More: War to Chesty Puller was simply a matter of kill or be killed. He openly condoned the shooting of prisoners. He once ordered his artillery to fire on a supporting army unit if it exposed his marines by retreating. Puller's tactics were built around one word: attack. "I'd follow that man to hell," said one marine, "and it looks as though I may have to."
> -----Original Message----- > From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:55 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Today's Patraeus: Wow. > > Tactical retreat isn't the same thing complete withdrawal, you know > this > man. > > He's also the highest decorated marine and probably killed more people > than > you know. > > <qoute> > In the Korean war, Puller led the landing at Inchon. Then the Chinese > Communists came swarming across the Yalu, and once again, the marines > handed > the toughest job to Puller. He was put in command of the rear guard > that was > to cover the marines' retreat in subzero weather from the Chosin > reservoir. > Ordered to abandon equipment and vehicles, Puller not only kept > everything > he had but collected many trucks that the Army had abandoned along the > way. > He loaded the wounded into trucks and Jeeps, strapped frozen bodies on > bumpers and hoods, and set out to fight his way to safety through the > encircling hordes of Chinese. "We're not retreating," he told his > marines. > "We've about-faced to get at more of those bastards." > </quote> > > http://tinyurl.com/32uw9z > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:04 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Today's Patraeus: Wow. > > > > > tBone wrote: > > > Yup, and used their intestines to lace his boots. > > > > > > > If I remember my history right, wasn't he the guy who, in the longest > > retreat in American history said, "we're not retreating, we're just > > attacking in a different direction." > > > > Because wan't that his east coast NK retreat? > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:242408 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
