#combat

Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it. ↗

— Bruce H. Norton

#foce-recon #marines #military-history #vietnam #vietnam-war

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory. ↗

— James D. Hornfischer

#combat #war #wwii-history #experience

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword. ↗

— Derek Landy

#combat #duel #dueling #humor #humorous

It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war. ↗

— Bruce H. Norton

#war #death

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly. ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#combat #psychology #change

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#back #been #challenge #civilian #combat

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#class #combatants #fascists #freedom #know

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#clear #climate #climate change #combat #effort

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#combat #evidence #history #improve #jobs

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#be true #clearly #combat #every #experience