Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
Nicknamed 'Mad-Dog Mattis' by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn't an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining.
Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high.
Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.
The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.