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A bleg from a young Captain...

...Mind you, he might be in his thirties, they're all young to me anymore...  If you were born after I was commissioned, yer young.

This Marine needs some help.  So, all you lurkers out there copy this off and circulate it amongst your buddies, and let's see if we can run this one down. 

I remember the poster, too.  Someone we know, or someone someone we know knows, knows this.

No.  I'm *not* going to diagram that sentence.

The bleg:

Gentlemen,

I’m trying to find an image of a poster I saw up in Fallujah at RCT-6’s HQ when I was there in 2007. It was a pencil drawing of a haggard grunt with and admonishment to the staff of something to the effect that “everything you plan, he must do.” I can’t for the life of me remember the full quote and google is not proving helpful. Any idea? Thanks.

S/F!

T.H.
CAPT, USMCR
Some Staff Job
Some Headquarters

Go. Row well. Facebook it, email it.  Search through your archives.  Bring me the head of this poster image.

Don't make me go all National Lampoon on you...

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It really sounds like a Patton quote. I'll keeping looking.
 
I've seen similar, not that exact one.  Used a photo instead of a drawing.

The particular one I'm thinking of was over the door in FUOPS at IJC HQ in Kabul.
 
Sounds like a mutation of this one

"Always do everything you ask of those you command." -- George S. Patton
 
Almost sounds like a Bill Mauldin drawing.
 
Hey, Saker! Quit watching the little twinkly lights in the hills for a bit and see if you can find this'n...
 
 "Genghis Khan said of one of his officers--"No man is more valiant, no man has rarer gifts, but as the longest marches do not tire him, as he feels neither hunger nor thirst, he believes that his soldiers do not suffer from such things. That is why he is not fitted for high command. A general should think of hunger and thirst, as he may understand the suffering of those under him, and he should husband the strength of his men and beasts. - "Leadership and Morale," by Wing Commander S.G. Tackaberry, RCAF, Canadian Defence Quarterly, Vol. XV, No. 1, October 1937
regimentalrogue.com/quotes/quotes_leadership6.htm

Cheers