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Somebody ran up to Colonel Chesty Puller at the Chosin Reservoir to tell him the terrible news that his Marines were completely surrounded by the Chinese army. Puller looked at him and said, more or less, good. Now we can shoot at them in every direction. Lewis Puller, called Chesty because of his barrel chest and his bulldog walk, was already a living legend before Korea. He is still the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps, a man who would end his career with five Navy Crosses, and there are Marines to this day who end their night with the words good night Chesty, wherever you are. He was the old breed, a Marine who believed in the rifle, the bayonet, and never, ever leaving a man behind. In late November 1950, at a frozen lake in the mountains of North Korea called the Chosin Reservoir, everything went wrong. Around thirty thousand UN troops, most of them Marines, suddenly found themselves cut off and encircled by something like a hundred and twenty thousand Chinese soldiers who had poured across the border in secret. The temperature dropped to thirty and forty degrees below zero. Weapons froze. Blood froze. Rations froze solid. The Marines were outnumbered, surrounded, and stuck at the far end of a single narrow mountain road with the enemy dug in on every hill above it. Most units in that spot break. Chesty Puller's did not. His attitude, and it spread to every man in the regiment, was that being surrounded was not a disaster, it was an opportunity. He is supposed to have said it plainly. We are surrounded. That simplifies our problem. And the other line his Marines loved. They are in front of us, behind us, and on both flanks. They cannot get away from us now. So the Marines did not surrender and they did not panic. They turned around and fought their way out, attacking in a new direction, as Puller and the other commanders put it. They came down that one frozen road through seventy miles of ambush and roadblock, hauling their gear, and this is the part that mattered most to men like Chesty, bringing their wounded and their dead with them. They refused to leave their people behind. They fought their way clean out of the trap and did enormous damage to the Chinese armies that tried to destroy them. For his part in it Puller earned that fifth Navy Cross, and the breakout from Chosin became one of the most legendary fighting retreats in the history of the United States military. Chesty Puller spent his whole life proving a simple idea. It is not the numbers against you that decide a fight. It is whether the men will stand. His men always stood.

ForgottenWarPic's tweet photo. Somebody ran up to Colonel Chesty Puller at the Chosin Reservoir to tell him the terrible news that his Marines were completely surrounded by the Chinese army. Puller looked at him and said, more or less, good. Now we can shoot at them in every direction.

Lewis Puller, called Chesty because of his barrel chest and his bulldog walk, was already a living legend before Korea. He is still the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps, a man who would end his career with five Navy Crosses, and there are Marines to this day who end their night with the words good night Chesty, wherever you are. He was the old breed, a Marine who believed in the rifle, the bayonet, and never, ever leaving a man behind.

In late November 1950, at a frozen lake in the mountains of North Korea called the Chosin Reservoir, everything went wrong. Around thirty thousand UN troops, most of them Marines, suddenly found themselves cut off and encircled by something like a hundred and twenty thousand Chinese soldiers who had poured across the border in secret. The temperature dropped to thirty and forty degrees below zero. Weapons froze. Blood froze. Rations froze solid. The Marines were outnumbered, surrounded, and stuck at the far end of a single narrow mountain road with the enemy dug in on every hill above it.

Most units in that spot break. Chesty Puller's did not. His attitude, and it spread to every man in the regiment, was that being surrounded was not a disaster, it was an opportunity. He is supposed to have said it plainly. We are surrounded. That simplifies our problem. And the other line his Marines loved. They are in front of us, behind us, and on both flanks. They cannot get away from us now.

So the Marines did not surrender and they did not panic. They turned around and fought their way out, attacking in a new direction, as Puller and the other commanders put it. They came down that one frozen road through seventy miles of ambush and roadblock, hauling their gear, and this is the part that mattered most to men like Chesty, bringing their wounded and their dead with them. They refused to leave their people behind.

They fought their way clean out of the trap and did enormous damage to the Chinese armies that tried to destroy them. For his part in it Puller earned that fifth Navy Cross, and the breakout from Chosin became one of the most legendary fighting retreats in the history of the United States military.

Chesty Puller spent his whole life proving a simple idea. It is not the numbers against you that decide a fight. It is whether the men will stand. His men always stood.

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