Quotes About Combat

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

The keen Saracen blade sliced through the archbishop's shield down to his arm, but Turpin's aim was truer. Corsablis's turbaned head rolled in the dust as the prelate swung his mighty weapon. The Berber's steed raced on, bearing a headless rider who soon toppled from his mount. Turpin, galloping on to where the press was thickest, turned in his saddle and addressed the head where it lay: 'Scoundrel pagan, you've met your end! So be it always with the enemies of Christ!

his years of war: an utter helplessness in the face of this monstrous violence.

that in the larger sense of life's struggle, most of us are wounded in combat.

But that was war. Where ignorant armies clash by night.

I was security. A good right hook. A thousand yard stare.

develop the 100 word vocabulary taught to the Lao tribesman to make the rudiments of combat conversation. A few nouns, some basic single tense verbs, names of weapons and directions made up the pidgin English. Like spice, flavor was added by whichever additional words the Special Forces teacher felt appropriate. The basic word denoting the reproductive act, and its many wondrous and colorful variations, was by far the most popular and common.

You know what we call B-52s?" "BUFFs." "Yes Sir. Big ugly fat fuckers.

When Gonzalez and Canley were close enough to the machine gun they called for suppressing fire and then stood and hurled grenades. At the blast, they charged, firing their rifles on automatic, silencing the gun.

The director Stanley Kubrick, no doubt attracted by the unusual visuals of urban combat, set Full Metal Jacket in Hue, although in his film the battle is just a backdrop.

5) No hay pruebas para apoyar el argumento de que estas víctimas, casi todas niños pequeños, fueran parte de un combate o hubieran sido atrapadas en un enfrentamiento de fuego cruzado. Por el contrario, las pruebas apoyan fuertemente la conclusión de que fueron víctimas intencionales de una ejecución masiva extrajudicial.

There's only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin."3

The rule for your hips is simple: if you're on the bottom, you need to create space; if you're on the top, you need to take away space. You create space by moving the hips as far away from your opponent's hips as possible. You do the opposite if you're on top, you close any distance, you pressure down; you control your opponent's hips with your own.

I suspect alligators never get arm-barred; dinosaurs where probably safe from the submission as well, at least the T-rex.

I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

Malia said, "And where were you when the mortar hit?" The rapture drained out of the corporal's face. His face clouded. His hand dropped from his heart and grabbed the bottle of honey wine. After pouring a generous slug into his mouth, he swallowed it, shivered, and stared at them all with a haunted expression. "Stalingrad," he said. "The Elbow of the Don.

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed.