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title: "195 Marine Corp Quotes by 138 authors"
description: "Browse 195 Marine Corp quotes by 138 authors. Discover the best Marine Corp sayings and thoughts."
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> [In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-young/in-the-marine-corps-we-re-taught-to-put-america-above-ourselves/)

[Todd Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-young/)

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> [The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/art-buchwald/the-marine-corps-was-the-first-father-figure-i-had-ever-known/)

[Art Buchwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/art-buchwald/)

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> [“The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-caputo/the-essence-of-the-marine-corps-experience-i-decided-was-pain/)

[Philip Caputo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-caputo/)

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> [The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lacey-evans/the-military-and-the-marine-corps-prepared-me-to-be-numb-to-the-stress/)

[Lacey Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lacey-evans/)

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> [In the Marine Corps there is no individual effort, we're all a big team.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyle-carpenter/in-the-marine-corps-there-is-no-individual-effort-we-re-all-a-big-team/)

[Kyle Carpenter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyle-carpenter/)

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> [It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-s-better-to-send-in-the-peace-corps-than-the-marine-corps/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-driver/emphasis-in-the-marine-corps-isn-t-on-talking-about-your-feelings/)

[Adam Driver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-driver/)

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> [In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-driver/in-the-marine-corps-everything-had-a-purpose/)

[Adam Driver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-driver/)

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> [“She had died and joined the Marine Corps. Or was God an aging general? Either way, she knew it couldn’t be heaven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clare-dargin/she-had-died-and-joined-the-marine-corps-or-was-god-an-aging-general/)

Clare Dargin

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> [One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kelly/one-day-you-ll-get-out-of-the-marine-corps-you-ll-put-your-uniform-up/)

[John F. Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kelly/)

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> [I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-s-truman/i-sincerely-regret-the-unfortunate-choice-of-language-which-i-used-in/)

[Harry S. Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-s-truman/)

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> [In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-peters/in-the-gulf-war-u-s-marine-corps-wheeled-vehicles-were-killing-iraqi/)

[Ralph Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-peters/)

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> [So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kiyosaki/so-the-marine-corps-really-did-teach-me-to-conquer-fear-and-then-to/)

[Robert Kiyosaki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kiyosaki/)

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> [Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-l-jones/ensure-that-no-marine-who-honorably-wore-the-eagle-globe-and-anchor/)

[James L. Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-l-jones/)

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> [“A Marine likes a good fight and respects a good fighter. You’ve got yourself one fine Marine for an escort and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bud-rudesill/a-marine-likes-a-good-fight-and-respects-a-good-fighter-you-ve-got/)

[Bud Rudesill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bud-rudesill/)

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> [They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-larson/they-say-you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water-but-you-can-t-make-him-drink/)

Fred Larson

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> [War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-b-sledge/war-is-brutish-inglorious-and-a-terrible-waste-the-only-redeeming/)

[Eugene B. Sledge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-b-sledge/)

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> [Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-keitel/well-you-sort-of-get-out-of-the-pool-room-you-get-out-of-the-marine/)

[Harvey Keitel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-keitel/)

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> [The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-webb/the-pow-camps-of-north-vietnam-were-packed-with-air-force-and-naval/)

[Jim Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-webb/)

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> [Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudy-giuliani/donald-trump-is-going-to-take-our-army-up-to-6-000-and-obama-and/)

[Rudy Giuliani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudy-giuliani/)

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> [During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm \[of Stonewall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-horwitz/during-a-mock-battle-attended-by-president-warren-harding-in-1921/)

[Tony Horwitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-horwitz/)

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> [Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-montross/americans-often-did-not-realize-that-their-marine-corps-was-a-force/)

Lynn Montross

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> [I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kiyosaki/i-resigned-from-the-marine-corps-and-flying-in-1974-even-though-i/)

[Robert Kiyosaki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kiyosaki/)

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> [When I joined the Marine Corps, you have to do a vocational test to get in, and I took the test, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liz-carmouche/when-i-joined-the-marine-corps-you-have-to-do-a-vocational-test-to/)

[Liz Carmouche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liz-carmouche/)

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> [The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-turse/the-united-states-has-been-fighting-african-pirates-since-the-early/)

[Nick Turse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-turse/)

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> [Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clare-boothe-luce/since-the-birth-of-our-nation-the-steady-performance-of-the-marine/)

[Clare Boothe Luce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clare-boothe-luce/)

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> [If I come in, and you're an employer, and I say, 'Well, I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dakota-meyer/if-i-come-in-and-you-re-an-employer-and-i-say-well-i-was-a-sniper-in/)

[Dakota Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dakota-meyer/)

