Desperate Marine tried to woo woman with fake email from Jim Mattis

A lovesick US Marine once tried to woo a fellow service member by “hacking” Maj. Gen. Jim Mattis’ computer and sending her a glowing email from his account, the former defense secretary told a gathering last week, according to a report.

“By the way, Pfc. So-and-So is the greatest Marine in the entire division,” the private first class wrote the young woman, Mattis said at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon near his hometown in Washington state, .

“Great initiative, not the best judgment,” he added in the anecdote, which was meant to illustrate the hard-core — and take-charge — qualities the Corps seeks to instill in its leathernecks, according to the paper.

“A private first class does not want to se𝐆e a two-star general,” added the no-nonsense Mattis, who earned the nickname “Mad Dog,” apparently to his chagrin.

“He was young enough to make a mistake like that, which would have been an ethical mistake up above. … He got punished by being assigned to my personal staff,” Mattis said.

“It’s like all organizations in the world, the leadership of the Marine Corps gets the behavior they reward,” he added.

Mattis, who apparently was leading the 1st Marine Division at the time of the email, resigned a year ago after President Trump called for༒ the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, where they had been assisting Kurdish-led forces battlin🐟g ISIS.

The retired general has been in the spotlight recently promoting his me🤡moir, “Call Sign Chaos: Learni⛎ng to Lead.”

Chaos is the retired general’s preferred nom de guerre, which he earned as a colonel leading Marines in Afghanistan. It reportedly stands for “the colonel has an outstanding solution.”