#marine

Courage is endurance for one moment more... ↗

— Unknown Marine Second Lieutenant in Vietnam

#courage

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! ↗

— Nevil Shute

#disease #humor #illness #measles #radioactivity

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore. ↗

— James F. Amos

#changed #corps #force #gospel #marine

If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith; if I am tempted, make me strong to resist; if I should miss the mark, give me courage to try again. Guide me with the light of truth and grant me wisdom by which I may understand the answer to my prayer. ↗

— Ronie Kendig

#courage

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability. ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#army #country #marines #military #navy

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#army #country #marines #military #navy

I had gone to school to study marine biology. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#gone #had #i #marine #school

I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#diego #i #marine #recruit #san

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#corps #four #hit #i #lightning

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#almost #am #corps #equal #force