#marines

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally. ↗

— Mark Udall

#capacity #congress #globally #iraq #marines

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job. ↗

— Drew Carey

#ethic #gave #job #kicks #marines

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test. ↗

— Drew Carey

#got #i #marines #oh #once

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less. ↗

— Allen West

#asks #citizens #coast #continually #country

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#came #first #four #got #half

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. ↗

— James F. Amos

#every #first #marine #marines #member

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#family #i #i came #into #marines

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#been #death #double #iraq #marines

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#air #air force #already #army #been

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#amid #country #deterrence #difficult #geographically