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Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.
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prestidigitator,
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The soldier in the portrait had been a respected and admired officer...
The man he had become was fighting a different battle now. He had his demons, just as she had her ghosts.
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I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].
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Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.
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there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory.
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Hi there. You must be the boss of this operation. I'm Bonnie, formerly known as B785, or as the general liked to fondly call me, that irritating bloody bitch. But you can call me your newest pain in the ass.
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I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears
the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated ...
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heavy demolition unit.
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Soldier= sacrifice on the altar of power
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I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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a soldier in life, not a soldier with a gun, but a soldier for life.
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Character is victory organized.
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I'm a provocateur.
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A rebel without a clue.
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So ... You are well equipped for our service.'
'Which is?'
'We kill people.
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How many of these rescue missions have you conducted anyway?" "More than I can count," sniffed the general. "I see," said Rex. "How many fingers am I holding up?
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The sergeant major
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For me, the essence of being a professional soldier was in being operational. It was the core of a soldier's identity and eligibility.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
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I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy."
"They didn't ask for papers or proof?"
"In this rain?" Olem gestured at the downpour. "You don't understand an enlisted man, sir. Nobody asks for bloody papers in this kind of weather.
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My duty is to obey orders.
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The life that you are about to embrace is not that of a soldier or a commando. It is the way of the assassin.
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In the event of war, I'm a hostage.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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trained army. The
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Cashier." Turnover
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What kind of FBI agent are you?
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Experience had taught her that an enthusiastic officer was a bad thing; an enthusiastic idiot in a captain's uniform was a
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Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal.
"Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed.
"Yes."
"One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off."
Vimes shrugged. "He's got a very pointed look if I don't use the sugar tongs, I know that.
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I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam.
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Service makes men competent.
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Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines)
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equal-opportunity sadist.
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[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face.
'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.
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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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A skilful (commander) strikes a decisive blow, and stops.
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The sergeant is the Army.
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A call to duty, a call for service.
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In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
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Saving lives, one day at a time, just like always
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As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.
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As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.
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YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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I'm not a trained soldier. I'm a spy. But I am a fighter. But lately I've felt more like a soldier than a spy. And if that's what the world is asking for... I'm happy to oblige.
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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Service to others in their time of need is a privilege and an honor.
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A soldier is a killer painted hero.
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
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I'm trained in weapons, demolition, and unarmed combat. I'm a sniper, and I'm the platoon medic. But most of all, I'm an American.
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One service to need heals an ancient wound.
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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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been a loyal agent to this
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That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...
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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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Operation: Hansel & Gretel
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My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.
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Describing a Navy SEAL-
I have no idea what 'unconventional warfare' really means, but i'm pretty sure i was on my way to meet a man who could kill me in 7 different ways with a flip-flop.
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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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Our job is to execute.
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Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.
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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
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was an officer holding out his sword,
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Sergeant Til: Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you today.
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A mature soul filled with scars of life experiences.
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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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The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.
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I was a lieutenant in World War II.
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Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.
'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends.
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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
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For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.
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Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks
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A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
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I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps
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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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A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done.
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The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].
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A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
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A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.
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Should I divulge that she adored soldiers? She was mad about them. Whenever she caught sight of a soldier, she would think, trembling with excitement: is he going to murder me?
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I'm a special agent with the United States Secret Service." "You mean those guys who guard the president?" "That's only one of our duties.
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This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.
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military historian Richard Holmes.
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Operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary;
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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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I assume you're a refugee from the dance inside." "I escaped the enemy, captain," I said. I could see the side of his, and his smile. "Ah," he said. "At long last, a promotion.
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Spy

Though at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-ending battle to see who will survive amid so much bloodshed, I don't need to fight anymore, only wait for people I've never met to decide who I am.
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A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.
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I don't need luck,' said Alex, 'I've got operational authority.' More sensation, laughter and questions. 'Authority to blow stuff up?' one of the freighter crew asked, cheekily. 'This is a warship,' Alex responded, without emotion. 'Authority to blow stuff up is in the definition.' Then,
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Ass in the chair, Soldier.
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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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She sometimes felt less like a primary-care pediatrician and more like a battlefield surgeon, patching up her patients and sending them back to war.
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Marine, eager but tempered by the fight
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Sergeant Hicks seemed to be laid out in squares as though he were constructed out of cinder blocks. There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. He walked as if each step he took was driving a hated enemy toward a precipice.
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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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Strong believer in doing what needs to get done.