We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine. . . People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did. . Besides, I am a U. S. Marine and I'll be one till I die.
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"
If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right. " One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.
We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.
Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild places - those keystone ecosystems that are irreplaceable, breathtakingly beautiful refuges for fish and other marine wildlife.
Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation