Tag: Military

Quotes April 13, 2018

“I’d rather take lessons from the past than learn lessons the hard way.”
“It’s better to use something like ground sensors now, rather than something happening and wishing we would have employed measures like this beforehand.
Marine Corps Sgt. John Verhage III
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Music April 06, 2018

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes April 06, 2018

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
Heraclitus
 
 
 
 
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country
George S. Patton Jr.
Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.
 
 
 
 
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Walter Dean Myers
 
 
 
 

Military April 05, 2018

By MATT HICKMAN Frontiersman.com: Vietnam Veterans honored in Wasilla for fifth straight year
 
 
 
 

By Katie Lange Defense Media Activity: Yellow Ribbon Program Covers College Costs that GI Bill Doesn’t
 
 
 
 
Press Operations Release No: NR-098-18: Department of Defense Participates in the USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo
 
 
 
 
By Navy Lt. Cmdr. Sandra Arnold Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade: Amphibious Training Event Begins Off Djibouti’s Coast
 
 
 
 
By Army Spc. Jonathan Wallace 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division: Fort Stewart Soldiers Put Newly Acquired Tanks Through Paces
 
 
 
 
Anniversary Flight Marine Corps KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft conduct a ceremonial formation flight in San Diego, March 30, 2018, to mark the 75th anniversary of Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Clare J. McIntire
 
 
 
 
By Lisa Ferdinando DoD News, Defense Media Activity: DoD, DHS to Work With Governors to Deploy Guardsmen to Southern Border

Military March 31, 2018

By Army Sgt. 1st Class Debra Richardson 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment: Combat Support Hospital Flexes Mobility, Ingenuity
 
 
 
 
By Marine Corps Sgt. David Staten DoD News, Defense Media Activity: Deputy Secretary Explains Priorities in Evolving the Future Force
 
 
 
 
By Air Force Airman 1st Class Tara Stetler 375th Air Mobility Wing: Face of Defense: Air Force Opportunities Help Airman Pursue Music Dream
 
 
 
 
Week in Photos: March 24-30
 
 
 
 
PA Pundits – International: Patriot Humor – Don’t Worry

Quotes March 30, 2018

“Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.”

Mattis, a student of counterinsurgency tactics and strategy, sent this advice to his Marine unit only a few hours before they helped kick off the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “While we will move swiftly and aggressively against those who resist, we will treat all others with decency, demonstrating chivalry and soldierly compassion for people who have endured a lifetime under Saddam’s oppression,” he wrote.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis
“Mattisisms”
 
 
 
 

When you are commanding, leading [soldiers] under conditions where physical exhaustion and privations must be ignored, where the lives of [soldiers] may be sacrificed, then, the efficiency of your leadership will depend only to a minor degree on your tactical ability. It will primarily be determined by your character, your reputation, not much for courage—which will be accepted as a matter of course—but by the previous reputation you have established for fairness, for that high-minded patriotic purpose, that quality of unswerving determination to carry through any military task assigned to you.
General George C. Marshall, Speaking to officer candidates in September 1941
 
 
 
 

“Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites.
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed
to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.”
Chairman Colin Powell

Quotes March 23, 2018

His army incomparably holds, after long years, the abiding love of its surviving veterans. Who marched with it, fought with it, took part in its victories and defeats, shared its sufferings and joys; shall [never] be deaf when its deeds are sung, [nor] mute when rung out its plaudits!
Brig. Gen. G Moxley Sorrell, “Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer”, 1905 Military Quote
 
 
 
 
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“I’m the 82nd Airborne and this is as far as the bastards are going.”
Pvt. 1st Class Martin, U.S. Army
 
 
 
 
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas Macarthur
 
 
 
 
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.
John Keegan
 
 
 
 
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
Norman Schwarzkopf
 
 
 
 
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
George Washington

Military March 10, 2018

US DoD: Week in Photos: March 3-9
 
 
 
 

By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity:Officials Discuss DoD’s Audit, Business Operations on Capitol Hill
 
 
 
 
By Press Operations: Secretary Mattis Hosts Enhanced Honor Cordon Welcoming Minister of Defence Jüri Luik of Estonia to the Pentagon
 
 
 
 
Legion of Merit Presentation
 
 
 
 
By Submarine Force Pacific: Navy’s Arctic Ice Exercise Features Multinational Participation
ICE CAMP SKATE, Arctic Circle, March 8, 2018 —

Submarine Force Pacific officially kicked off Ice Exercise 2018 in the Arctic Ocean with the construction of temporary Ice Camp Skate off the northern Alaskan coast and the arrival of two U.S. Navy fast-attack submarines and one British Royal Navy submarine, March 7.
 
 
 
 
By Army Staff Sgt. Scott J. Evans 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment: Face of Defense: Army Logistics Officer Improves Troops’ Quality of Life
 
 
 
 
By Air Force Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook 455th Air Expeditionary Wing: Airmen, Soldiers Partner to Conduct Afghanistan Rescue Missions

Quotes March 09, 2018

Rules:

US Marine Corps Rules:

1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
2. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.
3. Have a plan.
4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won’t work.
5. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
6. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start
with a “4.” (That just shows good sense.)
7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life
is expensive.
8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (lateral &
diagonal preferred.)
9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or
tactics. They will only remember who lived.
13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention
to shoot.
 
 
 
 

US Navy Rules:

1. Go to Sea.
2. Drink Coffee.
3. Deploy the Marines
 
 
 
 

Sniper Rule:

1. One shot, one kill.

Quotes March 02, 2018

The 2 most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity and I don’t know which is the more.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Q. How do you know your date with the fighter pilot is half over?
A. He says “but enough about me – wanna hear about my plane?”
 
 
 
 
Q: How do you know if there is a fighter pilot at your party?
A: He’ll tell you.
 
 
 
Q: What’s the difference between a fighter pilot and a jet engine?
A: A jet engine stops whining when the plane shuts down.
 
 
 
 
Q: What’s the difference between God and fighter pilots?
A: God doesn’t think he’s a fighter pilot.
 
 
 
Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death … I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing!
(Sign over the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base
Kadena, Japan).
 
 
 
 
There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.
(Sign over squadron OPS desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970).
 
 
 
 
The Altitude above you, the runway behind you, and the fuel not in the plane are totally worthless!!!

A pilot’s job is very simple…. there are 3 lights on an aircraft, red on left wing tip, green on right wing tip, white on the tail….. Your job, as a pilot is to keep the plane between these 3 lights!!!!
(Sonny Kellum, Flight Instructor)
 
 
 
 
Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of under-standing or doing anything about it.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII: When a prang (crash) seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slow and gently as possible.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
If you’re faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
(Bob Hoover – renowned aerobatic and test pilot)