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Posted on 11/29/2016 2:35:10 PM PST by Strac6
(General Mattis is being considered to be the Secretary of Defense. What a great way to start rebuilding our military. His nickname is Mad Dog Mattis)
Story from Dr. Pierce:
"A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, Let me tell you a Jim Mattis story.
General Krulak said, when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year, starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookies. They would package them in small bundles.
Then on Christmas day, he would load his vehicle. At about 4 a.m., General Krulak would drive himself to every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty that day.
He said that one year, he had gone down to Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the command center and gave a package to the lance corporal who was on duty. He asked, Who the officer of the day? The lance corporal said, Sir, it's Brigadier General Mattis. And General Krulak said, No, no, no. I know who General Mattis is. I mean, who's the officer of the day today, Christmas day? The lance corporal, feeling a little anxious, said, Sir, it is Brigadier General Mattis.
General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted in the back room a cot, or a daybed. He said, No, Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night? The lance corporal said, Sir, it was Brigadier General Mattis.
About that time, General Krulak said that General Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and General Krulak said, Jim, what are you doing here on Christmas day? Why do you have duty? General Mattis told him that the young officer who was scheduled to have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to have duty on Christmas Day. General Krulak said, That's the kind of officer that Jim Mattis is.
The story above was told by Dr. Albert C. Pierce, the Director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at The United States Naval Academy. He was introducing General James Mattis who gave a lecture on Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Conflict in the spring of 2006. This was taken from the transcript of that lecture.
Trump needs to sign him up ASAP!
Thanks for sharing
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I think people are going to be surprised at how many true patriots step forward next year as the “tone” in Washington changes. Thanks for sharing this.
Age old tradition in the officer corps of all branches embodied in, “First the horse, then the saddle...”. You come LAST.
Charlie Krulak would himself be a good candidate.
His father was a forward observer in Shanghai before ww2 AND SENT PHOTOS OF A BOW RAMPED LANDING CRAFT TEH JAPS WERE USING AND SENT IT TO DC WHERE THEY SHITCANNED IT..
He later brought the idea to a guy named Higgins and he produced the Higgins boat used on D Day.. to land the troops...
Charlie Krulak ran “extra duty “ one week when i had the unfortunate experience as a plebe to have it. He ran us for about 5 miles at 3 am and then we did 2000+ jumping jacks... Did this and then got up at 6:15 for a normal day...
Charlie was always gung-ho and served the country well.
This guy has a lot of build up. I cannot see where he ever did zip in combat other then lead a BN in Gulf Storm. LTC’s do not do much in war. In Afghan SF had already led the Northern Alliance and Karzai to take over Kabul. That should have ended it. No damn nation building.
That un-named lance corporal sure walked away with a hell of a story.
We need more thoughtful Men and Women in our government. People who think of others and their needs before their own.
Yes, we need Men running our military.
My son and daughter-in-law are active Air Force. Let me tell you the AF is 100% in favor of Mattis. Their USMC friends are convincing.
Do you know why Marines who served under Gen Mattis would low crawl through Hell in gunpowder suits for him? Because he never forgot where he came from. He spent time as an enlisted infantryman. He learned the lessons his SNCO’s taught him, and he understood that Marines exist to break things and stack bodies.
Maybe LTCs don’t do much in the Army. I can assure you the Marine Corps has a different way of doing things.
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Another Marine General I have the greatest respect possible for is Harold Glasgow.
I knew him in the late nineties as commander of the Harlingen based Marine Miltary Academy.
He was a Marine private originally that then distinguished himself in Korea. Totally outstanding man. With rare exception, and I know none, if you have climbed the ladder to Marine General, your an outstanding MAN period.
Regarding 0-5s (LTCs) in the Army. The bad ones didn’t so squat. The good ones led from the front.
Example, LTG (then LTC) Hal Moore, or anyone in the 11ACR.
Then LtGen Mattis, when he came under fire, dismounted his HMMWV and led a frontal assault on the attackers. A Lieutenant General. Conducting a fire team rush. No kidding. I am the secondary source. The primary is my former boss.
My favorite Frontal Attack Story was from DS.
7 Americans were “advising” a battalion from some Arab army. They were, a young ARNG infantry captain,
an old 11B E-7,
a Spec-4 HMMWV driver - RTO,
a USAF Captain air weapons director (FO),
his brother who was a USN doctor who didn’t want to miss the big show, who, on the eve of the invasion, went AWOL from some rear area USN post in south Saudi to be with his brother,
their E-3 USAF driver - RTO,
and a certain JAG 0-5 (a former law partner) who never really had any good explanation why he was forward of the Line of Departure, other than he had a CIB from Vietnam and wanted to win one....
They come upon a well dug in Iraqi army leg infantry battalion. The “good” Arabs all ran south. The 7 Americans said, what the hell, we can only die once, and did a “High Diddle Diddle - Right Up The Middle” with nothing more than M-16s.
The Iraqis panicked, abandoned their positions and all ran north, right into the “welcoming arms” of the British 1st Armored Division.
I assure you I have seen them in action carrying their wounded making so much noise they caused sniper fire on our yards. They created a lot of noise getting their own men killed. No he is no Clovis C. Coffman. Look that Marine up. No mere BSM V for Buck CC Coffman.
You claim force recon so you should know Coffman. Tell me all about him.
Riding in mech vehicles in Iraq and Afghan is idiotic as we taught the Mujahideen to blow up every Russian track vehicle from Infantry to tanks, The Russian left Afghan with the MSR’s and side roads littered with blown up vehicles. We have repeated that mistake. I could not believe the marines in Afghan after two SF teams lead both the Northern Alliance and Karzai to Kabul. The marines just created enemies.
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