kevin Keaney, 1st MarDiv Chaplain, Korean War
When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, Col Puller called his artillerymen, gave them the Army position, and ordered: "If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them." Turning to the captain, he replied "Does that answer your question?
We're here to fight." At Koto-ri in Korea
- Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea
"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the
Air Force has accomplished during the war."
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea
"Don't forget that you're First Marines! Not all the Communists in hell can overrun you!"
- Chesty Puller motivating his men at Chosin Reservoir
Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".
Major General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection.
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation.
We make Marines, and we win battles.
-Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC (CMC); 5 May 1997
Ok will let it rest for now don't want to spam you to bad
"Have had terrific bombardment and attack.... Everything is ok... Can you get hot coffee to me?"
Major John "Johnny the hard" hughes 1BN/6th Marines after withstanding a terrifying CLoud of Gas and artillery attack in Belleau Wood
"The Continental ship Providence, now lying at Boston, is bound on a short cruise, immediately; a few good men are wanted to make up her complement."
(Marine Captain William Jones)
"They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines."
(Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, USMC 1943.)
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning."
(Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa, 21 November 1943.)
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years."
(James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, 23 February 1945.)
"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
(Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC, Marine, 1962.)
"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world."
(General Douglas MacArthur, USA, outskirts of Seoul, 21 September 1950.)
"I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like brilliant, it would really be an under-description of the absolutely superb job they did in breaching the so-called impenetrable barrier. . .Absolutely superb operation, a textbook, and I think it'll be studied for many, many years to come as the way to do it."
(General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 27 February 1991.)
Not sure if this one is on the site I looked and couldnt find it
"The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand."
(Attributed to many sources and popularized by the correspondent Richard Harding Davis during the late nineteenth-century.)
"We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!"
-GEN. JOHN VESSEY, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS
Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
-LT. GEN. LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC
"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!"
-GEN. MARK CLARK, US.ARMY
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!"
-Lt General George Patton, US Army 1945
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!"
-GEN. PERSHING, US.ARMY
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!"
-FERDINAND FOCH
"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" ..............Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945.
"Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings I have ever witnessed. They treat their service as if it were some kind of cult, plastering their emblem on almost everything they own, making themselves up to look like insane fanatics with haircuts ungentlemanly short, worshipping their Commandant almost as if he were a god, and making weird animal noises like a band of savages. They will fight like rabid dogs at the drop of a hat just for the sake of a little action and are the cockiest SOB's I have ever known. Most have the foulest mouths and drink well beyond a man's normal limits. But, their high spirits and sense of brotherhood set them apart and generally speaking the United States Marines I have come in contact with are the most professional soldiers and the finest men I have had the pleasure to meet."
-Anonymous Canadian Citizen 1969.
"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on the defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat."
- RAdm. "Jay' R. Stark, U.S. Navy
"The man who will go where his colors will go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to Democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionary, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...he has been called United States Marine." ~ Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach, US Army in "This Kind of War"
"If I were King, I'd close Army entry training and send all future Infantry grunts to the Marines. The Corps still produces trained and disciplined soldiers who still know how to fight and make it on a killing field."
--Col David Hackworth, USA Army (Ret),one of Americas most highly decorated soldier-
"The amphibious (Marine) landing is the most powerful tool we have."
-General Douglas MacArthur
"Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just
having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have
to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops."
- Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA
"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they
are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
- Father Kevin Keaney, 1st MarDiv Chaplain, Korean War
When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, Col Puller called his artillerymen, gave them the Army position, and ordered: "If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them." Turning to the captain, he replied "Does that answer your question?
We're here to fight." At Koto-ri in Korea
- Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea
"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the
Air Force has accomplished during the war."
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea
"Don't forget that you're First Marines! Not all the Communists in hell can overrun you!"
- Chesty Puller motivating his men at Chosin Reservoir
Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".
Major General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection.
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation.
We make Marines, and we win battles.
-Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC (CMC); 5 May 1997
Ok will let it rest for now don't want to spam you to bad
