Quotes About Military

My father was in the Army. My older brother was in the Army. Those men and women go out there and put their life on the line. I respect that.

For me, I wouldn't mind if I never did another Olympics; nothing can beat London. The setting, the support, the military people. From start to finish, it was such fun. I had the most amazing time.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that the Americans arrive, they march into the camp, they take it over, and take charge. It's like, 'Everything's going to be fine now. We're here.' That's not how these guys operate. They're very different.

There are many aspects of the government that operate off a continuing resolution. It's difficult to do so for the military.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.

Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS.

The Humvee is an American military icon and will continue to be for decades. It is an essential part of U.S. military operations.

I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

I did pick up a few tolerably ripe and breezy expressions out in France. All through my military career there was something about me - some subtle magnetism, don't you know, and that sort of thing - that seemed to make Colonels and blighters of that sort rather inventive. I sort of inspired them, don't you know.

The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she's the voice of authority here, in the Salle d'Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

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It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his carefully sited mortars, but he did not hear them and he realized, suddenly and sickeningly, that the Chinese had not attacked across the spit of land. They were pouring across the ice, and had taken Dog Company in the rear.

Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap!

In retrospect, military defeats and victories acquire a false sense of inevitability about them, whether we are looking at the German defeat of France in 1940 or the claimed elimination of the last vestiges of Isis in 2019.

When US air strikes began the US did tell the Syrian government when and where they would be, but not the "moderate" rebels whom the US was publicly backing. The American military presumably calculated that anything they told the Free Syrian Army, the loose umbrella group of rebel units, would be known to ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra within minutes.