Audiobook - Leading Marines - Chap 1 "Our Ethos"
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M C W P six tack 11 Leading Marines Chapter one hour ethos. Marine human material was not one wit better than that of the human society from which it came, but it had been hammered into form in a different forge. Hard in with a different fire. The Marines were the closest thing to legions the nation had. They would follow their colors from the shores of home to the sea coast of Bohemia and fight well at either place. A Marine Corps officer was still an officer and a sergeant behave the way good sergeants had behaved since the time of Caesar expecting no nonsense, allowing none. And Marine leaders had never lost sight of their primary. Their only mission, which was to fight reference. One quoted T. R. Fehrenbach. Being a Marine is a state of mind. It is an experience some have likened more to a calling than a profession. Being a Marine is not a job, not a paycheck. It is not an occupational specialty. It is not male or female, majority or minority. Nor is it a rank insignia, stars, bars or Chevron's air only indicators of the responsibility or authority. We hold it a given time. Rather, being a Marine comes from the Eagle Globe and anchor that is tattooed on the soul of every one of us who wears the Marine Corps uniform. It is a searing mark in our innermost being, which comes after the rite of passage through boot camp or officer candidate school. When a young man or woman is allowed for the first time to say, I am a United States Marine. And unlike physical or psychological scars, which over time tend to heal and fade and intensity, the Eagle Globe and anchor on Lee grow more defined, more intense. The longer you are a marine, once a Marine, always a Marine among Marines, there is a fierce loyalty to the core that persists long after the uniform is in mothballs. Woven through that sense of belonging like a steel thread is an elitist spirit. Marines air convinced that being few a number, they are selective, better and above all, different reference to this matter of being different lies at the heart of our leadership philosophy and has been nourished over the years by combining the characteristics of soldiers, sailors and airmen. The result is a C soldier an odd conglomeration that talks like one dresses like another and fights like them all. The determination to be different and remain different has manifested itself in many ways over the years, from military appearance to strict obedience, to orders to discipline behavior, to adherence to traditional standards and, most of all, to an unyielding conviction that we exist to fight. Marines have been distinguished by these characteristics. From the beginning. A sense of elitism has grown from the fact that every Marine, whether enlisted or officer, goes to the same training experience. Both the training of recruits and the basic education of officers going back to 18 05 have endowed the core with a sense of cohesiveness enjoyed by no other American service reference. Three. This matter of being different is at the very heart of leading Marines. It defines who and what we are by reflecting the mystical chords of the mind that bind all Marines. What we are, what we have been, what Marines will always be is enduring. There is yet another element of being different that defines Marines, and that is selflessness, a spirit that places the self interest of the individual. Second to that of the institution we know as the core that selflessness is stronger nowhere in American society than among Marines. Our ethos has been shaped by ordinary men and women heroes who showed extraordinary leadership and courage, both physical and moral, as they shape the special character. That is the essence of our core. They are heroes and leaders who are remembered not by their names or rank or because they received a decoration for valor. They're remembered because they were Marines. The story is told that in June 1918 during the First World War, an American lady visited one of the field hospitals behind the French army. It happened that occasional casualties of the Marine Brigade were picked up by French stretcher bearers and evacuated to French hospitals. And this lady, looking down a long, crowded ward, saw on a pillow a face, unlike the fiercely whiskered Gallic heads there, displayed in rows, she went to it. Oh, she said, Surely you are an American. No, ma'am, the casualty answered. I'm a marine preference. For 65 years later, a veteran of the terrorist bombing in Beirut stood amidst the rubble, carnage and despair surrounding his fallen comrades barraged by questions from news reporters. Should you be here, should anyone be here? Should the United States pull out the young Lance corporals? Answer was straightforward. Where else should I be on the United States Marine? If anyone must be here, it should be Marines. Another Beirut veteran, wounded and evacuated to a hospital in Germany, unable to talk or see, was visited by the common dot. As the general stooped beside the Marine to say a few words of comfort into his ear. The lance corporal reached up to feel the stars to make sure that the man talking to him was who he claimed to be unable to see or speak week from a concussion and other injuries. The young Marine motion