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Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
La Posta, eighty miles east of San Diego. That's where they taught us stealth, camouflage, and patrolling, the essential field craft of the commando.
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.
A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!
We remain essentially a nation under siege.
A call to duty, a call for service.
Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.
I am a soldier in my father's army.
The guard station, and the dozen heavily armed guards who manned it, were accompanied by an anti-aircraft gun and a large tank. "What the hell do you need a tank for?" I asked the first guard who wanted to know my name.
We are not, indeed, in the front-line, but only in the reserves, yet in every face can be read: This is the front, now we are within its embrace.
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?
Where are our allies, Aelin? Where are our armies?
needed chiefly for the defence of the homeland
Oh-h-h-h - Hidey, tidey, Christ Almighty Who the hell are we? Flim, flam, God damn We're the infantry ...
The war-sick camp,
General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.
raiding parties and pirate crews. This is in stark
Them. Too much activity, right where the colonel
The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
We are your army.Army-- Jodi Meadows
Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!
Next morning at first light to Guy's surprise the troopship at last emerged from the haze of myth and was seen to be solidly at anchor beyond the mouth of the harbor.
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station ...
We have regiments as innumerable as the sands ... And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.
Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
But I can't shake the feeling that, while they stand with me, there's no one beside me. Even with an army at my back, I am still alone.
On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
I cast my lot in with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me.
A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.
During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.
commander like this one. Ser
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.
Somewhere in the dead space between house and shelter civilians became soldiers.
Southeastern Training Command over possibly
A siege is a deadly dull.
It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.
Even with an army at my back, I am still alone. Maybe
South Jersey is home to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, one of the finest military installations in the world, and it was my honor to represent the base and all of those who serve there.
Where are my guards? (Wulf)
Oh, one is right here, but he's not feeling very talkative. Death has a way of making even the chattiest of people rather quite. As for the other ... he's ... oh, wait, dead now. (Stryker)
We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.
I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers ...
People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads.
With such incentives to brave deeds, and with the trust that God is with us, your generals will lead you confidently to the combat - assured of success. General commanding
Fifty men will accompany you, fighting under your command."
"I can't take them,' said Beckram. "Haverness only has leave for a hundred men. I believe I'm the eighty-fifth."
"You'll take them," said Duraugh, standing up. "The Blue Guard's mottos is 'We fight as one." You will only be one.
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
town, it says. Depart immediately
I feel an army in my fist.
I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.
There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.
We organized First and Second Volunteer Defense Gunners of Free Luna-two regiments so that First could snub lowly Second and Second could be jealous of First.
At present, indeed, they were well supplied both with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in the neighbourhood; it
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
The army is under orders to defend every place.
I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
You've been away a long time. Were you lost?
I was wounded, not lost.
I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
Your traveling companion, the soldier, is well trained. The two of you were planning something, weren't you?"
"Planning what? An evil scheme to steal all the Big Macs left in the McDonalds along 1-99?
As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal
The battlefield is cold ... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.
Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
Who hath not served can not command.
Headquarters in the Saddle.
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
The soldier is the army.
Outnumbered! Ya'll are always the hell outnumbered! - Marek, Gunship
I don't know that it is possible to construct anything more atrociously hideous or uninteresting than a Base Camp. It consists, in military parlance, of nothing more than: -
Fields, grassless 1
Tents, bell 500
I will not move my army until I am absolutely ready.
Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!
Oh soldier, how did we come to such a place?
We're in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we're in the vanguard of waiting.
...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field
A soldier would snake his way painfully through rocks and rubble to set up a light machine gun, raise his head cautiously to aim, and find a dozen natives clustered solemnly around him. Street
Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
It's Officer, actually. Where are you
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
I'm waiting for you, soldier.
It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?
Since then, I have served
I found a big crate with the letters MAP on the side. According to the manifest, it stands for 'Mobile Assault Package.' Apparently navy-speak for a big box of guns,
invasion by night
We're on a mission from Glod.
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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
Stolen from someone. Like they stole everything. Occupied. I was occupied. I disappeared.
My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!