Marine Corps Sayings

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• Save Water, Shower With A Marine
  
  Grunts Can Do Anything
  
  Marines Always Welcome, Relatives By Appointment
  
  Good Night Chesty, Wherever You Are
  
  Marine Sniper -- Visualize World Peace
  
  Marine Sniper -- You Can Run But You Can't Hide
  
  What Part of Marine Don't you Understand?
  
  We Don't Care How You Do It In The Navy
  
  Be Safe Sleep With A Marine!
  
  To Boldly Go Where A FEW GOOD MEN Have Gone Before
  
  Hero's Get Remembered, Legends Live Forever
  
  When It Absolutely, Positively Must Be DESTROYED Overnight -- Call The USMC
  
  Heaven Won't Take Us and Hell Is Afraid We'll Take Over
  
  There Are Two Types of People: MARINES and Those Who Wish They Were
  
  It Ain't Braggng If YOU Can Do It
  
  We Deliver More Destruction Overnight Than Those Who Deliver Overnight
  
  Deadliest Weapon In The World -- A Marine And His Rifle
  
  If You Weren't There Then Shut Up!
  
  Marines Never Die -- They Just Go To Hell And Re-Group
  
  For Those Who Fought For It, Freedom Has A Flavor The Protected Will Never Know
  
  The Impossible Is Done With The Lord's Help And A Few Good Men and Women
  
  Nobody Ever Drowned In Sweat
  
  Marine Pilots Are Plane People With A Special Air About Them
  
  I Love The Smell Of Jet Fuel In The Morining -- Marine Aviation
  
  USMC -- Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
  
  USMC -- No Promises, No Shortcuts
  
  USMC -- America's 911 Service
  
  More Sweat In Peace, Less Blood In War
  
  USMC Is Part Of The Navy -- The Men's Department
  
  Do Draft Dodgers Have Reunions? If So What Do They Talk About?
  
  To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is Divine Neither of Which Is Marine Corps Policy
  
  Marine Artillery -- The Grunts 24-7, 911 Rescue Battery
  
  Women Marines -- Fewer and Prouder
  
  Every Marine Is A Rifleman
  
  One Shot, One Kill
  
  Forget Smith and Wesson -- This Property Protected By A US Marine
  
  When In Doubt Empty The Magazine
  
  Force Recon -- Penetrates Deeper, Takes Longer And Carries A Bigger Load
  
  Pain Is Only Temporary, Pride Is Forever
  
  Where In The Hell Is 29 Palms?
  
  USMC -- We Do Not Promise You A Rose Garden
  
  B.A.M. ~ Beautiful American Marine
  
  Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body
  
  Combat Engineers -- When It Absolutely Must Be Destroyed Overnight
  
  The Marine Corps Doesn't Build Character, It Reveals It
  
  USMC Infrantry -- Taking Out The Garbage
  
  Not as Lean, Not As Mean, But Still A Marine
  
  And On The Seventh Day When GOD Rested,
  We Overran His Perimeter And Stole The Globe,
  We Stole The Eagle From The Air Force,
  The Anchor From The Navy,
  The Rope From The Army,
  And Have Been Protecting Our Shores Ever Since.
   
  "You earned the title "Marine" upon graduation from boot recruit training. It wasn't willed to you; it isn't a gift. It is not a government subsidy. Few can claim the title; no one can take it away. It is yours forever."
  Tom Barlett - Leatherneck Magazine
  
  "Some people spend an entire lifetime wonderng if they made a difference. The MARINES don't have that problem."
  President Ronald Reagan - 1985
  
  "Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings I have ever known. They treat their service as if it was some kind of cult, plastering their emblem on almost everythng they own, making themselves up to look like insane fanatics...."
  by an anonymous Canadian citizen
  
  The US Air Force Chief-of-Staff would never be called -- Airman
  The Chief-of-Naval Operations would never be called -- Sailor
  The Commanding General of The US Army would never be called -- Soldier
  BUT the Commandant of the Marine Corps would be proud to be called a -- Marine
  
  United States Marine Corps
  Leader of men, teller of tall tales, legend in his own mind, U.S. Marine extraordinaire, stream fordable, air dropable, beer fueled, water cooled, author, history maker, lecturer, traveler, freedom fighter, defender of the faith. Wars fought, tigers tamed, revolutions started, bars emptied, alligators castrated. Let me win your hearts and minds or I'll burn your damn hut down!
  
  
  No Former or Ex Marine here!
  Just a Marine no longer on active duty.
  
  "Once A Marine Always A Marine"
  
  "It's not the stars or bars you have,
  not what you wear on your sleeve or shoulder,
  that determines what you are.
  It's what you wear on your collar-
  The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor-
  It is The Title you earned, MARINE
  That puts you in the Brotherhood of the MARINES.
  
  "SOME PEOPLE WONDER ALL THEIR LIVES
  IF THEY'VE MADE A DIFFERENCE.
  THE MARINES DON'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM."
  
  "If you enjoy your freedom thank a Vet, but hug a Marine."
  
  You can take the Marine out of the Corps..
  BUT, you can't take the Corps out of the Marine!
  
  I was that which others did not want to be, I went where others feared to go and did what others failed to do, I asked nothing from those that gave nothing and reluctantly accepted the thought of eternal loneliness should I fail, I have cried, pained and hoped; but most of all I have lived times others would say are best forgotten. At least one day I can be proud of what I was and will ALWAYS be..."A United States Marine!"