Happy Birth day to the US Marine Corps, page 1
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Topic started on 10-11-2005 @ 05:36 PM by American Mad Man
The USMC is officially 230 years old

Heres to those brave souls that have served their nation so valiantly.













From the Halls of Montezuma
To the Shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
of United States Marine.

Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in ev'ry clime and place
Where we could take a gun;
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job--
The United States Marines.

Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.

Semper fidelis!


reply posted on 11-11-2005 @ 01:02 AM by American Mad Man
Some great quotes:

"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight!"
- MGen. Frank E. Lowe, USA; Korea, 26 January 1952

"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
- General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur; Korea, 21 September 1950

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem."
- Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985

"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat."
- RAdm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995

"They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake"."
- Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991

"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
- GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC
near Lucy-`le-Bocage as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918

"You'll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
- Capt. Henry P. Crowe, USMC; Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943

"This was the first time that the Marines of the two nations had fought side by side since the defence of the Peking Legations in 1900. Let it be said that the admiration of all ranks of 41 Commando for their brothers in arms was and is unbounded. They fought like tigers and their morale and esprit de corps is second to none."
- Lt Col. D.B. Drysdale, Commanding
41 Commando, Chosen Reservoir, on the 1st Marine Division Division

"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
- Father Kevin Keaney
1st Marine Division Chaplain
Korean War

"The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps."
- General Alexander A. Vandergrift, USMC
to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, 5 May 1946

"By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the American who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue."
- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Navy

"I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in 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."
- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, U. S. Army
Commander, Operation Desert Storm, February 1991

"I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world."
- Prime Minister of Britain, Sir Winston Churchhill


"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle."
- Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. Army
Commander of American Forces in World War I


"Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary."
- Gen. A. M. Gray, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps

"If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war."
- General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea,
overheard and reported by Marine Staff Sergeant Bill Houghton

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reply posted on 11-11-2005 @ 01:25 AM by American Mad Man
May I introduce you all to perhaps the toughest, greatest marine to ever live, Lieutenant General Lewis "Chesty" Puller.



Puller was the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, and one of only two people to be awarded five Navy Crosses (the other being Roy Milton Davenport). His other decorations included the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, two Legions of Merit (with Valor device), Bronze Star (with Valor Device), Air Medal, Purple Heart, and awards given by non-U.S. governments. The frigate Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23) was named after him.

A common incantation in the tradition of the Marine Corps is to end one's day with the declaration, "Good night Chesty, wherever you are!"

Also, to this day in boot camp and OCS (at Quantico, VA), Marines still chant "It was good enough for Chesty Puller/It is good enough for me" Chesty represents the esprit de corps of the Corps, what the United States Marines are really about.

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He is perhaps most famous for this during the Korean war:

"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!"

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.




[edit on 11-11-2005 by American Mad Man]
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