military wisdom

Bumper stickers seen on Marine Corps Base

"Were you born worthless, or did you have to work at it?."
Gunnery SGT Hartman

"U.S. Marines -- Certified Counselors to the 72 Virgins Dating Club"

" Water-boarding is out, so kill them all!"

"Interrogators can't water board dead guys"

" U.S. Marines -- Travel Agents To Allah"

"Stop Global Whining"

"When In Doubt, Empty The Magazine" Naval Corollary; Dead men don't testify.

"The Marine Corps -- When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight"

"Death Smiles At Everyone -- Marines Smile Back"

"Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!"

"What Do I Feel When I Kill A Terrorist? .... A little Recoil"

"Marines -- Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity To Die For their Country Since 1775

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"

"Happiness Is A Belt-Fed Weapon"

It's God's Job to Forgive Bin Laden -- It's Our Job To Arrange The Meeting"

"Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Brawl"

"One Shot, Twelve Kills -- US Navy Gun Fire Support"

"Do draft dodgers Have Reunions? If So, What Do They Talk About?"

"My kid fought in Iraq so your kid can party in college"

"Machine Gunners -- Accuracy by Volume"

"A Dead Enemy Is A Peaceful Enemy -- Blessed Be The Peacemakers"


"If You Can Read, Thank A Teacher. If You Can Read It In English, Thank A Veteran"

"Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, WAR has Never Solved Anything.

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
Jonathan Winters, comic and Marine

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
Gen. A. M. Gray, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea,
overheard and reported by Marine Staff Sergeant Bill Houghton, Weapons/2/5

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 that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, U. S. Army
Commander, Operation Desert Storm, February 1991

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.
Admiral William Halsey, U.S. Navy

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
General Alexander A. Vandergrift, USMC
to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, 5 May 1946

Courage is endurance for one moment more…
Unknown Marine Second Lieutenant in Vietnam

"You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?!" -Unidentified Marine Colonel

"The man who will go where his colors will go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to Democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionary, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...he has been called United States Marine."
?Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach, US Army in "This Kind of War"

"I think that although we veterans may have been casualties of the war, our families are forever prisoners of war." ?Jerry Martin, Vietnam Veteran

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."