One More for Chesty

The American Story

Christopher Flannery

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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“Chesty” Puller was a Marine’s Marine. To this day, in Marine Corps boot camp, recruits are exhorted, “Do one more for Chesty! Chesty Puller never quit!” His combat service record is astonishing: he is the most decorated Marine in history. Chesty insisted that he did not love fighting. But if there was a fight, he wanted in on it, and he generally was. But the fighting spirit is not the only reason Chesty is revered by Marines. Bravery in combat is expected. He embodied something more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the American Story.
0:05.0	Stories about what it is that makes America beautiful and worthy of our love.
0:10.0	This is Chris Flannery with the Claremont Institute.
0:13.0	I call this one.
0:15.0	One more for Chesty.
0:20.0	Louis Burwell Chesty Puller was a Marines Marine.
0:25.0	To this day in Marine Corps boot camp, recruits are exhorted,
0:29.0	Do one more for Chesty.
0:32.0	Chesty.
0:32.6	Chesty Puller never quit.
0:35.4	His picture adorns buildings throughout the core.
0:38.4	His deeds and words and sea stories about him
0:41.4	are part of Marine Corps lore. His personality and character are deeply
0:46.3	embedded in marine culture. What makes a Marines Marine?
0:53.3	All American military services rightly think of themselves as America's guardians.
0:59.4	Proud Marines like to say they are the tip of the spear, the first to fight. The standard they want to be
1:06.2	measured by is expressed in the motto, No Better Friend, No Worse enemy.
1:17.0	Chesty Puller was born in West Point, Virginia in 1898, and at full growth, he stood 5 feet 8 inches
1:21.0	and weighed 144 pounds.
1:24.3	But every inch and every pound somehow became all marine.
1:28.9	He had a barrel chest, which probably accounts for his name, a square face and a pronounced jaw.
1:34.8	His combat service record is astonishing.
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