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2015-02-08 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Frank G 2015-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Great article Frank! You can sure see Chesty's facial features in his daughter's face. Dad served with Chesty at the end of Guadalcanal, through Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. He really admired Chesty and told me stories when I was young.

And he hated MacArthur---Dugout Doug---and taught satirical song about him when I was a young lad.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-08 00:49|| 2015-02-08 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Here ha go AP.

Dugout Doug MacArthur lies a shaking on the Rock
Safe from all the bombers and from any sudden shock
Dugout Doug is eating of the best food on Bataan
And his troops go starving on.
Dugout Doug's not timid, he's just cautious, not afraid
He's protecting carefully the stars that Franklin made
Four-star generals are rare as good food on Bataan
And his troops go starving on.
Dugout Doug is ready in his Kris Craft for the flee
Over bounding billows and the wildly raging sea
For the Japs are pounding on the gates of Old Bataan
And his troops go starving on...

Taught to all boots by osmosis in 1942 according to Dad, also Bonzai! (In case we lose ). :)

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-08 06:12|| 2015-02-08 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Not to diminish great American and United States Marine Chesty Puller, but MacArthur was right about North Korea.

Dej'avue all over again, the untimely death of Patton, the removals of Generals MacArthur and Petraeus, the retirement of General Mattis. Could it be a sort of narrowing the political field before anyone actually takes the field ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-08 06:25|| 2015-02-08 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 My Dad would be pleased - he was a Corpsman attached to 2/7 1MARDIV in Korea. When I was little, every night Dad would close my nighttime prayers with "and God bless you Chesty, wherever you are."

Posted by GORT 2015-02-08 10:38|| 2015-02-08 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 My father prayed to the Maryland and it worked.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-08 12:29|| 2015-02-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 To the tune of Bless Em All

They sent for MacArthur to go to Talagi
but General MacArthur said no.
He gave as the reason,
It wasn't the season,
Besides there was no USO.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-08 12:32|| 2015-02-08 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Mr. B. Mac abandoned all pre war plans for the Phillipines and was forced into a long retrograde into the pennisula of Battan. This was where he should have started. He was out smarted, out maneuvered but not out numbered by the Japaneese. He disregarded a clear war warning and every damn damn air craft in the islands were wing tip to wing tip when visitors from Formosa arrived. A defense against sabotage? Meh.

That said he was the first to use armour against U.S. Citizens, so he got that going for him.

I stop, he was a jackass and Truman had his ass pegged.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-08 12:37|| 2015-02-08 12:37|| Front Page Top

#8 USNS Chesty Puller, to be accurate.

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-08 16:12|| 2015-02-08 16:12|| Front Page Top

#9 ...on the fifth whack

Gotta be a snark in there somewhere. (Recovering USAF)

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp1540 2015-02-08 16:44|| 2015-02-08 16:44|| Front Page Top

#10 I stand corrected. Semper Fi, Pappy

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-08 18:01|| 2015-02-08 18:01|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sure the Screaming Ugly Girls will be up in arms over such a misogynistic name as "Chesty." I'm sure Gen. Puller is one of those marked for removal from history books to make room for the Harvey Milks and the Ceasar Chavezes. You know. The people who really made America great. /sarc off/

Posted by Lowspark 2015-02-08 18:01|| 2015-02-08 18:01|| Front Page Top

#12 If it's any consolation: The long-lived City Delicatessen in Hillcrest, San Diego (our gay neighborhood) was bought and re-opened as "Harvey Milk's Cafe"...and after less than a year went broke. Apparently, Harvey's name is not gold

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-08 18:05|| 2015-02-08 18:05|| Front Page Top

#13 You'd think a ship named for Chesty would be a real gator, a fighting ship, not a supply/log platform.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-02-08 18:25|| 2015-02-08 18:25|| Front Page Top

#14 When I was in Ranger School we had a bunch of Force Recon Marines in my class. We did lots of pushups and were told to do one extra for the "Big Ranger in the Sky." Well, no surprise, my Marine Ranger buddies all would do the one extra for the "Big Ranger in the Sky" and then "One for Chesty Puller"

The stories about that guy are endless and should be taught in schools.

And those panty-waist politically correct sissy boys that youknowwho is putting into flag positions are a disgrace compared to fighters like him.

Posted by mystic was my code name 2015-02-08 22:18|| 2015-02-08 22:18|| Front Page Top

#15 @#13: It appears that Mobile Landing Platforms are the new Frigates.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp1540 2015-02-08 22:23|| 2015-02-08 22:23|| Front Page Top

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