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To: chesty_puller

You seem to be a logical one to ask: Do you know how the name “Chesty” came about?


12 posted on 02/20/2009 4:37:47 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

His chest looked like a barrel.


14 posted on 02/20/2009 4:48:52 PM PST by chesty_puller (70-73 USMC VietNam 75-79 US Army Wash DC....VietNam was safer.)
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To: Ramius

Puller had asthma and today would most likely be deemed medically unfit to serve in the Corps. His exercise regimen, adopted to give him greater lung capacity to compensate for the asthma, produced his barrel chest and gained him the nickname Chesty


29 posted on 02/20/2009 7:47:56 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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