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70. Art Corbett, correspondence with the author, January 20, 2012.
71. Krulak, First to Fight, 3.
72. USMC, Sustaining the Transformation, 17.
73. Cooling and Turner, “Understanding the Few Good Men.”
74. Salmoni and Holmes- Eber, Operational Culture, 281.
75. Smith, The Few and the Proud, 248.
76. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/46366 MS01, Veterans History Project.
77. Spooner, Marine Anthology, 270.
78. Roch Thornton, correspondence with the author, October 8, 2016.
79. Boudreau, Packing Inferno, 30–31.
80. O’Connell, Underdogs, 58.
81. Ibid., 28–29.
82. Terriff, “Innovate or Die,” 477.
83. Ricks, Making the Corps, 197.
84. O’Connell, Underdogs, 10–11.
85. Krulak, First to Fight.
86. Terriff, “Innovate or Die,” 484.
87. Cooling and Turner, “Understanding the Few Good Men.”
88. Salmoni and Holmes- Eber, Operational Culture, 277.
89. Hoffman, “Marine Mask of War,” 3.
90. Terriff, “Innovate or Die,” 484.
91. Maj. Gen. Larry Nicholson, conversation with the author, January 11, 2012.
92. Terriff, “Innovate or Die,” 486. Cushman’s original quote can be found in
Gen. Robert E. Cushman, “A Weapon System Defined,” Leatherneck (June
1972).
93. 2nd Lt. Valerie J. Cranmer, “The Myth of Our Amphibious Roots: How Our
Small Wars History Has Been Usurped,” Marine Corps Gazette (October
2011): 18.
94. Ibid., 12.
95. Michael E. O’Hanlon, “Be All the Army Can’t—or Won’t—Be,” Marine Corps
Gazette (November 2010): 12.
96. Cranmer, “Myth of Our Amphibious Roots,” 14.
97. O’Connell, Underdogs, 13.
98. Krulak, First to Fight, xv (italics in original).
99. Blackman, foreword, Marine Corps Values and Leadership.
100. Avant, “Institutional Sources,” 421.
101. Ricks, Making the Corps, 198.
102. Spooner, Marine Anthology, 344.
103. O’Connell, Underdogs, 142.
104. Cranmer, “Myth of Our Amphibious Roots,” 14–16.
105. Ibid., 14.
106. Scott Schonauer, “Poll: War Boosts Image of Army, Marines,” Stars and Stripes,
June 20, 2004, http://​www​.stripes​.com​/news​/poll​- war​- boosts​- image​- of​- army​