#military

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this. ↗

— Mark Bowden

#life

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah! ↗

— Evan Wright

#military #love

When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today. ↗

— Patrick O'Donnell

#joyce-shaughnessy-research #wwii #men

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009 ↗

— Richard Holmes

#military #military-service #men

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever. ↗

— Orlando Figes

#men

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army. ↗

— Ezra Klein

#insurance #military #money #politics #money

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#soldiers #military

I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight. ↗

— Marcus Luttrell

#military

Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons. Munitions Commander? Why me? I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part. -Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn ↗

— Howard Tayler

#humour #military #promotion #sci-fi #weapons

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#audible #background #codes #communications #environment