Don’t you forget that you’re First Marines! Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you! — ‘Chesty’ Puller rallying his First Marine Regiment near Chosin Reservoir, Korea, December 1950
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. — Ronald Reagan after bombing Libya.....
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When the sh*t hits the fan, there’s enough for everyone.
Hans Brix
“Tell him, ‘Let not him that girds on his armor boast himself as he that puts it off.’” (King Ahab of Israel in response to the the demand of the Syrian king, Ben-Hadad, to surrender. 1 Kings, chapter 20)
“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.” - Lt Ronald Speirs, Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment
“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.
http://www.military-quotes.com/chesty-puller.htm
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller
“Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!”-The Duke
Out here, due process is a bullet.
John Wayne, The Green Berets, - 1968
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“We are not retreating! We are advancing in a different direction!”.
“peace: that bright, shining moment when everybody is furiously reloading”- Thomas Jefferson.
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” If you’re not catching flak, then you’re not over the target”- Curtis LeMay.
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“The number one rule in Italian Driving...what is behind you is NOT important”
Raul Julia in Gumball Rally.
~ Corporal Dwayne Hicks
(from the movie, Alien)
To defend the city of Manila from the attacking American army
in ‘45 the Japanese stripped artillery from ships and reassembled it
inland at places like Nichols Field (where my paratrooper dad
earned his million $ wound). A paratrooper officer was on the radio
with a superior officer and said the following, “Sir, you can tell
Admiral Halsey he can stop looking for the Jap navy. It’s here
on Nichols Field!”
BUMP!
BUMP!
“May the sky refuse to stand over them. May the earth refuse to support them. May their steps be confused, may their insides be twisted. May they do nothing in secret that is not broadcast from the rooftops, may their weapons betray them. With a free will for the good of all, may it be.” – Unknown
“If they do not now accept our terms they will face a rain of ruin from the air the likes never seen before on earth”. (President Harry Truman warning the sneaky Jap leaders after the Hiroshima bomb.)
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.