RED Friday
“On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind .”
Dan Lipinski
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost their confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either is a failure of leadership.”
Colin Powell
“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers who have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.”
Allen Boyd
“Ten soldiers lead wisely will beat a hundred without a head.”
Euripides
“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in a time of peace or ensure it of victory in time of war”
Calvin Coolidge
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine
“It is hard to lead a calvary charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai E Stephenson
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Dwight D Eisenhower