Some Marine quotes to brighten your day! There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion. Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight! MGen. Frank E. Lowe, USA; Korea, 26 January 1952 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, First Lady of the United States, 1945 Marines I see as two breeds,Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. Theyre aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. Theyve got really short hair and they always go for the throat. RAdm. Jay R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995 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 Keaney1st Marine Division ChaplainKorean War The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it. General Mark Clark, U.S. Army So theyve got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds wont get away this time! CHESTY PULLER, USMC Roger that George, and even an Army guy like me has to admit that it is always best to have a Devil Dog unit on your flank in combat because thats one flank you dont have to worry about. Heres a true story: In 2003 when the Marines and the Army 3d Infantry Division had taken down Baghdad and had truck convoys scattered all the way into Kuwait, I was a plans officer at USCENTCOM when our intelligence intercepted an order from the Iraqi insurgency commander. It was a field order to all the insurgent unit commanders and it went something like this: Resistance Commanders, When attacking supply and truck units you must be aware that there are two different American armies: 1. The US Army which wears tan desert uniforms like this (photo of a Soldier wearing the old desert uniform); and. 2. The US Marine Corps which wears a different uniform like this (photo of a Marine wearing the newly issued USMC digital uniform). When planning your attacks on supply lines and truck convoys ensure that you do NOT attack a US Marine unit. If you do, these supply-unit Marines will immediately act like Army infantry and they will attack you and hunt every one of your men down and kill them. The US Army truck and supply units will not pursue you. Attack them instead. As deeply embarrassing as that was to the entire US Army, it was a long time coming. As an Infantryman, I know that in the past 25 years we trained the hell out of our active duty combat units but we let the rest of the force waste away. The Army has a long ways to go, but we have rectified some of these problems in the past four years. Its just sad that we had to let the enemy tell us how screwed up we were. VR, John A. Keenan Colonel, USMC (Ret) Theyre on our right, theyre on our left, theyre in front of us, theyre behind us; they cant get away from us this time. Chesty Puller, USMC, Chosin Reservoir, Korean War
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:26:03 +0000
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