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XCR1250

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The most important six inches .................. is between your ears"
 
His last quote is as good as it gets!
 
 
March 18, 2013
Gen. James Mattis, known to his troops as "Mad Dog Mattis," retired after 41 years of military service.

The Marine Corps Times is calling Mattis the "most revered Marine in a generation."
 
1.. "I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for
failure. I cannot even spell the word."
 
 
2.. "The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot."
 
3.. "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading
with you, with tears in my eyes: If you screw with me, I'll kill you all." (said to the Iraqi leadership)
 
4.. "Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment
(in American democracy) and kill every one of them
until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and
our freedoms intact."
 
 
5.. "Marines don't know how to spell the word defeat."
 
6.. "Be polite, be professional but have a plan to kill
everybody you meet."
 
7.. "The most important six inches on the battlefield
is between your ears."
 
8.. "You are part of the world's most feared and trusted
force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon."
 
 
Gen. Mattis in 2006
9.. "There are hunters and there are victims. By your
discipline, cunning, obedience and alertness, you
will decide if you are a hunter or a victim."
 
10. "No war is over until the enemy says it's over.
We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in
fact, the enemy gets a vote."
 
11. "There is nothing better than getting shot at and
missed. It's really great.."
 
12. "You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the
brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad."
 
 
Gen. Mattis and Gen. Dempsey
13. "You go into Afghanistan , you got guys who slap
women around for five years because they didn't
wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no
manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to
shoot them. Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you
know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people.
I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling."
(CNN)
 
14. "I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us.
Because if you do, the survivors will write about
what we do here for 10,000 years."
 
15. "Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better
Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine."
 
16. "Fight with a happy heart and strong spirit"
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Mileage Psycho

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I like this :bc: 

 

13. "You go into Afghanistan , you got guys who slap
women around for five years because they didn't
wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no
manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to
shoot them. Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you
know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people.
I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling."

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Zambroski

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My favs:

 

6.. "Be polite, be professional but have a plan to kill
everybody you meet."

9.. "There are hunters and there are victims. By your
discipline, cunning, obedience and alertness, you
will decide if you are a hunter or a victim."

 

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52 minutes ago, Mileage Psycho said:

I like this :bc: 

 

13. "You go into Afghanistan , you got guys who slap
women around for five years because they didn't
wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no
manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to
shoot them. Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you
know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people.
I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling."

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An interview with him in 2015:

Mattis has never minced words when it came to his opinions about U.S. leadership. Just a year ago, he said the U.S. was suffering “strategic atrophy” under Obama’s leadership, The Washington Times reported. He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to break NATO apart and China was doing a good job of finding friction points between U.S. allies. But he added that policy missteps could be corrected with the right leadership.

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10 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

So who is going to replace this jewel?

Mattis wasn't the Marine Commandant, but the new Commandant of the Marines General Neller is saying no more cell phones or fancy coffee, it's going back to tents and foxholes for the Corp.

 

 

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General: Marines, put down those cell phones!

 

Updated 10:28 AM ET, Thu August 11, 2016

(CNN)US Marines need to put away their cell phones, forget about their fancy coffees and get back to doing what Marines used to do -- dig a foxhole, cover up, stay quiet and be wary, the Corps' top officer says.

Speaking at a conference on the future of expeditionary warfare at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies on Tuesday, Gen. Robert B. Neller, commandant of the Marines Corps, said today's Marines have gotten a little too comfortable with modern conveniences in a way that could prove disastrous on the battlefield.
Neller said the Marines and Navy had seen exercises in which their personnel's use of mobile devices could give away positions to adversaries.
One involved a Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), a large unit designed for front-line combat operations.
"What do you think the largest electromagnetic signature in the entire MEF headquarters emanated from? The billeting area. Why? Because everybody had their phone on. So we're going to have to take everybody's phone away from them?" he asked.
"I know that sounds silly, but it's not silly," Neller said at the conference. "So, okay, Marines: We're going to go to the field for 30 days; everybody leave your phone in the car and tell your significant other or your mom, your aunt, your uncle, that you're not going to get 75 texts each day and answer them."
The Navy has come up with plans to reduce its reliance on modern electronics to make its force harder to trace, going so far as to have sailors re-learn navigating by the stars instead of using the Global Positioning System, he said.
But present-day society's most common tendencies can compromise those plans, the general said.
"We realized that we didn't have the right solution because, you know, Seaman Hicks decided she wanted to check her Facebook page, and so she walked out on the weather deck at night with her phone, and what's that phone got? It's got GPS. So anybody in the world is going to know there's some GPS somewhere out floating across the ocean, most probably on a ship," Neller said.
At the same time, Marines need to go back to basics as to what it means to be in the field, he said. That means leaving fixed bases, being on the move and doing so as covertly as possible.
"When was the last time ... when you saw Marines or soldiers operating in Iraq or Afghanistan when they camouflaged their face or they broke up the outline of their helmet with camouflage so they couldn't be seen? When was the last time you saw that?" he asked.
"We've been operating out of fixed positions. We have not moved across the ground. We have not maneuvered. We have not lived off the land," Neller said. "We've been eating in chow halls and drinking green bean coffee. That's pretty nice."
But that's not where the Corps needs to be on the battlefield, he said.
"You're living out of your pack, you're going to stop at night, you're going to dig a hole, you're going to camouflage, you're going to turn off all your stuff, and you're going to sit there, and you try to sleep," he said. "And you've got to be careful to not make any noise, and you're going to try to have absolutely no signature. Because if you can be seen, you will be attacked. That's the difference, and that's where we've got to get."

 


 

 

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40 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

An interview with him in 2015:

Mattis has never minced words when it came to his opinions about U.S. leadership. Just a year ago, he said the U.S. was suffering “strategic atrophy” under Obama’s leadership, The Washington Times reported. He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to break NATO apart and China was doing a good job of finding friction points between U.S. allies. But he added that policy missteps could be corrected with the right leadership.

That correct leadership isn't Thrillery :guzzle: 

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