Quotes September 13, 2024

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can’t be won without.
Ernie Pyle
 
 
 
 
An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
Sebastian Junger
 
 
 
 
I’m convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
Bill Mauldin
 
 
 
 
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War’s harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.
Jim Webb
 
 
 
 
I’m proud to have served there for 12 months with Alpha Company of the 39th Infantry.
Wes Studi