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"They don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines."



LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC

Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943

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imagesinwords
12:42 Apr 03 2008

woohoo, thanks for that one :D

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LeatherNeck
16:47 Apr 03 2008

You know I got your back "sis"!

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"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, Weapons 2/5

"The American Marines have it, and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it."



General Mark Clark, U.S. Army

"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

"My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers... These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost."



2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard, Peleliu, World War II

"Don't you forget that you're First Marines! Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you!"



Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC rallying his First Marine Regiment near Chosin Reservoir, Korea, December 1950

"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

"We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?"



Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the assault on Grenada, 1983

"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

"Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines."



Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, USA, 12 February, 1918

"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