Quotes About Army

This regiment included some of the most famous army officers of the era, including Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, then–Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee, Major George H. Thomas, Captains Edmund Kirby Smith and Earl Van Dorn, then-Lieutenant Fitzhugh Lee, and Lieutenant John Bell Hood—all of whom became general officers during the Civil War and five of whom commanded armies.

The Army, however, found ways to adapt. It lobbied hard for atomic artillery shells, atomic antiaircraft missiles, atomic land mines.

The celestial choir that appears to the shepherds is usually called the "heavenly host"; the CEB offers "heavenly forces" (2:13), which is the better translation for today. This is God's army.

I didn't want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the Guard where, after going to weekend meetings, you'd do six months of active duty, with three months of basic training and three months of on-the-job training.

I joined the Rhodesian army in 1975, having trained for six weeks outside Bulawayo.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I am a West Point graduate and an Army veteran.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

The United States Army is really messing with my plan to get pregnant.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.

My tattoos... I'd be in the Army right now if I hadn't got 'em.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

On the day Rome fell, that great American Army numbered eight million soldiers, a fivefold increase since Pearl Harbor. It included twelve hundred generals and nearly 500,000 lieutenants. Half the Army had yet to deploy overseas, but the U.S. military already had demonstrated that it could wage global war in several far-flung theaters simultaneously, a notion that had "seemed outlandish in 1942," as the historian Eric Larrabee later wrote.

It was the indispensable institution, led by the indispensable man, and the coupling of a national army with its commander marked the transformation of a rebellion into a revolution. "Confusion and discord reigned in every department," Washington wrote in late July. "However we mend every day, and I flatter myself that in a little time we shall work up these raw materials into good stuff.

Discipline," Washington had written in 1757, "is the soul of an army." Certainly

The dawn was bright and blowing. Angels perched unseen on the shrouds and crosstrees. Young men, fated to survive and become old men dying abed half a century hence, would forever remember this hour, when an army at dawn made for the open sea in a cause none could yet comprehend. Ashore, as the great fleet glided past, dreams of them stepped, like men alive, into the rooms where their loved ones lay sleeping.

The 28th had regained full strength but only with many replacements untrained as infantrymen, under officers and sergeants plucked from antiaircraft units and even the Army Air Forces. Hemingway, who for several weeks would live in a fieldstone house south of Stolberg, suggested that it would "save everybody a lot of trouble if they just shot them as soon as they got out of the trucks.

An enterprising shortwave radio operator managed to pick up the Army–Notre Dame football game and broadcast it to the 16th Infantry Regiment over the ship's public address system.

merchantman sunk in the Atlantic, the 500th U.S. ship lost to U-boats since Pearl Harbor. The domestic news was also war-related, if less febrile: the first meatless Tuesday had gone well in New York; penitentiary inmates with only one felony conviction were urged to apply for parole so they could serve in the Army; and a survey of department stores in Washington revealed that "there aren't any nylon stockings to be had for love or money.