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Best Military Quote

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"When I joined the military it was illegal

to be homosexual, then it became optional.

I'm getting out before Obama makes it mandatory."

-GySgt Harry Berres, USMC
 
"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
- from a post-war debriefing of a German General
 
"When I joined the military it was illegal

to be homosexual, then it became optional.

I'm getting out before Obama makes it mandatory."

-GySgt Harry Berres, USMC

"In Vietnam they gave me a medal for killing 2 men.
And a discharge for loving one"
 
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"When I joined the military it was illegal

to be homosexual, then it became optional.

I'm getting out before Obama makes it mandatory."

-GySgt Harry Berres, USMC

Oh and another thing...

You wanna show me how Obama is planning to make everyone in the military touch each other in the shower if he repeals DADT?
 
"When I joined the military it was illegal

to be homosexual, then it became optional.

I'm getting out before Obama makes it mandatory."

-GySgt Harry Berres, USMC

"Stupid people in the military are a problem, but it's not that hard to overcome it. It's when those stupid people manage to rise in rank that it becomes a serious problem."

-Paraphrase of SCPO Jackson, comments made to me and a few others.

No idea why his comments popped into mind when I read the quote you posted...
 
It should be pointed out that some of the fiercest warriors of the ancient world were the Spartans, and many (if not most) of those soldiers were homosexual or bi-sexual.

Just sayin' is all...
 
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
- Douglas MacArthur
 
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, USMC
 
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog"
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
General Smedley D. Butler USMC
 
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General Smedley D. Butler USMC
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
-General Smedley Butler USMC
 
General Smedley D. Butler USMC

yeah; that's a sad case. :shrug: what happens when a man spends 20 odd years living a self-contradiction; eventually you snap.
 
To the German Commander, NUTS!, The American Commander
General Anthony McAuliffe
in reply to this german request for surrender:

no doubt, McAuliffe had some huge ones
 
General Smedley D. Butler USMC


I believe if we had, and would, keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. That they design and want. That they will fight and work for...and not the American style, which they don't want. Not one crammed down their throats by Americans. --the late General David M. Schoop, USMC, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism during World War II, and Commandant of the United States Marine Corp, 1960-63.


Persevere.
Guy
 
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." Dwight Eisenhower






"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living." Omar Bradley
 
"War is Hell."
- William Tecumseh Sherman
 
"When I joined the military it was illegal

to be homosexual, then it became optional.

I'm getting out before Obama makes it mandatory."

-GySgt Harry Berres, USMC

Sep 20, 2011 10:02 AM by CBS News

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the law that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military, is now a thing of the past.

Repeal of the 1993 law took effect at midnight.
 
Best Military quote:

"Hey kids, who wants to put things in my pouch?" Captain Kangaroo (I think he was in Army)
 
"Do that to me one more time" Captain Daryl Dragon (Navy, I believe)
 
"SHAZAM!" - Captain Marvel (Justice Society of America)
 
"The Object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his"- Patton
 
Wellington had a similar opinion of his men too.


"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me!"
 
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