I’d be surprised if a Marine didn’t talk like that.
He hit a Mark. Look at the squeeling schoolgirls upset that he said this.
General Mattis is a grunt at heart. He is a leader...he’s a Marine (retired). If he want’s to use the pussy word when talking to the troops....so be it. I would rather a man with principles say stuff like that, than, let’s say, John Effing Kerry, a Vietnam war hero, just ask him. Kerry’s large chin would be out of alignment if he talked like the General.