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I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.
I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."
Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.)
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.
Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers
A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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.
This is not the time for lying down at ease, it is the season of service and warfare.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
we arrived at the army's main encampment all
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.
A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev
The true soldier fights
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.
DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.
Army life don't agree with me.
The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.
The Army can be family. The Army can be religion.
I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.
Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.
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
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.
Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep.
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
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.
We are your army.Army-- Jodi Meadows
Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.
Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
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
To the army of common soldiers, who do the actual fighting, and risk mutilation and death, there is no reward except the consciousness of duty bravely performed.
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.
Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?
Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.
You've no idea, the whole Army's obsessed with playing at soldiers ...
Without supplies no army is brave.
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.
The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
Whenever armed forces ... are used, the idea of combat must be present ... The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.
The soldier looked around the dusty airfield to see troops and supplies being dropped off and flown away with an equal lack of ceremony. Unfortunately, his platoon was just arriving, and the plane that brought them was just departing. A hot wind
For over 220 years, Marines have served at the end of America's operational reach - on freedom's far frontiers. These Marines are the backbone of the ARG/MEU (SOC) team, our regional commanders' force of choice for both forward presence and crisis response.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Military police is very timely for our army.
When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.
The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
The Army is the Indian's best friend.
How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.
A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.
They seemed more like machines than humans, and, let's face it, they are a civilian's army. An army whose soldiers dressed in costumes and walked and talked like robots, with guns strapped to their waist belts, always looking for an enemy.
There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
Every battalion has its marching songs.
Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.
There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
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.
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.
To apply norm, soldiers needed.
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
Marines - you beat them down and they come back for more.
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
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.
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry,
A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
On the face of the black earth, but I say
It's what one loves.
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.
I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
So the drill sergeant says, 'All you idiots fall out!' All the soldiers took off and one stayed. So the drill sergeant walks over to the soldier and raises an eyebrow and the soldier says, 'Sure was a lot of 'em!
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
The soldiers stomp stomp stomp through the rain, crushing leaves and fallen snow under their feet. Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities.
The Army uses the same principle, but they call them battle buddies.
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
In battle, refusal or hesitation to follow orders can spell disaster. But at the same time, the rigid hierarchy and absolute power of officers slows down execution and stifles rapid adaptation by the soldiers closest to the fight.
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of America's cherished institutions and one of the world's most feared and respected fighting forces
You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.
. . and Phillips, go to Staff Sergeant Pole, have him assign you to platoons." "Platoons, Gunnery Sergeant?" "Got extra food stored in your ears, Phillips?
Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.