for something with which to write. He could have written anything. He could have asked for anything. Instead, he wrote Semper Fi. Always faithful, he was concerned more about his core and his fellow Marines that himself reference five. The U. S. Marine success in battle is not a function of how Maney show up, but who they are reference. Six individual Marines like those described above, are the bedrock upon which our cores spirit is built from the first day of recruit training to their first assignments to their first celebration of the Marine Corps is birthday. Each Marine is infused with an understanding of the deeds of his or her predecessors. Recruit training, both officer and enlisted, has long been the genesis of the enduring sense of brotherhood that characterizes the core. New recruits are told the day they enter training that, as one Marine leader put it, a Marine believes and is God in his country and his core in his buddies and in himself Reference seven. What happens on the parade decks of Parris Island and San Diego or in the woods of Quantico is what makes Marines. It is the installation of an intangible esprit, along with a complicated, specific knowledge of soldiering reference. Eight Marines undergo a personal transformation at recruit training. There they received more than just superb training, their ingrained with a sense of service, honor and discipline. It is there, as a former recruit Depot commanding general said that Marines develop a sense of brotherhood, interdependence and determination to triumph. The course History is full of tales of individual triumphs. Daily Butler Polar vessel own Streeter Huff, Vargas, Peterson, Wilson, Barrow and countless others that exhibit the indomitable spirit of Marines in combat and in surmounting day to day challenges sustaining that spirit are old battles long forgotten, that secured our nation. Scores of skirmishes far off, such as Marines have nearly every year traditions of things endured and things accomplished, such as regiments hand down forever reference. Nine. The spirit was clearly evident in the dark opening days of the Korean War. In July 1950. The First Provisional Marine Brigade was rushed to Korea to assist the army and stemming the North Korean tied in August. A British military observer of the desperate fighting in and around mere yang sent the following dispatch. The situation is critical in mere yang, Maybe lost. The enemy has driven a division size sailing across the night. Tong more will cross the river tonight. If mere yang has lost, we will be faced with a withdraw from Korea. I am heartened that the Marine Brigade will move against the knack Tong salient. Tomorrow they're faced with impossible odds, and I have no valid reason to substantiate it. But I have the feeling they will halt the enemy. These Marines have a swagger. Confidence in hardness. Upon this thin line of reasoning, I cling to the hope of victory reference. 10. The following morning, the Marines attacked under the close air support of Marine Goal Wing Corsairs, two of the lead battalions. Undermanned, thin rifle companies pushed across the open rice fields and up the steep ridge. Three times the Marines reached the top three times. They were thrown back. The fourth time they stayed reference 11. The Marines face tonight of repeated infiltrations in a series of heart attacks. As dawn approached, it became evident that the Marines were there to stay, and by daylight, the Communist retreat became a rout. When night descended again, the only North Koreans left in the Knack Tong bulge were dead ones. Amid the flotsam of erect division, 34 large caliber artillery pieces were taken by the brigade. Enemy casualties exceeded 4000 Reference 12. The thin line carried the day, not because they have the strength of numbers or firepower. They carried the day because they were Marines. The spirit of the past continues. Today is new. Heroes stepped forward to take their place in the pantheon. It lives on in such phrases as Semper Fidelis, Uncommon Valor, Every Marine, A Rifleman and First to Fight a Spree. Aggressiveness and courage are the essence of our core Marines, as they always have carry on that tradition as a force and readiness, able and willing to go anywhere and do anything. Trained men who will stand and fight are never obsolete. It was not the Bowman but the Longbow, not the Calvary man, but the horse, which vanished from the scene. Men, the man, the individual who is the Marine Corps symbol in stock and trade constitute the one element which never changes reference. 13. Every Marine a Rifleman There is both a practical and moral dimension to the credo. Every Marine a rifleman reference. 