I'm reading the book "Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller". Puller, a combat veteran of jungle fighting in Haiti and Nicaragua, was attending an Army infantry school at Ft. Benning which had courses taught by officer instructors who had never been in combat. The year was 1931.
From the book:
One lecturer told the students that volume of fire in the field was more important than accuracy. That brought Puller to his feet. "You must have forgotten what happened in the American Revolution," he said. "We won that war with accurate fire, when the enemy had all the volume. It won at Kings Mountain and Saratoga, and every other battle we won...It's still like that, anywhere I've seen men shooting it out. You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em." There was applause from the class.
Reading this just made me smile.
UL
Thanx for your post on Gen Charles(Chesty) Puller . I recall reading a couple different books on this man who started life as a private . fighting the communist sandinistas in Nicuaragua and el salvador
Chesty's picture is proudly displayed amoung other Americans who have made diffirence. This pic features him wearing an M65 field jacket with USMC emblem on the pocket ,hanging around his neck are a pair of binoculars .
When fighting in korea so the story goes ,army brass was 30 miles away from the action ,they were fed fresh food served by guys wearing white gloves ! A reporter at the front lines asked Chesty "where is your command post " ? Gen Puller replies "Your looking at it and we enjoy our C rations cold ,besides we need the trucks to haul our ammo " Truly a Marines ,Marine .
Incidently the USMC was founded before the constitution Nov 10 1775 ---Semper Fidelis !
Ol' Chesty. My favorite Marine.
They've got us surrounded, the poor bastards. - Chesty Puller.
If it's good enough for Chesty Puller, it's good enough for us!
General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, Not Charles... :)
CH
Quote from: Johnnyappleseed on June 23, 2012, 02:29:42 AM
Thanx for your post on Gen Charles(Chesty) Puller . I recall reading a couple different books on this man who started life as a private . fighting the communist sandinistas in Nicuaragua and el salvador
Chesty's picture is proudly displayed amoung other Americans who have made diffirence. This pic features him wearing an M65 field jacket with USMC emblem on the pocket ,hanging around his neck are a pair of binoculars .
When fighting in korea so the story goes ,army brass was 30 miles away from the action ,they were fed fresh food served by guys wearing white gloves ! A reporter at the front lines asked Chesty "where is your command post " ? Gen Puller replies "Your looking at it and we enjoy our C rations cold ,besides we need the trucks to haul our ammo " Truly a Marines ,Marine .
Incidently the USMC was founded before the constitution Nov 10 1775 ---Semper Fidelis !
Quote from: CharlieHotel on June 23, 2012, 08:08:12 PM
General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, Not Charles... :)
CH
Quote from: Johnnyappleseed on June 23, 2012, 02:29:42 AM
Thanx for your post on Gen Charles(Chesty) Puller . I recall reading a couple different books on this man who started life as a private . fighting the communist sandinistas in Nicuaragua and el salvador
Chesty's picture is proudly displayed amoung other Americans who have made diffirence. This pic features him wearing an M65 field jacket with USMC emblem on the pocket ,hanging around his neck are a pair of binoculars .
When fighting in korea so the story goes ,army brass was 30 miles away from the action ,they were fed fresh food served by guys wearing white gloves ! A reporter at the front lines asked Chesty "where is your command post " ? Gen Puller replies "Your looking at it and we enjoy our C rations cold ,besides we need the trucks to haul our ammo " Truly a Marines ,Marine .
Incidently the USMC was founded before the constitution Nov 10 1775 ---Semper Fidelis !
Thank you for the important correction -His name was definately Lewis , I glanced for the book and went with a poor guess :-[Thanx again for setting this straight O0