Quotes About Military

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.

For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.

SGT Steven C. Ganczewski, a Ranger in editor Chuck Holton's unit, had been asked by a high-school guidance counselor why a young man with his potential would join the Army. Someone with his potential--as if selfless service, even to the point of giving one's life for a cause greater than any one of us--is somehow beneath one's potential. Thankfully, Patrick Henry and George Washington didn't feel that way in 1775.

newer and more modern cemeteries, devoid of cypress trees or any other vegetation, were usually situated well outside the new quarters and surrounded by tall concrete walls, just like factories, military bases, and hospitals.

Because here's the thing?we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the enemy and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get. Your kind of murder only works among civilians. And you were too cocky, too stupid, too insane to realize it.

What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy. Then they'd come home and take over Earth. OK, not that.

Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.

When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.

The PCs were willing, but the powers that be didn't want to commit troops.

When armies benefit from being perceived as necessary, and war provides a means of gaining prestige and leverage over the government," said Loaf. "Then victory ends a very profitable game. So you play the game of war only fervently enough to keep your military budget high. Nations can get used to a fairly high level of combat attrition without noticing or caring that nobody's actually trying to win, and nothing but the lives of a few soldiers is at stake.

launches usually moved into the armies together

Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets.

The soldiers called the bullets Lazarus pills: when possible, they could be picked up and used again.

Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans, Cess said. There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles and used condoms.

A week later I went on R and R and three weeks after that I was back in an AC-130 all strapped in and ready to die all over again.

To reform a military system always demands reformers of ruthless will and high professional talent. Yet it demands even more – a favourable political climate.

These guys are the world's biggest welfare queens, after all—suck up government money in military contracts, use it to issue bonds, get the government to pass laws that make your bonds into safer bets, then go after even bigger and better laws. I'm guessing they never spend a penny if they can get Uncle Sucker to foot the bill.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

Does ROTC mean his family couldn't afford tuition?