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<blockquote data-quote="grizzly97" data-source="post: 1391729" data-attributes="member: 13933"><p>When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, </p><p>Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and ordered: </p><p>"If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them." </p><p>Turning to the captain, he replied "Does that answer your question? </p><p>We're here to fight." At Koto-ri in Korea </p><p>- Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea</p><p></p><p></p><p>"Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". "</p><p>Major General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection</p><p></p><p></p><p>"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an </p><p>enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"</p><p>- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC</p><p>When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written </p><p>the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 </p><p>enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty </p><p>ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the </p><p>process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grizzly97, post: 1391729, member: 13933"] When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and ordered: "If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them." Turning to the captain, he replied "Does that answer your question? We're here to fight." At Koto-ri in Korea - Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea "Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". " Major General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection "They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!" - Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men. [/QUOTE]
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