one answerer in one of my posts said the marine corps is a religion, just proving some of the points i made…
im not here USMC bashing, as a matter of fact, i love the Corps but i hate the arrogance they show as if they are the best and their recruit training should be closely supervised. i was taught in boot camp that the germans in belleau woods france called the marines “teufel hunden” which means devil-dogs. the Marines are proud of that name. i done research, and during the same period, WW1, a german officer was quoted as saying about ARMY AIRBORNE, “they dont stop, they just keep coming, them DEVILS in baggy pants!”. sounds the same to me, the germans were afraid of both, Marines and army! another part of the “propaganda machine” the marine boot camp taught us is that guadalcanal was only a marine operation. thats a lie, there were plenty army units at guadalcanal and please army answerers confirm this for me. i never researched this but veterans told me that Marines were pulled out of Nam because their casualties were excessive. ok, why Marines take credit for things the army did also?
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Your research about Marines being pulled out of Vietnam due to excessive casualties is totally erroneous. A US Marine was the last to leave from the top of the US Embassy in April 1975 on a Marine helicopter from my squadron. Marines had their fair share of casualties because we were always engaged with finding and destroying the enemy. You usually don’t take casualties if you are not FIGHTING.
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Read the quotes and weep. Find me some equivalent about the Army and I will integrate them into my research. History is a tough truth to refute. (Please note USA means US Army)
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
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
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
“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
“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
“”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
“Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)”
GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD
“So they’ve got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won’t get away this time!”
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
“We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!”
GEN. JOHN VESSEY, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS
“Retreat hell! We just got here!”
CAPT. LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC
“The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!”
MAJ. GEN. FRANK LOWE, U.S. ARMY
“Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES.”
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR
“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
“There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and those who have met them in battle. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.” Unknown
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