#navy

I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ↗

— Eric Greitens

#navy-seals #pericles #education

Friendship is the best kind of ship. ↗

— Jennifer Lane

#na #navy #ship #toast #friendship

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#navy #imagination

Semper fuckin' fi ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#marine #navy #semper-fi #uniform #inspirational

See it, learn it, do it ALL. ↗

— Jamie McCall

#adventure #adventurer #author #high-life #law-of-attraction

There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself ↗

— Mark Owen

#die #fight #honor #navy #no-easy-day

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability. ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#army #country #marines #military #navy

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#army #country #marines #military #navy

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bin #blood #bullet #ceiling #could

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#because #believe #changed #day #deal