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> [“the defense establishment of the United States of America is so complicated, not to say baroque, that many different agencies can accomplish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/the-defense-establishment-of-the-united-states-of-america-is-so/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

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> [Hillary Clinton lost because of who she is, because of her track record of failure, because there's no resume, there's no record…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/hillary-clinton-lost-because-of-who-she-is-because-of-her-track/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [“I actually shivered at the insincerity that gripped me as I spoke these words: their falseness was shameful. I was sure my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-styron/i-actually-shivered-at-the-insincerity-that-gripped-me-as-i-spoke/)

[William Styron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-styron/)

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> [I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-ayer/i-m-a-veteran-i-was-in-the-navy-in-the-submarine-corps-i-come-from-a/)

[David Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-ayer/)

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> [“go·mer  n. 1 MILITARY SLANG an inept or stupid colleague, especially a trainee. 2 INFORMAL (used mainly by doctors) a troublesome patient, especially an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oxford-university-press/go-mer-n-1-military-slang-an-inept-or-stupid-colleague-especially-a/)

[Oxford University Press](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oxford-university-press/)

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> [“Frank Fiorini, better known as Frank Sturgis, had an interesting career that started when he quit high school during his senior year…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba/frank-fiorini-better-known-as-frank-sturgis-had-an-interesting-career/)

[Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba/)

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> [“Every time the drill instructor screamed at me and I stood proudly; every time I thought I’d fall behind during a run…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-vance/every-time-the-drill-instructor-screamed-at-me-and-i-stood-proudly/)

[J.D. Vance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-vance/)

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> [“It is important not to latch onto some strategic fad to justify radical cuts in the U.S. Army or Marine Corps. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-o-hanlon/it-is-important-not-to-latch-onto-some-strategic-fad-to-justify/)

Michael O'Hanlon

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> [“When the British attacked Havana in 1762, Admiral de Hevia failed to scuttle the ships under his command. Thus, his ships fell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba-2/when-the-british-attacked-havana-in-1762-admiral-de-hevia-failed-to/)

Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

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> [“Overall, Zinni’s rules read like an updating of how to apply the Marine Corps culture to today’s conflicts: Stay loose. Stay focused.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/overall-zinni-s-rules-read-like-an-updating-of-how-to-apply-the/)

[Thomas E. Ricks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-e-ricks-2/)

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> [“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-scales/the-strategic-level-is-concerned-with-the-use-of-military-force-to/)

Robert Scales

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> [“The president called upon the Marine emergency evacuation helicopter that the White House Military Office had stationed nearby in the event of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garrett-m-graff/the-president-called-upon-the-marine-emergency-evacuation-helicopter/)

[Garrett M. Graff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garrett-m-graff/)

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> [“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferriss/what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-driven-college-student-about-to-8/)

[Timothy Ferriss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-ferriss/)

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## Top authors on Marine Corp

