Who was the highest decorated US Marine?
Chesty Puller – a legend in the Corps. From wikipedia: “Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and was the most decorated Marine in history. Puller was the first, and only, United States Marine to receive the Navy Cross, the U.S. Navy’s second highest decoration after the Medal of Honor, five times. During his career, he fought guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua, and participated in some of the bloodiest battles of World War II and the Korean War. Puller retired from the Marine Corps in 1955, spending the rest of his life in Virginia.” Worth mentioning is Major General Smedley D. Butler. He was the most decorated Marine in US history at the time of his death in 1940, and is one of only 19 people to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor twice. In 1935, General Butler wrote the classic, “War is a Racket”, which described the military-industrial complex in the United States. A brilliant work by
