Random Marine Corps Quotes
"We signed up knowing the risk. Those innocent people in New York didn't go to work thinking there was any kind of risk. ~ Pvt. Mike Armendariz-Clark, USMC; Afghanastan, 20 September 2001,As reported on page 1 of the New York Times
"Marines don't know how to spell the word defeat" — Gen. James N. Mattis | U.S. Central Command
“The most deadly thing on a battlefield is one well-aimed shot.” — Sgt. Carlos Hathcock | USMC Sniper
Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights." ~ Navy Times; November 1994
“The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.” — U.S. Army Gen. Mark Clark | World War II, Korean War
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ~ Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. Army - Commander of American Forces in World War I
"The Marines have landed, and the situation is well in hand". ~ Richard Harding Davis, war correspondent (1885)
"Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary." ~ Gen. A. M. Gray, USMC - Commandant of the Marine Corps
"Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops." ~ Gen. Colin Powell, U. S. Army Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff - During Operation Desert Storm
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