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                        "text": "Hillary Clinton lost because of who she is, because of her track record of failure, because there's no resume, there's no record of experience that she's good or qualified at anything. She cannot cite any achievements or accomplishments, other than traveling miles and being named after people she wasn't named after and being told to go join the dogs by somebody at the Marine Corps. She's exposed.",
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                        "text": "“Frank Fiorini, better known as Frank Sturgis, had an interesting career that started when he quit high school during his senior year to join the United States Marine Corps as an enlisted man. During World War II he served in the Pacific Theater of Operations with Edson’s Raiders, of the First Marine Raiders Battalion under Colonel “Red Mike.” In 1945 at the end of World War II, he received an honorable discharge and the following year joined the Norfolk, Virginia Police Department. Getting involved in an altercation with his sergeant, he resigned and found employment as the manager of the local Havana-Madrid Tavern, known to have had a clientele consisting primarily of Cuban seamen. In 1947 while still working at the tavern, he joined the U.S. Navy’s Flight Program. A year later, he received an honorable discharge and joined the U.S. Army as an Intelligence Officer. Again, in 1949, he received an honorable discharge, this time from the U.S. Army. Then in 1957, he moved to Miami where he met former Cuban President Carlos Prío, following which he joined a Cuban group opposing the Cuban dictator Batista. After this, Frank Sturgis went to Cuba and set up a training camp in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, teaching guerrilla warfare to Castro’s forces. He was appointed a Captain in Castro’s M 26 7 Brigade, and as such, he made use of some CIA connections that he apparently had cultivated, to supply Castro with weapons and ammunition. After they entered Havana as victors of the revolution, Sturgis was appointed to a high security, intelligence position within the reorganized Cuban air force. Strangely, Frank Sturgis returned to the United States after the Cuban Revolution, and mysteriously turned up as one of the Watergate burglars who were caught installing listening devices in the National Democratic Campaign offices. In 1973 Frank A. Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, Eugenio R. Martínez, G. Gordon Liddy, Virgilio R. “Villo” González, Bernard L. Barker and James W. McCord, Jr. were convicted of conspiracy. While in prison, Sturgis feared for his life if anything he had done, regarding his associations and contacts, became public knowledge. In 1975, Sturgis admitted to being a spy, stating that he was involved in assassinations and plots to overthrow undisclosed foreign governments. However, at the Rockefeller Commission hearings in 1975, their concluding report stated that he was never a part of the CIA…. Go figure! In 1979, Sturgis surfaced in Angola where he trained and helped the rebels fight the Cuban-supported communists. Following this, he went to Honduras to train the Contras in their fight against the communist-supported Sandinista government. He also met with Yasser Arafat in Tunis, following which he was debriefed by the CIA. Furthermore, it is documented that he met and talked to the Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, or Carlos the Jackal, who is now serving a life sentence for murdering two French counter intelligence agents. On December 4, 1993, Sturgis suddenly died of lung cancer at the Veterans Hospital in Miami, Florida. He was buried in an unmarked grave south of Miami…. Or was he? In this murky underworld, anything is possible.”",
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                        "text": "“Every time the drill instructor screamed at me and I stood proudly; every time I thought I’d fall behind during a run and kept up; every time I learned to do something I thought impossible, like climb the rope, I came a little closer to believing in myself. Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life. From Middletown’s world of small expectations to the constant chaos of our home, life had taught me that I had no control. Mamaw and Papaw had saved me from succumbing entirely to that notion, and the Marine Corps broke new ground. If I had learned helplessness at home, the Marines were teaching learned willfulness. The”",
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                        "text": "“It is important not to latch onto some strategic fad to justify radical cuts in the U.S. Army or Marine Corps. For two decades, since Operation Desert Storm, some have favored “stand-off” warfare, featuring long-range strike from planes and ships as the American military’s main approach to future combat. But it is not possible to address many of the world’s key security challenges that way including scenarios in places like Korea and South Asia, discussed further below, that could in fact imperil American security. In the 1990s, advocates of military revolution often argued for such an approach to war, but the subsequent decade proved that for all the progress in sensors and munitions and other military capabilities, the United States still needed forces on the ground to deal with complex insurgencies and other threats. A military emphasis on stand-off warfare is some- times linked with a broader grand strategy of “offshore balancing” by which the distant United States would step in with limited amounts of power to shape overseas events, particularly in Eurasia, rather than getting involved directly with its own soldiers and Marines. But offshore balancing is too clever by half. In fact, overseas developments are not so easily nudged in favorable directions through modest outside interventions. One of the reasons is that off- shore balancing can suggest, in the minds of friends and foes alike, a lack of real American commitment. That can embolden adversaries. It can also worry allies to the point where, among other things, they may feel obliged to build up their own nuclear arsenals as the likes of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia might well do absent strong security ties with America. Put bluntly, offshore balancing greatly exaggerates American power by assuming that belated and limited uses of U.S. force can swing overseas events in acceptable directions.”",
