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To: Farmer Dean
They’ll have it in 3 hours.Might be 3000 dead and wounded Marines on the ground-but you’ll have the airfield.
That would have been true with someone like Chesty Puller commanding.
But the Marine Corps has essentially become intolerant of that type of "leadership."
In fact, Chesty's request for re-activation during Vietnam was denied probably for that very reason.
18 posted on 06/16/2012 8:24:48 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven
In fact, Chesty's request for re-activation during Vietnam was denied probably for that very reason.

The stroke he suffered at Lejeune in 1955 had a lot to do with it.

19 posted on 06/16/2012 8:50:03 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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