Quote August 30, 2024

Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights.”
Navy Times
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Don’t you forget that you’re First Marines! Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you!”
Col. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller