“Dear Earth” quotes from Space: Above and Beyond

Parents of marines have lost their sons for 300 years

I've been getting an earful of bitching and moaning about pilots getting deployed as ground-pounders, hear this c.f.b (clear as a fucking bell), this is not the Air Force, this is the Corps, air/ground, combat element of The 51st M.E.U. (Marine Expeditionary Unit), every Marine a rifleman. Therefore, you will fight on command, where needed, how needed, do I make myself clear??

Lt. Nathan West

And if one day you should receive a yellow envelope from The Marines, don't bother to open it, reread this letter and know how much your sons loved one another and you, and that we are once again together, with all my love, your son.