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I want to go where the guns are.

— Chesty Puller

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Source, in full

Statement on his reasons for leaving Virginia Military Institute after his freshman year to enlist in the US Marine Corps (1918), as quoted in Fox Valley Veterans : A Salute to Hometown Heroism (2008) by George Rawlinson, p. 230

More quotes by Chesty Puller

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

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.

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