Quotes About Army

I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

Too many of Montana's own have fallen in the line of duty fighting radical Islamic terrorists, like 31-year-old husband and father of four, Blackfeet warrior Army Corporal Tony 'Many Hides' of Great Falls.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign up for the Army. They want to be heroes and save their neighbors from disaster.

As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.

I served in the Army. I worked at blue-collar jobs. I washed dishes and bused tables.

Marx observed that by organizing native regiments in their Indian Army the British had unwittingly created 'the first general centre of resistance which the Indian people was ever possessed of'.

In March 1748, different Sikh jathas or groups agreed to form a Dal Khalsa, an army of the Singhs, under the leadership of another Jassa Singh—Jassa Singh Ahluwalia81—who advanced the idea that the Khalsa should one day govern Punjab.

there will be but one feeling throughout the army, a feeling that our prestige is gone, and that feeling will be more dangerous than any other.

Like the patriot camp followers, American women who cast their lot with the British army were primarily refugees with no other means of support.

women who were widowed or made homeless joined the nearest army, offering their services more to avoid starvation than to further their political beliefs.

Since militia units in most cases elected their noncommissioned officers, the men who served in these positions could not be too harsh or arbitrary. Democracy in the army? A new and strange concept, indeed.

When their patriotic neighbors came to the reservation to sign them up for the army, proud Catawbas seized on the opportunity to shine once again.

On October 8 Washington convened a war council to determine "whether it will be adviseable to re-inlist any Negroes in the new Army—or whether there be a Distinction between such as are Slaves & those who are free?" The Council voted "unanimously to reject all Slaves, & by a great Majority to reject Negroes altogether.

On January 16, 1776, Congress reluctantly resolved "that the free negroes who have served faithfully in the army at Cambridge, may be re-inlisted therein, but no others."154 During the course of 1776 all northern states issued some sort of restrictions on the recruitment of African American soldiers.

Since free people of color, almost invariably poor, came cheaply, prior restrictions against their enlistment were either overturned or ignored. Despite national policy, even slaves were allowed to enlist; some towns paid bounties to masters who allowed their slaves to join the army.

By treating all residents as American rebels, the occupying army made a false assumption come true. "Instead of destroying the Revolution," states historian Joseph Tiedemann, "the British army became one of its agents.

The combined British, Hessian, Canadian, and loyalist forces besieging the fort came to about 650; the Indians matched that number, effectively doubling the strength of the king's army.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.