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Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

Fourteen personal decorations in combat, five Navy Crosses (the nation's second highest award for valor), one Army Distinguished Service Cross plus a long list of campaign medals, unit citation ribbons and other awards. These achievements sum up the exemplary 37-year career of one of the greatest Marines legends of all time: Lieutenant General "Chesty" Puller. He began his Marine Corps career with the "Horse Soldiers" in China, then on to four World War II campaigns, the Korean War and expeditionary service in China, Nicaragua, and Haiti. True to himself and the Corps, Chesty never was one to mince words. "We're surrounded," he said in battle. "That simplifies the problem."

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