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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

One of the rules Maj. Gen. James Mattis gave his Marines to live by in Iraq, as quoted in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) by Thomas E. Ricks; as excerpted in Armed Forces Journal (August 2006)

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107 posted on 02/09/2016 4:04:46 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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"Your soul may belong to Jesus,
but your ass belongs to the marines."

Marine Corporal Eugene B. Sledge

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa




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108 posted on 02/09/2016 4:07:36 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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