Chesty Puller

Lewis Burwell Chesty Puller was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua, and fought in World War II and the Korean War.

Puller was born in West Point, Virginia, to Matthew and Martha Puller. His father was a grocer who died when Lewis wasyears old. Puller grew up listening to old veterans tales of the American Civil War and idolizing Thomas Stonewall Jackson. He wanted to enlist in the United States Army to fight in the Border War with Mexico in 1916, but he was too young and could not get parental consent from his mother.

Source: Wikipedia