#marine

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#football #football coach #football team #great #hard

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#anything #confess #crew #doing #i

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#army #continued #corps #end #growth

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist. ↗

— January Jones

#i #marine #meteorologist #wanted

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

I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ? ↗

— Joe Dunthorne

#joe-dunthorne #submarine #introspection

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool! ↗

— Catherine Bell

#because #become #character #cool #few

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #both #central #coasts #containing

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy. ↗

— Robert McFarlane

#any #concerned #deeply #emotionally #especially

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. ↗

— George William Norris

#american #american lives #asking #certain #congress