Posted on May 10, 2016
Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With Reporter
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I don't know if this has been posted before but it is an interesting story. A long read but well worth it. This man is a hero in my mind and should receive promotions and medals, not a discharge.
Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With Reporter
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You know, old crazy George Patton almost resigned from the Army in 1940 to go to Canada and accept a major's commission.
Somebody has got to protect your people that you need in war.
Major Pete Ellis was a really important officer for the Marine Corps almost 100 years ago. But he had a bad drinking problem. But the senior guys stuck with him.
By Col David H. Wagner - Originally Published June 1976
The entire strategy of World War II in the Pacific was implemented in much the same way as this remarkable Marine had predicted twenty years earlier.
"His is heart was dauntless and full of courage," reads the plaque at Quantico commemorating LtCol Earl Ellis, LtCol USMC, who died in the Japanese mandated island of Koror, the Caroline Islands on 12 May 1922; and has since become the most mysterious man in Marine Corps history.
What is the mystery surrounding the death of a Marine Corps officer in the Japanese mandated Caroline Islands in the 1920's? Why did the official State Department death message refer to him as a civilian representative of a San Francisco export firm?
The accomplishments of "Pete" Ellis are little known outside the Marine Corps, yet as a strategist, planner, and teacher we can only surmise as to his tremendous influence upon naval action in the Pacific some twenty years later. Pete Ellis was indeed a prophet, strategist, planner, visionary, and . . . (perhaps) . . . a spy!
Ellis died in the Pacific in 1922 while carried on Marine Corps rolls as "On Leave in Germany and France;" by the State Department as a representative of the Hughes Export Firm of San Francisco, California. Why did death sound in the Carolines in 1922 for this brilliant strategist and author of the grand plan for combat against the Japanese Empire to occur twenty years later. A planner so farsighted that he foresaw Pearl Harbor and the destruction of the U.S. Pacific Fleet by the Japanese twenty years before it happened. A tactician who estimated the island by island invasion of the Japanese Empire Islands using names like Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa, and Guam at a time when they were virtually unknown. The man who foresaw the use of torpedo planes when the latest plane of the time could only fly 90 miles per hour! The man who envisioned the role of the Marine Corps as a mighty amphibious force when at the time the greatest role of the Corps was guarding Naval bases."
- See more at: https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/destiny-pete-ellis#sthash.36ft97Qc.dpuf
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Somebody has got to protect your people that you need in war.
Major Pete Ellis was a really important officer for the Marine Corps almost 100 years ago. But he had a bad drinking problem. But the senior guys stuck with him.
By Col David H. Wagner - Originally Published June 1976
The entire strategy of World War II in the Pacific was implemented in much the same way as this remarkable Marine had predicted twenty years earlier.
"His is heart was dauntless and full of courage," reads the plaque at Quantico commemorating LtCol Earl Ellis, LtCol USMC, who died in the Japanese mandated island of Koror, the Caroline Islands on 12 May 1922; and has since become the most mysterious man in Marine Corps history.
What is the mystery surrounding the death of a Marine Corps officer in the Japanese mandated Caroline Islands in the 1920's? Why did the official State Department death message refer to him as a civilian representative of a San Francisco export firm?
The accomplishments of "Pete" Ellis are little known outside the Marine Corps, yet as a strategist, planner, and teacher we can only surmise as to his tremendous influence upon naval action in the Pacific some twenty years later. Pete Ellis was indeed a prophet, strategist, planner, visionary, and . . . (perhaps) . . . a spy!
Ellis died in the Pacific in 1922 while carried on Marine Corps rolls as "On Leave in Germany and France;" by the State Department as a representative of the Hughes Export Firm of San Francisco, California. Why did death sound in the Carolines in 1922 for this brilliant strategist and author of the grand plan for combat against the Japanese Empire to occur twenty years later. A planner so farsighted that he foresaw Pearl Harbor and the destruction of the U.S. Pacific Fleet by the Japanese twenty years before it happened. A tactician who estimated the island by island invasion of the Japanese Empire Islands using names like Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa, and Guam at a time when they were virtually unknown. The man who foresaw the use of torpedo planes when the latest plane of the time could only fly 90 miles per hour! The man who envisioned the role of the Marine Corps as a mighty amphibious force when at the time the greatest role of the Corps was guarding Naval bases."
- See more at: https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/destiny-pete-ellis#sthash.36ft97Qc.dpuf
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The Destiny Of Pete Ellis | Marine Corps Association
ARTICLE: By David H. Wagner - Originally Published June 1976: The entire strategy of World War II in the Pacific was implemented in much the same way as this remarkable Marine had predicted twenty years earlier...
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Like he said, they knew what they were doing. He risked everything for her. I couldn't do it. He played with fire and got burned. They best part is he isn't complaining about it and taking his charge like a man.
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Highly recommend his book. Fascinating read. A guy in the book that had to escort him is a former colleague at USASOC.
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