#troops

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#friends #give #got #mean #more

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#away #change #considerable #fighting #friends

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#certain #contrary #dragged #handful #inured

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#commanders #constitution #earnestly #fidelity #hungarian

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

#any #bound #children #duty #empowered

The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#american #american people #armed #armed forces #civilians

I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#bring #home #i #i believe #our

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#attacking #capability #cost #dead #destruction

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy. ↗

— John Spratt

#could #deploy #duty #guard #hardly