Quotes About Military

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

There's been a lot of disappointments with the Iraqi army, no doubt about that. Some units have performed well, especially their special operations units. But a lot of their units have not.

DCGS is hard to learn. It takes a long time. You have to use it all the time, which means it's not a simple technology that people are used to and can buy off the shelf today. And frankly, it doesn't do what it's touted to do. That's why you see units out on the battlefield asking for very similar things.

In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes against advancing Taliban units and more or less obliterated a Taliban column of a thousand men that had been dispatched from Kandahar. It was the Taliban's final play to remain in power.

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

The military is a path of the unknown. I wasn't in denial about the risk.

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.

German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back.

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served.