Quotes About Soldiers

Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness.

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

Renoir had a strong feeling about his fellow soldiers. He'd never disrespect them by putting the war down.

We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.

I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Panzergrenadiere, Vorwärts, zum Siege voran! Panzergrenadiere, Vorwärts, wir greifen an! —Robert Seeger, "Lied der Panzergrenadiere

He reflected on his hitherto reflection that soldiers and sailors were, upon the whole, quite different creatures. 'And perhaps they are, too: yet perhaps drink, in very large quantities, may make the difference less evident.

One defense expert, writing for the International News Service, noted that the final cost of bringing a soldier into the 1941 maneuvers, over and above the cost of keeping that same man in camp for the same amount of time, was approximately $ 22. He added: "That's probably the cheapest cost there has ever been for turning camp soldiers into field soldiers. And it's field soldiers that you fight wars with." 33

The permutations of English corruption in India were endless – affection for servants, for peasants, for soldiers, pretence at understanding the Indian intellectual or at sympathizing with nationalist aspirations, but all this affection and understanding was a corruption of what he called the calm purity of their contempt.

Masked policemen and masked soldiers manned checkpoints on the main road

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

101st Airborne

Few Americans are aware that many of the soldiers who fought during the American Revolution were black – and unlike the later segregated regiments in the Civil War, many of the units in the American Revolution were fully integrated, with black patriots fighting and dying side by side with their white fellow comrades and soldiers. 5

Yes, the Large Birds o' Prey They will carry us away, And you'll never see your soldiers any more!  —Rudyard Kipling

No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.

I start thinking about what happened and then I start thinking about why I'm still here. It's pointless. They say on TV that the soldiers want to be there? I can't speak for every soldier, but I think if people went around and made a list of names of who fucking thinks we should actually be here and who wants to be here, ain't nobody that wants to be here, because there's no point. What are we getting out of fucking being here? Nothing.

He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of them had written on the door of a metal locker that was in the room he'd been given to live in. Sex, potato soup, and Johnny Cash, it said.

Y en una sociedad que se niega a ver a los combatientes como iguales; donde se niega que haya guerra, donde unos mueren asesinados y otros mueren dados de baja, donde los soldados pobres son sacrificados como patriotas y los rebeldes pobres son sacrificados como monstruos, no hay manera de exigirles a los enemigos que se comporten como héroes homéricos.

Ursúa y Castellanos hablaron hasta que la noche azul llena de estrellas cubrió las tierras bajas de la sierra. Todavía a medianoche, cuando en el campamento buena parte de los soldados dormían y sólo los guardias vigilaban en los pasos altos, seguía junto a la fogata el rumor inacabable de ese diálogo, como de dos náufragos que acabaran de llegar otra vez al mundo, porque no hay gran amistad que no comience por un largo intercambio de historias.

What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.