Ex Military Quotes

That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.

If you find yourself wondering if you can go on, remember how much you’ve accomplished. Then raise your head high and be proud. YOU GOT THIS!

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.

When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.

War is too important to be left to the generals

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

War is the most profitable business on earth

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

Soldiers are not trained for retire

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Aim towards enemy." - instructions on U.S. rocket launcher

Maxim 11: Everything is air-droppable at least once.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.-Captain Tagon

Maxim 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff.""Dustoff? You're going to run away from three guys?""No, I'm going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police.

Technically, you don't pay me.And technically, most of what I do is "think."I...rrr. ummm.And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.-Ennesby & Captain Tagon

Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.

Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat.

Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around.

The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

The answer is always "No" until you ask. - Ref James 4:2

Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.

Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!

If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...

For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.

A wounded animal yet bears teeth

There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world.

I've never been part of an formation where the leader succeeded on their own merits apart from their Soldier's.

To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life.

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There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared.