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Chesty Puller Chesty Puller, in full Lewis Burwell Puller, (born J, West Point, Virginia, U.S.—died Octo, Hampton, Virginia), United States Marine Corps officer who was the most decorated and venerated Marine in the history of the Corps.
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Read More »Chesty Puller, in full Lewis Burwell Puller, (born June 26, 1898, West Point, Virginia, U.S.—died October 11, 1971, Hampton, Virginia), United States Marine Corps officer who was the most decorated and venerated Marine in the history of the Corps. Across three wars and two counterinsurgency campaigns, Puller won five Navy Crosses and earned an unrivaled place in the hearts of Marines as the quintessential Leatherneck—“hard as the frontal armor of a tank, tenacious as a bulldog, courageous to a fault, and scornful of anyone or anything that did not wear the eagle, globe, and anchor insignia.” Later years and assessment Disenchanted by the conduct of the war in Korea and dismayed at the poor preparation for combat of some Army units, Puller spoke his mind to reporters when he returned to the States, briefly creating controversial headlines. Already known by the media as “one of the most colorful figures in Marine Corps history,” an article correctly characterized his “savagely realistic message, full of bitterness for what has already happened in Korea and full of grave apprehension for the future.” The experience did not stop him from advocating strongly for tougher training and did not derail his assignment to command the only brigade in the Corps. Following a tour heading up an amphibious training group, he was promoted to major general and took command of the 2nd Marine Division in North Carolina in July 1954. Already experiencing high blood pressure and heart problems, after a long inspection of an infantry battalion on a hot day he suffered a stroke that put him in the hospital. He fought as hard to stay in the Corps as he had against any enemy, but a Navy medical board deemed him unfit and he was forced to retire in October 1955 at the honorary rank of lieutenant general. His resentment hardened his bias against staff officers, fueled an obsession that he had been pushed out for his outspokenness, and heavily influenced Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller (1962), the semiautobiographical account of his life authored by the well-known historical writer Burke Davis. He lived a quiet retirement in Saluda, Virginia, marked only by his testimony in favour of tough training at the sensational McKeon trial at Parris Island in 1956. His son, Lewis Puller, Jr., became a Marine infantry officer and suffered horrendous wounds after stepping on a booby-trapped artillery shell in Vietnam in 1968. Chesty died in October 1971 following a series of strokes. The younger Puller would go on to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Fortunate Son (1991), as a tribute to his father, and die by his own hand in 1994. Long after his death, Puller remained a conspicuous presence within the Marine Corps. Marines often invoked Puller’s most memorable (although sometimes apocryphal or misattributed) quotes to showcase the bravery and tenacity of the Corps, while also reinforcing Puller’s idealized image as a “Marine’s Marine.” In 1957 the Corps’ official bulldog mascot was dubbed Chesty, a name that his canine successors retained into the 21st century. In 2017 the U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Lewis B. Puller, a forward-operating mobile sea base to be used for naval support and littoral special operations missions. Perhaps most enduring, though, is the unofficial “lights out” slogan of the Corps: “Good night, Chesty, wherever you are.” Jon T. Hoffman
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