2. You just don't lead `em so much. 3. Yeah, recoil."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.)"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning."
(Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa, 21 November 1943.)"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"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!"
GEN. MARK CLARK, U.S. 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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
GEORGE ORWELL"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
MAJ. HOLDREDGE"A ship without MARINES is like a garment without buttons."
ADM. DAVID PORTER, USN"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning!"
COL. DAVID M. SHOUP, USMC"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence."
GEN. JOHNSON, U.S. ARMY"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500 years."
JAMES FORRESTAL, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY"Come on, you sons of b*****! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC"We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!"
GEN. OLIVER SMITH, USMC"I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, U.S. ARMY"Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)"
GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC"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"Retreat hell! We just got here!"
CAPT. LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!"
MAJ. GEN. FRANK LOWE, U.S. ARMY"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR"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"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and those who have met them in battle. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."
UnknownWE STOLE THE EAGLE FROM THE AIR FORCE, THE ANCHOR FROM THE NAVY AND THE ROPE FROM THE ARMY.
ON THE SEVENTH DAY WHILE GOD RESTED, WE OVERRAN HIS PERIMETER, STOLE THE GLOBE AND WE'VE BEEN RUNNING THE WHOLE SHOW EVER SINCE.WE LIVE LIKE SOLDIERS, TALK LIKE SAILORS, AND SLAP THE HELL OUT OF BOTH OF THEM.
WARRIORS BY DAY, LOVERS BY NIGHT, PROFESSIONALS BY CHOICE, AND MARINES BY THE GRACE OF GOD.
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
I loved every single quote.....except for #16, by that RAT bastard affirmative action POS Colin Powell. He is a racist, pro-homo, pro-same sex marriage, pro 0dumb0BAT, posing as a military leader. Strike his quote and replace it with another true, patriotic, pro-American quote from someone else!
Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army
Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army
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“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance”
Last words of Gen. John Sedgwick just before a sniper shot him.
In my opinion, this is the best Marine Corps quote ever. It came from a Marine facing the enemy in what was arguably, as any, as grim and desperate fight of the war. They all knew survival was unlikely but they ran at the enemy anyway. Nothing defines leading from the front any better.
Sergeant Jim “Mush” Burdick, one of 12 of 22 surviving sergeants in his 2nd Joint Assault Signal Company, V Amphibious Corps, 2nd Marine Division, Saipan, June, 1944, orders to his remaining Marines as they prepared to counterattack the largest “banzai” attack of WWII:
“Don’t get in front of me.”
I just think the list is missing one-—advice from Sgt Fowler: “Be prepared, be alert, be polite, be professional-—but be prepared to kill the next person you meet”——it’s how I live my life-——Semper Fi
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Sighted sub, Sank same
Scratch one Flattop!
Fire when Ready, Gridley
Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead
I have not yet begun to Fight!
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The best one I heard directly came from our USAF drill sergeant, after we had messed up a simple laundry detail.
“You dummies could f*** up a steel ball with a rubber mallet.”
I stood at attention with tears running down my face, trying my damnedest NOT to laugh.
“There's nothing wrong with you but your headspace and timing.”
For those that don't know the .50 Cal had to be set using a headspace and timing gage.
“There's nothing wrong with you but your headspace and timing.”
For those that don't know the .50 Cal had to be set using a headspace and timing gage.
It had nothing to do directly with combat...nothing to do with the enemy surrounding me, but being in an MOS that had me off the runway at Cherry Point whenever the phone rang, it meant a great deal when I looked at my wife.
It was a t-shirt that simply read:
"The Only Thing Tougher than Being a Marine is Being a Marine's Wife."
God Bless the Family of our Troops"!!!
2. You just don't lead `em so much. 3. Yeah, recoil."No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great."
There ain't no use in looking down, there ain't no discharge on the ground. There ain't no use in looking back, Jody's got your Cadillac.
There's more, but I can't post them.
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