“Paper-work will ruin any military force” - Lieutenant-General Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller
“You don’t hurt ‘em if you don’t hit ‘em.” - Lieutenant-General Lewis B. Chesty Puller
When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, Col Puller called his Tank Commander, 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 (Quote from “Marine: The Life of Chesty Puller” by Burke Davis)
“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
“Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!” - Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. ” - Major General Chesty Puller, USMC – while on a Battalion inspection.
“We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.” - Attributed to Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC (I have found three versions of this one) The quotes may not be Chesty Pullers, but may instead have been said by General O.P.Smith
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time” - Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
“They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now!” - Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.
“They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know that they will be there in the morning.” - Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller when a journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22. enemy divisions
“There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go” - Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller
Via: http://www.military-quotes.com/chesty-puller.htm
This cannot be happening.
The pResident brought all the troops home from Iraq because the war was over!
Sarcasm aside, I will be praying for these brave men. I hope to God the asshat in chief does not simply abandon them to their fate.
Having leaders like “Chesty” would be great if dear leader odumbo would let them REALLY fight. I have no doubt our military is the best trained, best manned, best equipped military in the world but the way they are controlled eliminates any advantage(s) they have.
Where is the dreaded Al Quds Force...I thought the Iranians were tough and not to be messed with...I guess all those green uniforms and what gloves were just for show...cowards!
Doubtful these cowards would be silly enough to try and attack Marines. Its one thing to attack villages with poorly armed untrained people trying to defend the village its another to open your own personal can of whoopass...............
As long as our Marines have plenty of ammo and get the air support and resupply they need, I hope ISIS attacks. It will be a killing ground!
El Baghdadi is a tiny town in very close proximity to the massive al asad air base. It is now under control of hundreds of the enemy
Asad airbase has a HUGE perimeter which presents all kinds of opportunities for these black clad satan spawn to harass our men.
The base has been taking mortar fire for months and now are being probed with suicide attack skirmishers.
While the enemy doesn’t have the resources to overrun the base, an all out attempt by say 2-3 thousand would result in some Marine casualties.
Unfortunately the only way to achieve victory in this type of warfare and neutralize the threat of continued attacks on this base is to abandon the “innocent” moslem concept.
Give the population of “El Baghdadi” or any other place these satan spawn inhabit 24 hours to blow town and then level the place, kill anything that crawls out from the rubble.
Repeat as necessary.
The refugees can go to hell.
SEMPER FI