14. The force structure of the core reflects its central purpose an expeditionary force and readiness. And because it is expeditionary, that is also austere. Austerity places a premium on the role of every Marine. There are no rear area Marines, and no one is very far from the fighting during expeditionary operations. The success of each of these operations depends on the speed and flexibility with which Marines build combat power. Marines fighting with maneuver elements are backed up by fellow Marines who labor unceasingly to support the mission by building logistic bases, running truck convoys, distributing supplies and fighting when needed. Teoh This is nothing new. The first Marine aviator to earn the Medal of Honor in World War two, Captain Henry Hank L. Rod was a fighter pilot on Wake Island. His aircraft destroyed after 15 days of heroic defence of the island. He died leading a platoon of Marines. Actions of Marines like Captain L. Rod and others continue to demonstrate that every Marine is a rifleman. These actions occur with such regularity that non Marines often show surprised on learning that there are any specialties in the core other than the infantry. This perception on the part of others is part of what makes the core the core and transcends the issue of occupational specialties. There's almost nothing more precious to a Marine than a fellow Marine. This traditional bond flows from the combat training, which all Marines receive officer and enlisted, and the shared danger in adversity inherent in expeditionary operations. Those men on the line, where my family, my home, they were closer to me than I can say closer than any friends had been or ever would be. They had never let me down, and I couldn't do it to them. I had to be with them rather than let them die and me live with the knowledge that I might have saved them. Men I now knew do not fight for flag or country for the Marine Corps or Glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. Any man in combat who lacks comrades who will die for him or for whom he is willing to die is not a man at all. He is truly damned reference 15. This cohesion between Marines is not a function of a particular unit within the core. It is a function of the core itself. When a Marine reports to a unit, he or she may be unknown personally but is a known quantity professionally, regardless of anything else known about them. Their leaders know that they have been trained as Marines, and that they bear consequently that indelible stamp of riflemen. Nowhere is the effect of this more evident than when Marines were exposed to danger or the war. Fellow Marines remote from the action are usually uneasy Marines air going in harms way, and there is an unnatural feeling of being left out among those not able to go. This attitude is born of the confidence that every Marine can fight, that every Marine can contribute to the mission and that every Marine is duty bound to share in the danger and the risk of every other Marine in the core. One Marine father sending his son into the core summed it up this way. May our core not have to go into harm's way on your watch, but if it does, may you never be the second Marine there. This spirit of confidence comes from training and tradition. Each individual Marine, because of the fighting tradition of the core and the toughness of the training, is confident of his own ability and that of his buddies. That is why Marines fight with discipline and steadfastness in the toughest situations. When victory or survival becomes doubtful, why they turn to their beliefs in themselves, their buddies and their units fighting for one another, their unit and the Marine Corps. This confidence in themselves and one another very often spells the difference between victory and survival and defeat and Annihilation Service with the Marine Corps means service with the team. Everything that the Marine Corps does is a team effort. Every unit from the Marine Expeditionary Force down to the fire team is organized into a team, a group of highly select, well trained Marines all pointed to one objective during the fight out for the frozen chose in 1950 a military observer watched with astonishment as gunners from a Marine artillery gun crew integrated with cooks, bakers and clerks to form a rifle platoon under the command of a lieutenant from motor transport function perfectly as part of a rifle company many times the success of the entire movement dependent on the fighting ability of a single platoon, a company. In many cases, these units were made up of the Marines and subordinate units that the day before were in another command. The success of the whole operation was possible only through the local successes of the small units. The small units were successful because individual Marines are team players trained to handle themselves in any situation and to subordinate their own desires to the objectives of the team or for 16 the sense that every Marine is a rifleman demonstrated at the chosen reservoir and in 100 other places is at the heart of the ethos of the core. This unspoken feeling among Marines is more than tradition or the cut of the uniform. It is the reality and adrenaline of the shared experience of danger and violence. The proximity to death that which Oliver Wendell Holmes, a famous American Supreme Court justice and Civil War veteran, called the touch of fire to visit the Marine monument deep in Belleau Wood is to come to grips with the timeless importance of this unspoken feeling for the Marine Corps. As the shadows lengthened and that quiet glade, the image of the Marine on the monument seems to come to life to move resolutely forward into the face of withering German fire forever frozen in that bright June morning of 1918. In one sense, he embodies the spirit of the thousands of Marines past and present who have given their all for country and core. But he also stands for the thousands of Marines yet to come on whom this nation will depend for its security and to carry its flag in every climb in place and in him. And then there is the certainty that their sense of duty and honor will be strengthened by the assurance that every Marine is first and foremost a rifleman. Soldiers of the Sea unique among soldiers of the world, Marines are accustomed to service both ashore and afloat. The Marine Corps is maritime. Character has shaped the core since its inception. In 17 75 Congress resolved that two battalions of Marines be raised, such as are good semen or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage at sea when required reference. 