Quotes About Combat

We were the group that built the roads by day that the Vietcong traveled at night.

I enjoy traveling, teaching and fighting. It's in my blood.

Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

Talking about what any one section of our society has to do to combat racism just stops people outside that group asking difficult questions of themselves. We keep looking at symptoms and not treating the cause.

Getting hit is part of the job. You don't want the first time you're getting punched to be in the fight because there's a lot of shock and awe and you won't react well. I like to get hit in sparring. I don't want to get concussed, or I don't want to be getting knocked out, but I want some shock treatment to prepare me for the fight.

I think carpet bombing is an absolutely tremendous idea if the enemy accommodates you by laying himself out like a carpet in the middle of the desert without any civilians or infrastructure around him. Sadly, the Islamic State has learned that that is a losing proposition and does not accommodate us in that way.

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.

I go to body combat classes. There's something very tribal about being in a room with 30 other women punching and kicking!

Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that.

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.

The noise was unbelievable … to the point where you could hardly hear the screams of men." Moreton Waitzman, US 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach

Each little field [had] one gate … so each a little battlefield… So the Germans fought in that one, and when they got pushed out they fought in the next one." Patrick Delaforce, Royal Horse Artillery, 11th Armoured Division

Combat is an interaction between human organisations. It is adversarial, highly dynamic, complex and lethal. It is grounded in individual and collective human behaviour, and conducted between organisations that are themselves complex. It is not determined, hence uncertain, and evolutionary. Critically, and to an extent in a way which we currently overlook, combat is fundamentally a human activity.12

The main object of the dogfight was to get on the opponent's tail – hence the name. The German word for

dogfight' is 'Kurvenkampf'' i.e. turning fight.

The Easy Company men began throwing grenades at the retreating enemy. Compton had been an All-American catcher on the UCLA baseball team. The distance to the fleeing enemy was about the same as from home plate to second base. Compton threw his grenade on a straight line—no arch—and it hit a German in the head as it exploded. He

Second Lieutenant William Carey and two other men continued the fight, even when Carey's skull was creased by a musket ball.

Some 50 Americans were killed, 39 wounded, and 5 missing, for a total of 94 casualties. According to Gage, the Redcoats suffered 65 killed, 157 wounded, and 27 missing, for a total of 272 casualties.41 The patriots exhibited excellent marksmanship for shooting flintlocks in anger, many for the first time in their lives. By comparison, U.S. forces in Vietnam expended 50,000 rounds to cause a single enemy casualty.

Faith has no use for the sword, because those who ride with the sword to defend their faith ride with the devil by their side.

There's just no comparison between these hard men, some fight with their bare hands, some with their brains and some with weapons. Some have a sixth sense for survival, avoiding death with catlike ease. I don't include any world champ at this or that, but I do include men that would wipe the floor with any world champion at anything you wanted to throw at them.

Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference.