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Favorite Military Quotes

old barnacle

New in Town
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at sea
Old Barnacle
Vietnam, battle of Hue
Reporter : "How many times have you been injured ?"
Marine : "You mean today ?"

nice :eusa_clap
BTW wonder why the Marine didn't correct the reporter for confusing wounded and injured....
John

maybe he said "wounded", and I just messed up the translation.
But I remember to have been stunned a whole minute myself, when I read that long time ago.
 
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Orange County, CA
"There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued."

"I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defense of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter."

Sam Manekshaw (1914-2008)
Field Marshal, Indian Army

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Two Types

I'll Lock Up
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5,456
Location
London, UK
I rather like this one:

Major Tony Hibbert MC arriving in the German city of Kiel in the final days of WW2. He arrived in a city that was home to around 60,000 German soldiers but he was in command of just 500 men. He had broken the ceasefire to advance 60 miles in German held territory to reach the city so things were somewhat tense. Hibbert was unarmed since he had a broken leg and couldn't use both a gun and a walking stick.
Confronted by a German Navy captain with a machine-pistol, Hibbert told him:

"Help me up these steps and let's get this bloody war finished."

(postscript: two days later, when the main British advance arrived, Major Hibbert was put under arrest by the commander of 8 Corps for breaching the ceasefire)
 

the hairy bloke

Familiar Face
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83
Location
U K
I'm not sure this counts, as it may well be totally made up. I've just finished reading "The Wolf Sea" by Robert Low, about a bunch of Vikings:

"You see many strange things in battle.

But you never see a cat on the battlefield."
 

Big J

Call Me a Cab
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Location
Japan
'How do you take your tea?'
'NATO standard' (milk and two sugars).

You Brits and your tea! Never fails to make me smile.
 

DavidJones

One of the Regulars
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177
Location
Ohio
In your planning for any campaign remember the virtue of the surplus, so you will not feel the pain of any deficiency.
King Frederick II of Prussia
 

Shangas

I'll Lock Up
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6,116
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

- Latin Saying.

"If you desire peace, prepare for war".

--

"Keep Buggering On!"

- Sir Winston Churchill.

--

"Sir, I do not drink, and I do not smoke. And am 100% fit!"
"Sir! I both drink, and smoke, and I'm 200% fit!"


Montgomery and Churchill.

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"Every fool thinks he knows what war is...those are the people who've never been in one"

- Flags of Our Fathers.
 

Smithy

I'll Lock Up
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5,139
Location
Norway
Heard over MiG Alley during the Korean War in 1952, during a large dogfight between USAF F-86 Sabres and communist MiG-15s:

-"Lead, they're shooting at us!"
-"That's OK, they're allowed to do that."
 

DavidJones

One of the Regulars
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177
Location
Ohio
You need three things to start a war. Money, money, and more money.

Raimondo Graf Montecúccoli, 21 February 1609 – 16 October 1680
 

DavidJones

One of the Regulars
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177
Location
Ohio
"Heads up, gentlemen, these are bullets, not turds".

Colonel Louis Lepic of the Grenadiers à Cheval as they are forming for a charge under intense fire at the battle of Eylau in 1807
 

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