Alfred M. Gray Quotes

United States, Soldier
June 22, 1928

Alfred M. Gray Jr. (born June 22, 1928) is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1987–91. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1991 after 41 years of service.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

Alfred M. Gray
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

Alfred M. Gray
- Mother
- Father
- Democracy

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Alfred M. Gray
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

Alfred M. Gray
- Lonely
I go where the sound of thunder is.

Alfred M. Gray