Quotes About Combat

The concussive force of grenades rattled men's brains to the point of madness.

grasped his right hand by the fingers and pulled them all the way back. His wrist made a muted snick noise when it broke, not the loud snap I expected. He let out a loud, agonized scream. His right hand—his gun hand, I assumed—dangled uselessly, like a marionette off its strings.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not butter

Tu comprends, ils sont venus dans leurs chars, avec leurs yeux vides. Ils pensaient que les chenilles des chars sont faites pour tracer la nouvelle loi des peuples. (...) La France est tellement civilisée, tellement amollie, pensaient-ils, qu'elle a perdu le sens du combat souterrain et de la mort secrète. Elle acceptera, elle s'endormira. Et dans son sommeil nous lui ferons des yeux vides.

Bees are a warrior's greatest enemy.

Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.

I drew one of my blasters

It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

mouthed the lyrics to the Queen song playing on my headset as I blasted one Glaive after another right out of the sky. And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the

I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip.

So these aliens, they really have Glaive Fighters?

life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

I aimed my rocket eighty-eight right into the torrent of enemy fighters and fanned the trigger on my flight stick to fire off a rapid volley of plasma bolts.

Pfc. Leonard J. Savitskie and his driver jumped into the car and swung its .50-caliber machine gun on the Krauts. An enemy mortar opened up behind the building and Savitskie, with a hand grenade, raced from his car behind the building under small-arms fire, lobbed the grenade and destroyed mortar and crew. The one-man task force then got into his armored

Se dice que esa mujer peleaba valientemente junto a él con un sable, y lo amaba con locura.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems in order to achieve the goal.

The dramatic news is confirmed: Che has died in combat. His belongings are described in vivid detail and other information is given that only those close to the scene could have known. The

In that narrow segment we would have three infantry divisions, side by side. Right behind them would be another infantry and two armored divisions. Once a hole was broken, the armored divisions would slam through several miles beyond, then turn right toward the sea behind the Germans in that sector in the hope of cutting them off and trapping them. The remainder

Throughout the war, it was always my endeavour to view my opponent without animus, and to form an opinion of him as a man on the basis of the courage he showed. I would always try and seek him out in combat and kill him, and I expected nothing else from him. But never did I entertain mean thoughts of him. When prisoners fell into my hands, later on, I felt responsible for their safety, and would always do everything in my power for them. p. 58

Leaving out trifles such as ricochets and grazes, I was hit at least fourteen times, these being five bullets, two shell splinters, one shrapnel ball, four hand-grenade splinters and two bullet splinters, which, with entry and exit wounds, left me an even twenty scars.

Hemos perdido mucho, tal vez todo, también el honor. Nos queda una cosa: el glorioso recuerdo del más maravilloso ejército que jamás haya existido y del más grandioso combate que jamás haya tenido lugar. Mantener su memoria en medio de esta época de renegados y de atrofia moral es el más altivo deber de todo aquel que luchó por la causa de Alemania no sólo con el fusil y la granada de mano sino también con el alma y el corazón.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.