17 The Congress went on to commission the first naval officer in our nation's history, the senior Marine officer of the Revolution. The historic partnership between the Navy and the Marine Corps is a heritage that continues today. The anchor in our emblem symbolizes that the individual Marine remains a maritime soldier, a soldier of the sea. Marine officers are naval officers. Our aviators are naval aviators. As early as 17 98 the secretary of the Navy noted that the cores missions were of n amphibious nature, and we have been members of the Department of the Navy since 18 34. The partnership was a close one initially and grew closer over time. So close that sometimes one forgets that the Navy Marine Corps are separate services under the authority of a single secretary. The early Marines served primarily on board ships as part of the ship's company. They always had a secondary role to serve his expeditionary forces whenever or wherever needed. Marine Captain Samuel Nicholas is amphibious expedition to New Providence Island in the Bahamas in 17 76 and Marine Lieutenant Presley O Bannon's 18 04 landing in Tripoli, where the first deployments of American forces from home soil. They were the precursors to the role Marines played in World War Two. Korea, Lebanon in 1958 in the Dominican Republic in 1965 in Vietnam. Lebanon again in 1982. Grenada in Southwest Asia. And scores of other places since the nation was a maritime one in 17 75 when Marines first crossed the quarter decks of the Continental Fleet, and it is no less. Today, 3/4 of the world's population lives near a coastline, and four out of five world capitals air within 300 miles of the sea. The vital relationship between the United States Navy and Marine Corps brings unique and powerful naval capabilities that are key to meeting our nation's security interests. Ours is a world ideally suited for the employment of warriors who come from the sea, whose past in potential future battle grounds are mainly in the watery maze green water in coastal regions that comprise the liberals of the world. Operations along these liberals require special training and preparation along Marine Corps lines. It is not enough that the troops be skilled infantrymen and jungle men or artillery men. They must be skilled watermen and jungle men who know it can be done. Marines with Marine Training reference 18 The Marine tradition, such as regiments, hand down forever. The individual marine recruit and officer candidate training every Marine, a rifleman and our maritime character contribute to our heritage separately and collectively, they set us apart from other fighting forces and are the cement that glues the Marine Corps together and gives Marines a common outlook that transcends their grade unit or billet. Self image is at the heart of the Marine Corps, a complex set of ideals, beliefs and standards that define our core are selfless. Dedication and elevation of the institution over self is uncommon elsewhere. Ultimately undefinable, this self image sets Marines apart from others and requires a special approach to leading. Consequently, Marine leaders must be forged in the same crucible and steeled with the same standards and traditions as those placed in their charge standards in traditions as old as our nation itself. Those who know Marines give many reasons why America needs a Marine Corps. But first and foremost, Marines exist to fight and win reference 19 from this duty. From this reason for being, everything else flows. If it doesn't, it is meaningless. This spirit is the character of our core. It is the foundation of our cohesion and combat effectiveness. And it gives Marines that swagger, confidence in hardness necessary for victory qualities seen in the hills of Korea and in hundreds of other engagements before. And since Marines believe that to be a Marine is special, that those good enough to become Marines Air Special and that the institution in which they are bonded is special. That is why the legion analogy is so appropriate for the core Marines far flung performing dangerous, sometimes apparently meaningless and often overlooked missions find strength and sense of purpose, simply knowing that they are Marines in that mystical grouping they know as the core. Among the five armed services of our nation, four have service songs on Lee. The Marine Corps has its him for scores of years. Before it became recently fashionable to stand for all service songs, Marines always stood when our him was played. And to this day, while others stand with cheers and applause to their service song, Marines stand quietly, unwaveringly at attention. As the hem of their core is played. Marines are different. The first Marine Division, fighting its way back from the chosen reservoir in December 1950 was embattled amid the snows. From the moment the column struck its camp, it had Guru by midnight, after heavy loss through the day, it had vivo act, aka Tory still surrounded. Still far from the sea, the commanding general was alone in his tent. It was his worst moment. The task ahead seemed hopeless. Suddenly, he heard music outside. Some Marines on their way to a warming tent, were softly singing. The Marines, him all doubt left me said the general. I knew then we had it made reference. 