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I have yet to encounter any officer here who has read an account of the Russo-Japanese War.

— Chesty Puller

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I assure you, Virginia, that I, never in my life, have ever made a statement that "I like to fight."

Those days in the woods saved my life many a time in combat.

I'll take care of my men first. Frozen troops can't fight. If we run out of ammunition, we'll go to the bayonet.

We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things.

The Continental Army never went through anything like those boys in Korea. The weather at the Chosin Reservoir averaged 25 degrees below zero. and it doesn't get that cold at Valley Forge.

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