Let 'em get in close. Don’t waste ammo. Get your share! Remember, you don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

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Addressing troops on using ammunition with accuracy (November 1950), as quoted in One Bugle, No Drums: The Marines at Chosin Reservoir (1986) by William Hopkins, Ch. 5 : Trouble at Kojo, p. 61; also quoted in The Marine Corps Gazette Vol. 47 (1963), p. 46

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