Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

David H. Hackworth

Tags: military military-history mill



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Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

Mark Bowden

Tags: military



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Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

Mark Bowden

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The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.

Glenn Dean

Tags: military afghanistan



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Troops are everywhere in their modern, digital camouflage, designed to blend in anywhere at any time. Yet at night we wear bright yellow reflective belts.

Glenn Dean

Tags: military afghanistan



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I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

Michelle Templet

Tags: war military pacifism



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When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

Michelle Templet

Tags: war military pacifism



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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Alan Bradley

Tags: war death military



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We had it drilled into us time and time again: 'If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.'...If someone fell down on me I swear I would have bitten him on the ass and would keep on biting until he got off onhis own.

C.S. Crawford

Tags: military marines korean-war four-deuces



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The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

Michael Hastings

Tags: politics war military afghanistan us government-spending insurgent ied insurgency



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