Marine Identity Quotes

Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.

A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.

I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.