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[roughfun]

Was that the "magnificant bastards" or do I have my units mixed up? I was with 2/5 at An Hoa In 67 and Hue in 68. Very busy time to be an 0311. Bucoup VC. Semper Fi

[lthrneck]

[DADESID]

Here's a Chesty Puller sea story... don't know if it's true, but it's still funny:

*****

The Korean War, in which the Marine Corps fought and won some of its most brutal battles, was not without its gallows humor.

During one such conflict a ROK (Republic of Korea) commander, whose unit was fighting along with the Marines, called legendary Marine Chesty Puller to report a major Chinese attack in his sector. "How many Chinese are attacking you?" asked Puller.

"Many,many Chinese!" replied the excited Korean officer. Puller asked for another count and got the same answer "Many, many Chinese!"

"X*#dammit!" swore Puller, "Put my Marine liaison officer on the radio."

In a minute, an American voice came over the air: "Yes sir?"

"Lieutenant," growled Chesty, "exactly how many Chinese you got up there?"

"Colonel, we got a whole shitload of Chinese up here!"

"Thank God." exclaimed Puller, "At least there's someone up there who knows how to count!"

*****

[lthrneck]

Gotta love the Chesty sea stories.
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"Old Breed, New Breed, There's not a DAMM bit of
difference so long as it's the MARINE Breed"
- Lt. Gen Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

Semper fi
uuurah
Carry On!!

[Tom Poole]

Great post DADESID! I like your story now better than the "they won't get away this time" story.
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'58 Airedale HMR(L)-261 VMO-2

[lthrneck]

Apparently General Mattis said something this week (Feb 7th) that the Washington Press corp considered to be "offensive".
Allow me to put his comments into historical perspective:
Admiral William Halsey - US 7th Fleet.

“Before we are through with them, the Japanese language will only be spoken in hell.”
General Curtis Lemay - Strategic Air Command

"You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting."

ONG>Ulysses S. Grant - General of the Army and President.

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
General George S. Patton.

"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the **** out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Goddamned MARINES get all the credit!"
And finally, my favorite General says all that needs to be said to the idiots in the press:
General William Tecumseh Sherman

"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."
And in the best retort ever against the "nattering nabobs" in the press, a full 150 years before the advent of modern "advocacy journalism", he said this:
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all this evening they would be reporting news from Hell before breakfast. "
General Mattis can say whatever the hell he wants as loud as he wants as far as I'm concerned. Just keep fighting and keep winning, all the rest is just words.

The only people offended by General Mattis are people that are prejudiced and bigoted against members of the military. I'm not sure I care too much about the opinions of bigots...
_________________
"Old Breed, New Breed, There's not a DAMM bit of
difference so long as it's the MARINE Breed"
- Lt. Gen Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

Semper fi
uuurah
Carry On!!

[gocars]

DADESID: Great story!

Yup, nothing is more succinct than that standard military unit of measurement, the "shitload".

gocars
101st Airborne
'Nam 67-70
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