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We had fancied our task would be different, only to find we were to be trained for heroism as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustomed ourselves to it. We learned in fact that some of these things were necessary, but the rest merely show. Soldiers have a fine nose for such distinctions.
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A soldier must be like a bullet, constantly ready to be fired.' I learnt that by heart. You go to war in order to kill. Killing is my profession - that's what I was trained to do.
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Fair Katherine, and most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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It'll be an honour to serve you, sir," he added.
"In a French battalion?" Gudin teased him.
"If you don't flog, sir, and you don't carve up pricks, then it'll be more than an honour.
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Implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot.
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Now, where were we? Read me back the last line." " 'Read me back the last line,' " read back the corporal who could take shorthand.
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English dragoons
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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
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I am a soldier in my father's army.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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Your job is to be the hardest motherfucker in your platoon," he said while pointing at me across the desk. "Do that, and everything else will fall into place."
He added that I was assigned to Bravo Company, call sign Hitman, and wished me luck.
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What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,
to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?
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Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.
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...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.
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He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears. The
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Good convention, with the military class and the
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I am not a f**king pleasure girl, damn you! I'm an officer!
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soldier's first duty, his reason for being, is not to fight. Fighting is the final recourse for any civilized people. His duty is not even to preserve the peace; that is a police officer's job,
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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Officer down. Officer down."
"I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury.
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Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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. . and Phillips, go to Staff Sergeant Pole, have him assign you to platoons." "Platoons, Gunnery Sergeant?" "Got extra food stored in your ears, Phillips?
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The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
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Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage ...
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Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
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instructor - and
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The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
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Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
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was an officer holding out his sword,
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I make honorable things pleasant to children. A teacher from Sparta
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I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].
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A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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Do you really understand all this army stuff?

It helps not to be too bright, sir.
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Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
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This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.
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I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous.
Ibram Gaunt
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Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines)
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The true soldier fights
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There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
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Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.
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You my door gunner?" Dempsey said. "Door gunner, aircrew, combat medic, and ass kicker, sir." "PJ?
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Was once on trauma duty when a young man about twenty years old was rolled in, shot in the buttock.
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In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.
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Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.
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You're an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.
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A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
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Corporal, afterwards Lieutenant, Christie, of the P.P.C.L.I., was one of the individual pioneers of sniping.
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Discipline is the soul of an army.
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That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
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The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.
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Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.
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...You, you look -- bien -- exactly what you were, a high-ranking British officer, used to unwavering obedience and with the air of a Greek god, gazing down on us mere mortals.
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YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.
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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
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We're dealing with one of the worst kinds of killer." "What kind's that?" asked the lieutenant. "Patient.
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Once a gunner, always a gunner
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I don't know if
you know this about me, but I am a soldier.
Or the leader of God's army, but okay, let's be modest.
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
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I don't look at the wound. I don't need to. I watched the Commandant as she carved it into me, a thick-lined, precise K stretching from my collarbone to the skin over my heart. She branded me. Marked me as her property. It's a scar I'll carry to the grave.
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I was a lieutenant in World War II.
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Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.
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Ready when you are Sergeant Pempbry.
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You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.
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One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
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I wanted to be a soldier. Someone who would earn standing in Winter. Someone Sir would look at with pride. Someone Mather would look at and -
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He is sharp," admitted the colonel, "but that's all there is to him. He can wiggle and squirm like a snake; but he's got no dignity, and no learnin', and what he don't know about law would make a book bigger than the biggest dictionary you ever saw." "Land's
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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Do we expect a fight, Gunnery Sergeant?" "We always expect a fight, Private Kichar. We're Marines; it's what we do.
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The good sense of Colonel
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A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.
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Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?
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An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.
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A soldier is not always just a soldier.
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There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.
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With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all
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He kissed me gently. 'Lieutenant Malachi Sokol, reporting for duty, Captain.'
'What?'
'I've been assigned to your field unit,' he whispered as he nuzzled my neck. Oh, man. Heaven. Help. Me. 'I'm afraid I'm already being shockingly insubordinate.
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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
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Is it going to hurt?"
"You bet."
Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner.
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To be court-martialed - for any reason - is eight times as bad for an officer as for an enlisted man. Offenses which will get privates kicked out (maybe with lashes, possibly without) rate death in an officer. Better never to have been born!
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Knight without fear and without reproach.
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I've never shot a civilian except when under orders.
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There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
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A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.
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Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.
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The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
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In war, discipline can do more than fury.
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Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.
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You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
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Sergeant Til: Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you today.
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You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright.
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It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Okay boy's and girls, let's learn how to fight. -Sergeant Til
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.