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                        "text": "“When the British attacked Havana in 1762, Admiral de Hevia failed to scuttle the ships under his command. Thus, his ships fell into the hands of the British. The Admiral was returned to Spain where he was court-martialed, stripped of his titles and sentenced to house arrest for 10 years. Fortunately, he was pardoned three years later, on September 17, 1765. Reinstated he returned to active duty as the commander of the Marine Corps in Cadiz. He died seven years later on December 2, 1772, at Isla de León, Spain. Havana being under the rule of the British governor Sir George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, the British opened trade with their North American and Caribbean colonies, causing a dramatic transformation in the culture of Cuba, as well as bringing an increase to the population. Thousands of additional slaves were brought to the island under British rule, ostensibly to work on the new sugar plantations. The British occupation, however, didn’t last long, since the Seven Years’ War ended less than a year after the British arrived, and with the signing of the Peace of Paris Treaty the English agreed to surrender Cuba in exchange for Florida. In Britain, many people believed they could have done better, had they included Mexico and some of the colonies in South America, as part of the deal. The Florida Keys, not being directly connected to the Florida mainland, also remained in dispute, but it was not contested as long as free trade was permitted. After the deal was made with the British, Spain retained control of Cuba until after the secessionist movements were ended with the Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10, 1898. The United States Senate ratified the treaty on February 6, 1899. In 1793, many more slaves were imported into Cuba when French slave owners fled from Haiti during the Slave Rebellion, also known as the Haitian Revolution. This brought 30,000 white refugees and their slaves into Cuba. With their knowledge of coffee and sugar processing, they founded many new plantations. This period of the English occupation and French influx, although chronologically short, was when the floodgates of slavery were opened wide. It was at this time that the largest numbers of black slaves ever, were imported into the country.”",
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                        "text": "“Overall, Zinni’s rules read like an updating of how to apply the Marine Corps culture to today’s conflicts: Stay loose. Stay focused. Keep it simple. And be honest. Similar messages can be heard in many parts of the Corps, wherever there are good officers willing to seize the initiative—that is, who care more about their mission and their Marines than they do about their careers. This is how Major Davis at the Drill Instructors School summarizes the Marine Corps way of doing business: “Concentrate on doing a single task as simply as you can, execute it flawlessly, take care of your people, and go home.”That doesn’t leave a lot of room for the “doctrine”that the Army so loves to write and cite. But those four steps offer an efficient way to run any organization.”",
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                        "text": "“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war, it has come to be interpreted as the highest political and diplomatic level at which decisions are made to collect and deploy military forces to a distant theater. The size of strategic land forces varies, depending on the nature of the topography and the seriousness of the enemy threat. In past limited wars, deployments involved relatively large armies consisting of multiple corps of 50,000 soldiers each. The numbers of soldiers deployed in more recent campaigns have been considerably smaller. The strategic challenge in the years ahead will center on \"time versus risk\"-that is, the decisions that must be made to balance the size of the strategic force to be projected versus the time necessary for the force to arrive ready to fight. The United States must be able to overcome the problems of distance and time without unnecessarily exposing early arriving forces to an enemy already in place within a theater of war. The operational level of warfare provides a connection between strategic deployments and the tactical engagements of small units. The \"art\" of maneuvering forces to achieve decisive results on the battlefield nest here. As with the deployments of strategic level forces, the basic elements of operational maneuver have shrunk as the conflict environment has changed since the end of the Second World War. During the Cold War, corps conducted operational maneuver. More recently, the task has devolved to brigades, usually self contained units of all arms capable of independent maneuver. An independent brigade consists of about 5,000 soldiers. At the operational level, ground forces will face the challenge of determining the proper balance between \"firepower and maneuver\" resources and technologies to ensure that the will of the enemy's army to resist can be collapsed quickly and decisively. Battles are fought at the tactical level. In the past, the tactical fight has been a face-to-face endeavor; small units of about company size, no more that several hundred soldiers, are locked in combat at close range. The tactical fight is where most casualties occur. The tactical challenge of the future will be to balance the anticipated \"ends,\" or what the combat commander is expected to achieve on the battlefield, with the \"means,\" measured in the lives of soldiers allocated to achieve those ends. Since ground forces suffer casualties disproportionately, ground commanders face the greatest challenge of balancing ends versus means. All three challenges must be addressed together if reform of the landpower services - the Army and the Marine Corps - is to be swift and lasting. The essential moderating influence on the process of change is balance. At the strategic level, the impulse to arrive quickly must be balanced with the need for forces massive and powerful enough to fight successfully on arrival. The impulse to build a firepower-dominant operational forces will be essential if the transitory advantage of fires is to be made permanent by the presence of ground forces in the enemy's midst. The impulse to culminate tactical battle by closing with and destroying the enemy must be balanced by the realization that fighting too close may play more to the advantage of enemy rather than friendly forces.”",
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                        "text": "“The president called upon the Marine emergency evacuation helicopter that the White House Military Office had stationed nearby in the event of a surprise Soviet nuclear attack. The flight across Narragansett Bay lasted just six minutes, as opposed to the hour Eisenhower would have spent on the ferry—and the helicopter, piloted by Virgil Olson, was nearly triple the size of the Bell Ranger passenger-wise. This, Eisenhower decided, was a much better option. Since the Air Force didn’t possess the large transport helicopters Eisenhower desired, the Marine Corps took over the presidential helicopter fleet. Within two months—lightning speed in government”",
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                        "text": "“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore? I’m probably hopelessly out of date but my advice is get real-world experience: Be a cowboy. Drive a truck. Join the Marine Corps. Get out of the hypercompetitive “life hack” frame of mind. I’m 74. Believe me, you’ve got all the time in the world. You’ve got ten lifetimes ahead of you. Don’t worry about your friends “beating” you or “getting somewhere” ahead of you. Get out into the real dirt world and start failing. Why do I say that? Because the goal is to connect with your own self, your own soul. Adversity. Everybody spends their life trying to avoid it. Me too. But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out.”",
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