“We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”
– Quote Attributed to 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.
Young men with weapons and an enemy their own government wouldn’t take an issue with them killing.