#military

To hold the rank of responsibility, requires you to make decisions that will not only hurt the enemy…but also your own. And there will come a time when the situation will be absolutely so bleak that every eye will turn to you out of fear and desperation. In that moment, you’ll have to become like the steel of your ship…and make the hardest choices of your life. Because if you don’t, there will be no one is else to do it for you. And you will always be alone in this. ↗

— Commander Paladin Martian Fleet - from Beyond Mars Crimson Fleet

#desperation #military #military-philosophy #rank #resposibility

There's nothing gay about living life straight ↗

— Paul B. Tripp

#gay-and-lesbian #memoir #military #reparative-therapy #life

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #military #love

Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it. ↗

— Michel Templet

#pacifism #war #love

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#military #responsibility #security #men

Thank God for men who manage to hold from afar, wipe tears away with tender words and dish out the life force that is hope. She has never felt so alone but out there, across an ocean, and in a foreign land, there is a man who loves her and would lay down his life just so she could feel the light once again. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-love #long-distance-relationships #military-wife #military-wives #life

While I stood on the front porch, watching him climb into his vehicle, I breathed in the humid air. I looked at the cloudless sky, and the blue vastness of it made me think about the endless opportunities that lay ahead for me. Life, I knew, was going to be different now… better. I was going to live for today and for the future. Dear past… thank you for the lessons. Dear future… I am ready. ↗

— Debra Kay

#contemporary-romance #erotic-romance #fiction #military-romance #romance

Leaders must be good listeners. It’s rule number one, and it’s the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships. ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business

Military men are the scourges of the world. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#military #men