Being a Truck Driver I have had a lot of opportunity to here a lot of great quotes applied to May, 15 1975. Here are some of my favorites. If you have one that you would like added send me line.
Told by Capt. Jim Davis at Gunny Mac's funeral, referencing the final withdrawl from West Beach. "Gunny I don't think we're gonna get to have that beer in Subic." Gunny's response "Thats what I like about you Jim your always thinkin about the important shit."
Col Johnson Commander of Ground Forces during his after action debrief. "I have seen some squad leadering in the sky before but this beats all I've ever seen."
Capt. Jim Davis. "When you got your elbows in the sand and your feet in the water you don't own much real estate."
Lt. Mike Cicere. "We started handing out grenades like popcorn"
Lt. Harry T. Williams. "I took a nap"
Lt. Col Bob Blough "GODAMMIT VERN GET ME AN AIRCRAFT"
Lt. Dick Keith's when he thought the chopper was going down on the way back to Utapo. (in fact they were headed towards the Coral Sea.) "Yeah, this is about right considering how our day has been going. Now we're going swimming"
GYSGT Francis A. McGowin. "One of my young Marines from years before rose to the rank of Major in the intelligence field. While at III MAF, he decided to look at the top secret Koh Tang file. It no longer exsists. Everything including opinions, conclusions, and blame has been destroyed."
RM2 Eddie (EJ) Oswalt. From the Wilson Squawk Box Recordings. "I'm gonna smoke a cigarette."
Lt. John (Cool Hand) Lucas. Shortly after the crash of K-23 on the East Beach Lucas made contact with Cricket and was trying to give them the position of the downed Marines. To which Cricket sharply replied "Get off the net we're trying to find a downed chopper with Marines."
Courtesy of Edd Protho. "When you're up to your ass in alligators, its often difficult to
remember that your initial objective was to drain the damn swamp." - Unknown
