[papertyger]

As a Marine, you do understand what taking the initiative means.

As a Marine, do you understand what "taking a defended position" means?

[NTHockey]

1. We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.
2. So they’ve got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won’t get away this time!
3. Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!
4. 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!
Lt. Gen Lewis Burwell Puller, USMC

Good night Chesty, wherever you are.