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Marine Quote of the Day
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Author:  Þórgrímr [ 29 Oct 2007 12:53 ]
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"Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct."

General John 'Blackjack' Pershing, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 30 Oct 2007 11:28 ]
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"The Corps, which has never lost sight thats its primary mission is to fight, remains superbly trained and disciplined - True to its time-honored slogan "we don't promise a rose garden." When, under Clinton, the Army lowered its standards to Boy Scout summer camp level in order to increase enlistment, the Corps responded by making Boot Camp Training longer and tougher."

Col David Hackworth, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 31 Oct 2007 12:11 ]
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"I can't say enough about the two Marine Divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic, absolutely classic, military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches, type barrier."

Geb Norman Schwarzkopf, commander US Central Command, February 1991.

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 01 Nov 2007 07:24 ]
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"Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone."

Orders given to Communist Troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings to keep the enemy from immediately fleeing.

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 02 Nov 2007 07:18 ]
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"The American Marines are terribly reckless fellows... they would make very good storm troopers."

Unidentified German officer at Belleau Wood

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 03 Nov 2007 10:22 ]
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" A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."

Sir Bernard Law Montgomery Field Marshal, United Kingdom

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 04 Nov 2007 08:57 ]
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"My strategy is one against ten, my tactic is ten against one."

Mao-Tse-Tung, quoted in Bloodworth about facing the US Marines

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 05 Nov 2007 09:04 ]
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After the Rangers disaster in Somalia, where there were no tanks to break through to relieve them, and the embarrassment of not being able to fight in the war in Serbia, Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki started forming light brigades strikingly similar to USMC units. When I asked, "Why the copycating?" An Army officer said: "It was either copy or go out of business."

Col. David Hackworth, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 06 Nov 2007 10:13 ]
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"The Marine Corps was the only outfit in Clinton's armed forces that could still fight the hard fight."

Col David Hackworth, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 07 Nov 2007 09:24 ]
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"First the 'feminazis' integrated air force basic training, then the army went coed, while the navy, in an attempt to deflect the bad bad press from tailhook, surrendered in 1994. But the corps stood tall and said "No way, won't work. And now the corps can say "I told you so."

Col David Hackworth, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 08 Nov 2007 09:27 ]
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"The Marines keep their standards up and their leadership is dynamite! It is the same kind of leadership we have seen throughout the Marines' history, and they are not lowering the bar. They are increasing the bar, and they have long lines of people who want to join the Marine Corps."

Col David Hackworth, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 09 Nov 2007 09:43 ]
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"I can never again see a United States Marine without experiencing a feeling of reverence."

Gen. Johnson, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 10 Nov 2007 09:14 ]
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"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the pacific to kick the shit out of the purple-peeing Japanese, before the God Damned Marines get all the credit!"

Lt General George S Patton, US Army 1945

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 11 Nov 2007 10:43 ]
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"The American Marines have it (pride), and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and know it."

Maj. General Hagood, US Army

Author:  Þórgrímr [ 04 Jul 2008 09:26 ]
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"This will be the bloodiest fight in Marine Corps history. We'll catch seven kinds of hell on the beaches, and that will be just the beginning. The fighting will be fierce, and the casualties will be awful, but my Marines will take the damned island." (concerning the upcoming attack on Iwo Jima)

Lieutenant General Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith, USMC



"Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner." (In reference to the Battle of Iwo Jima)

Major General Graves B. Erskine, USMC



"The battle of Iwo Jima has been won. Among the Americans who served on Iwo, uncommon valor was a common virtue."

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN


To all Americans, I wish you a happy Fourth of July. May you enjoy this day and never forget the cost this day and every other as a free American required and may yet require.



I will finish up this post with a quote from the best politician ever produced in that sceptered isle of Great Britain:

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” --Winston Churchill



Cheers, Þórgrímr

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