General Mad Dog Mattis' famous quotes:

[super-bee_ski]

I love him already!

ENJOY!

1. “I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.”

2. “The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some ******** in the world that just need to be shot.”

3. “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you **** with me, I’ll kill you all.”

4. “Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”

5. “Marines don’t know how to spell the word defeat.”

6. “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

7. “The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.”

8. “You are part of the world’s most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.”

9. “There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”

10. “No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”

11. “There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.”

12. “You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.”

13. “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.”

14. “I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

15. “Demonstrate to the world there is ‘No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy’ than a U.S. Marine.”

16. “Fight with a happy heart and strong spirit”

 

[NJRR]

Semper Fi !!!!!!

 

[1967coronet440]

This was a perfect cabinet pick, the crowd in Ohio yesterday went wild when he announced mad dog

 

[69a100]

I'm kinda partial to Curtis myself!

 

[MarPar]

love it!!!! MAD DOG! finally, a General with a set of balls! and cast iron ones at that!!!

 

[oldbee]

Trump said the closest to Gen.Patton he knows. Nuff said..Semper Fi

 

[Outlaw525]

Hoo rah President Trump!

#9 hangs on my office wall:
“There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”

 

[Brandy]

I was sitting in church last Sunday praying that Mattis would be his pick.

 

[the mississippi madman]

One of my hero's and probably one of the greatest generals of the 21st century

 

[super-bee_ski]

I was sitting in church last Sunday praying that Mattis would be his pick.

Did I tell you today that I love you Ghost?

 

[Glenwood]

hilarious! We need a guy like that up here to shake things up!

 

[Budnicks]

That's great Ski

Hell yes, I love him already too...

Thank GOD, finally getting away from the
"weak & feckless, limp wristed ideology"
we've seen for the past 8 {IMO many more} years...

 

[Brandy]

Did I tell you today that I love you Ghost?

Do you really? My, my. I'm going to assume you mean in a buddy, pal kind of way. Love you too brother.

 

[Beekeeper]

hilarious! We need a guy like that up here to shake things up!

We need several guys up there like that!

 

[the mississippi madman]

Another maddog that was a badass and had some good quotes

The Situation:

Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver was a U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret who served in the MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam -- Special Operations Group). He slept with a rifle, and packed as many as six revolvers during combat (plus a shotgun and his regular machine gun). You know that action flick trope where the bad guys tell him to disarm, and the badass hero just keeps removing weapons until it gets ridiculous? Shriver invented that. Sometimes referred to asthe Real Rambo, Mad Dog survived twice as many missions as the average member of his unit -- a unit which exceeded a 100 percent casualty rate because everybody in it was wounded (usually more than once) and fully half of them were killed.

It's not entirely clear when Shriver earned the "Mad Dog" moniker, but it's possible that it was in relation to Klaus, a German Shepherd that he'd brought back from Taiwan and which was his closest companion. Once, Klaus yorked on the floor of the Mess after some recon men gave him beer as a gag, and they rubbed his nose in it and threw him outside. When Shriver got wind of this, he went in, drank a beer, set a revolver on the table, and dropped a deuce on the floor. He said, "If you want to rub my nose in this, come on over." No one did.

US ArmyAnd Klaus was promoted to squad leader.

In 1966, Shriver's recon team was surrounded by North Vietnamese Army soldiers in Cambodia. AK-47 fire rained down on them from all around. As a Forward Air Controller watched the enemy close in on the team from overhead, he radioed down to Shriver with perhaps the biggest understatement of the war: "It sounds pretty bad."

"No. No," Shriver responded. "I've got 'em right where I want 'em, surrounded from the inside!"

The Aftermath:

Clinking through life as a goddamned walking arsenal comes in handy once in a while. Perhaps not shockingly, turns out it really helps during wartime. Shriver and his team shredded the jungle like they were in the minigun scene from Predator, putting a tear in Mother Nature's eye and countless bullets and grenade fragments in their NVA aggressors. The attackers were driven back, and with some overhead help from the FAC, the team was safely extracted.

US ArmyMad Dog chose to hitchhike back to base.

Eventually, Shriver succumbed to an overdose of toxic masculinity. On April 24, 1969, on approach to the Central Office for South Vietnam as part of the Hatchet Force, his team was pinned down by a machine gun bunker. Shriver rushed the bunker and ... went MIA. He was 27 years old -- or 189 in Mad Dog years.

 

[aldal]

And they are already talking about blocking his appointment because he has not been a civilian for the required 7 years and needs a special waiver....BS politics.

 

[Runner 68]

Did I tell you today that I love you Ghost?

Spoken like a true AF weeny Ski.
Do they give you guys classes on that type of behavior?

 

[5.7 hemi]

Don't knock the AF! Them boys were kind enough to medivac me from Israel to Walter Reed Medical Center after my 3 hour Blackhawk ride from Sinai, Egypt. The medic's kept me pain free and were always checking my vitals. Needless to say, I've got their back, anytime, anywhere!

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Just a picture of the next secretary Of defense...

 

[Brandy]

We live in a very dangerous time and I don't trust most civilians to navigate it competently. Here's why. They see the world as what they believe it is and what they hope to change it into. Military leaders see the world as it is in reality and know in their bones that changing it is dangerous and hard. Do you want to trust someone like John Kerry, or O'Bummer to represent us with IRAN or someone like Mattis who see's them clearly and understands their agenda. If you were the Ayatollah and were sitting across from O'Bummer what would you be thinking? How about across from Mattis? See what I mean? We should not be "playing at politics" these days but should instead be " all hands on deck" globally. While i'm up on this soapbox how about Taiwan? Why the hell did we not talk to them for decades while we DID talk to China? One is a democratic nation with freedom and elections while the other is China. WTH? Screw China.