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Operation_VAF

  1. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.-Omar Bradley 2:19 PM Apr 2nd via web
  2. The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand. Attributed to Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) 1:13 PM Apr 2nd via web
  3. "Retreat, hell we just got here!" ~ Captain Lloyd Williams, USMC at the Battle of Belleau Wood WWI 12:02 PM Apr 2nd via web
  4. Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning-Col. Shoup, USMC Tarawa 1943 10:55 AM Apr 2nd via web
  5. A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery 9:45 AM Apr 2nd via web
  6. If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war. General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea 8:25 AM Apr 2nd via web
  7. I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!-MacArthur 1950 7:22 PM Apr 1st via web
  8. Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. Adm Stark 5:08 PM Apr 1st via web
  9. There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion. 4:02 PM Apr 1st via web
  10. The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!GEN. MARK CLARK, U.S. ARMY 2:45 PM Apr 1st via web
  11. 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 8:30 AM Apr 1st via web
  12. Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer! MAJ. HOLDREDGE 6:26 PM Mar 31st via web
  13. "Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue" ~ Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Iwo Jima WWII 4:11 PM Mar 31st via web
  14. Marines are careful, brave fighters..like hunters boring in relentlessly without fear I never heard a wounded Marine moan-U.S. Army General 3:03 PM Mar 31st via web
  15. To observe a Marine, is inspirational. To be a Marine, is exceptional.GySgt Charles F. Wolf, Jr 10:13 AM Mar 31st via web
  16. The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. Army WWI 6:54 PM Mar 30th via web
  17. 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.Pershing 1918 5:37 PM Mar 30th via web
  18. The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.- Adm Halsey 4:34 PM Mar 30th via web
  19. Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC 1918 3:27 PM Mar 30th via web
  20. To ERR is human, to FORGIVE divine. HOWEVER, neither is Marine Corps Policy. 2:11 PM Mar 30th via web