I recall an old joke about a Japanese task force that wants to take an island in the Pacific. No big deal -- intelligence indicates there's just a single US Marine on the island. Small Japanese forces go in, but they get wiped out. Larger forces storm the beaches. No survivors. Finally, an all-out assault is staged -- and one Japanese survivor staggers out of the jungle and makes it back to the ship. The Japanese Commander asks: "What's the situation?" The soldier gasps out: "There are two of them!"
Ha! Good one.
We had a Marine, a colonel I think, come in and describe how he used our company's laser rangefinder to direct air support to take out about a thousand taliban in the earliest fighting in Afganistan. The enemy had them surrounded, their were literally only about a dozen marines, and they kept marking the ememy's positions and the F-18s would come in and blow them away. He said the rangefinders literally saved all of their lives as they thought they were doomed.
He and his men were very grateful and came to the company to say "thanks."