20. For more than 200 years, the study performance of the Marine Corps has elevated it to the epitome of military excellence. It is an elite fighting force renowned for its success in combat, esprit de corps and readiness always to be first to fight more than anything else. Marines have fought and won because of a commitment to a leader and to a small brotherhood where the ties that bind our mutual respect and confidence shared privation, shared hazard, shared triumph, a willingness to obey and determination to follow. Reference 21 The man who will go where his colors go without asking who will fight a phantom foe in jungle and mountain range without counting and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship without complaint is still what he has always been. From imperial Rome to separate Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions air made his pride in his colors and his regimen, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic to fit him for what he must face and his obedience to his orders as a Legion Eri. He held the gates of civilization for the classical world. He has been called United States Marine Reference 22. The Marine Corps is vision of leading is less concerned with rank, self identity recognition or privilege than the essence of our core, the individual Marine and the unyielding determination to persevere because Marines and the core do not fail. Our vision of leading is linked directly to our common vision of war fighting, which needs leaders devoted to leading capable of independent and bold action who are willing and eager to assume new and sometimes daunting responsibilities willing to take risks not because they may succeed, but because the core must succeed. This has always been and always will be. What leaving Marines is all about Chapter one ethos. Notes and work cited reference one. Tr ferenbach this kind of war. New York Bantam Books 1991 Page 1 83 and 1 82 Reference to Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulik, USMC retired first to fight an inside view of the U. S. Marine Corps. Annapolis, Maryland Naval Institute Press, 1984 page 1 55 Reference three If it reference for Captain John W. Thomas and Jr USMC Fixed bayonets New York Charles Scribner's sons, 1927. Page Roman nine, Reference five on 25. October 1983 2 days after the bombing, then commandant of the Marine Corps General P. X Kelly visited the U S Air Force Regional Medical Center. Advised Bod in Germany, where he met with Lance Corporal Jeffrey National, who had been critically injured. Reference six. This is from remarks by General Robert H. Barrel before the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Second of June 1981. Reference seven. Much of the material in this section the U. S. Marine is taken from General Karl E. Monday Junior. What is it that makes Marines Marine Corps Gazette, March 1993 Page 15 unless otherwise noted. Reference. Eight. Malcolm S. Forbes. They know their business. Forbes. December 1st 1963 Page 33 Reference nine. Thomason Page Roman 14. Reference 10 Ferenbach, Page 1 68 Reference 11. Colonel Robert Debs Final Jr. USMC. Soldiers of Annapolis, Maryland United States Naval Institute, 1962 page 5 42 Reference 12 If it page 5 43 reference 13 Obit page 603 Reference 14 Much of the material in this section Every Marine a Rifleman is taken from General Carly Monday Junior's Every Marine A Rifleman Marine Corps Gazette, January 1993 pages. 12 through 13 unless otherwise noted. Reference. 15. William Manchester Goodbye, Darkness. A Memoir of the Pacific War, Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown and Company. 1979 Page 3 91 Reference 16. Master Sergeant CV Crumb, FMC are what it means to be a Marine Marine Corps Gazette, January 1960 pages. 20 through 21 with textual changes reference. 17 Much of the material in this section Soldiers of the Sea is taken from General Carly Monday juniors. What is it that makes Marine's Marine Corps Gazette, March 1993 Page 15 unless otherwise noted. Reference. 18 Earl H. Ellis 7 13 Hotel Operation Plan Advanced base operations in Micronesia, 1921 Washington, D. C. U S Marine Corps Museums Personal papers collection. Page 20 Reference 19. Much of the material in this section The Marine tradition is taken from General Carly Monday Junior. What is it that makes Marine's Marine Corps Gazette, March 1993 Page 14. Unless otherwise noted Reference 20 Armed Forces Information Service, The Armed Forces Officer, Washington, D. C. Department of Defense 1975 Pages. 56 through 57 Reference 21 Crew lack pages. 1 60 through 1 61 Reference 22 Ferenbach Page 6 40 End of chapter one hour ethos M C W P. 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