I try not to bombard you guys with too many videos but I saw this doc on the 2nd Platoon, Golf 2/5 (5th Marine Regiment) in Afghanistan and thought I would share.
The hard charging Devils of the 2/5 fought at Belleau Wood and other actions on the Western Front where they covered themselves in glory, mud, and blood, not necessarily in that order.
A German trench mortar—Minnenwerfer—captured at the Battle of Belleau Wood by the US Marines 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment while under the command of Col. Frederic M. Wise.
2/5 Marines gets their motto from some 98 years ago in Northern France when a company commander of the battalion, Captain Lloyd W. Williams was advised to withdraw by a French officer at the defensive line just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage on June 1, 1918. Williams replied: “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!”
