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Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Saturday night. Buddy Dow, hired skipper of a big lunker owned by an insurance company in Atlanta, had enlisted two recruits and was despairingly in need of more.
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
Once a gunner, always a gunner
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
Sergeant Stephan Schneider
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
'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.
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 are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry.
Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".
Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.
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.
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
trained army. The
You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.
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.
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.
Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world.
Every time we came back from a rough mission we had to shake up the line-up and twice we had to find a whole new infield. They had a hot club in our squadron once before, the best in the whole division and then they went to Schweinfurt.
My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.
When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.
I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.
This is not the time for lying down at ease, it is the season of service and warfare.
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
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.
Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct.
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.
Southeastern Training Command over possibly
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
The troop whose captain is (apparently) not managing it, but whose girls manage themselves under the Scout laws, is the ideal troop.
The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.
What this world needs is a new kind of army ... A army of LOVE & KINDNESS
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
Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.
The true soldier fights
Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.
Following those tiny footprints all throughout Iraq, Huxsoll's teams
Do we expect a fight, Gunnery Sergeant?" "We always expect a fight, Private Kichar. We're Marines; it's what we do.
I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.
All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
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?
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe ...
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
The universal motivator," she says. "That has always been what makes a squad function under fire. Not honor or medals or promotions. As long as they make us pick up rifles and go to war together, it'll always be about the grunt next to you." I
For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.
soldiers. You learn hard lessons in battle, and you should remember, not forget, them.
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
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.
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.
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.
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.
American Sniper,
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory.
Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.
As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.
After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.
I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
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
Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.
Alone you are a warrior;
together we are an army.
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.
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.
Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
Do you really understand all this army stuff?
It helps not to be too bright, sir.
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!
We have regiments as innumerable as the sands ... And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.
The Gatlings at Santiago.
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.
I don't know very many people."
"Why should you?" he said. "You've got your clique."
That was true, but not the way he was saying it. "We're not a clique," she said.
"Gang, then."
"Gabe."
"Army?
This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")
I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
I am a soldier in my father's army.
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
No army has ever done so much with so little.
Raiden deciding to serve our country and doing it by joining the baddest of the badasses, as everyone knew the Marines were.
Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
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.
With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.
Dirck bolted to his feet and peered out the window. It wasn't a storm. It was worse. An armored transport had stopped outside. Seven commandos, maybe more, stepped from its confines, each in shielded yellow armor, hostile in Zinni's searing light.
An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps
We're on the enemy's doorstep. We're being asked to split up. Isn't that how people get killed in horror movies?
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons
The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.
I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.