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Prentice Ritter:
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." From the 2006 motion picture Broken Trail.
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"Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there." (Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC, April 1965.)
"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em." (Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC, 1962.)
"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction." (Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950.)
"Goddam it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!" (Captain Henry P. "Jim" Crowe, USMC, Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943.)
"Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want to live forever?" (Attributed to Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, USMC, Belleau Wood, June 1918.)
"Once a Marine, always a Marine!" (MSgt Paul Woyshner, a 40-year Marine, is credited with originating this expression during a taproom argument with a discharged Marine.)
"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 they did in breaching the so-called impenetrable barrier. . .Absolutely superb operation, a textbook, and I think it'll be studied for many, many years to come as the way to do it." (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 27 February 1991.)
"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." (General Douglas MacArthur, USA, outskirts of Seoul, 21 September 1950.)
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning." (Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa, 21 November 1943.)
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!"
GEN. PERSHING, US.ARMY
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!"
FERDINAND FOCH
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!"
GEN. MARK CLARK, U.S. ARMY
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!" Lt General George Patton, US Army 1945
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." GEORGE ORWELL
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
MAJ. HOLDREDGE
"A ship without MARINES is like a garment without buttons."
ADM. DAVID PORTER, USN
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning!"
COL. DAVID M. SHOUP, USMC
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence."
GEN. JOHNSON, U.S. ARMY
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500 years."
JAMES FORRESTAL, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
"Come on, you sons of b*****! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC
"We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!"
GEN. OLIVER SMITH, USMC
"I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, U.S. ARMY
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"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country." -Gen. George Patton
"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week." -Will Rogers
"I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein
ThBadass of the Week
Lewis Puller, nicknamed "Chesty" because of his perfect posture and the fact that his torso somewhat resembled a full-size beer keg full of lead bricks, raw muscle and horse steroids, was a hard-as-shit motherfucker who is almost universally-recognized as the most badass dude to ever wear the uniform of the United States Marine Corps. Not bad, considering that being revered as the pinnacle of toughness by the USMC is kind of like being King of the Vikings or the toughest Klingon to ever set foot on the planet Kronos. In his thirty-seven years of service to the Corps, Puller would rise through the ranks from Private to General, kick more asses than Juan Valdez on an insane bender, and become the most decorated Marine in American history.
Telling Time
On some air bases the Air Force is on one side of the field and civilian aircraft use the other side of the field, with the control tower in the middle.
One day the tower received a call from an aircraft asking, "What time is it?"
The tower responded, "Who is calling?"
The aircraft replied, "What difference does it make?"
The tower replied, "It makes a lot of difference. If you're an American Airlines flight, it is 3 o'clock. If you're an Air Force plane, it is 1500 hours. If you're a Navy aircraft, it is 6 bells. If you're a Marine Corps aircraft, the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 3. But if you're an Army aircraft, it's Thursday afternoon and 120 minutes to "Happy Hour!!!".
Miscellaneous . . .
On the wall of our local vehicle section:
"Maintain it like you own it -
Drive it like you STOLE it!"
"Pain is weakness leaving the body"
Seen on a T-shirt in Pensacola, FL (home of the Navy, Marine Corps primary flight program, and the Navy, Marine and Coast Guard helo programs)
"Maverick can't hover."
Sitting in a beanfield in the middle of Ft. Campbell around 0200, been there since 1400 the previous afternoon (thats a twelve hour wait until 2am for you civvies). Radio crackles that birds are scrubbed, for the fourth time, until 0600, new op(erations) ord(er) is for the sticks to hold in place on the PZ we'll do the mission in the daylight. Its hovering around 38 F, none of us brought field jackets and few of us even packed an MRE as we were supposed to be leaving the field after this last mission and AAR. The First Sergeant of A 2/187 is on our bird, as the XOs voice on the radio fades back into the silence that had long ago overtaken the excited chatter of an impending mission he says;
"Can you feel the love? Its all around us."
Maintenace control asks about the status of one of our aircraft and when it will be ready for flight, the maintenance lead on duty grabs the radio mike and replys "Status Is FUBAR, won't be ready until Oh Beer Thirty". FRUAR = F#@%ed Up Beyond All Repair
Also heard the saying Tango Uniform used quite alot. TU = T#ts Up, ie. belly up, no good, broken.
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