Tag: Military

Quotes December 01, 2017

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
 
 
 
 
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman
 
 
 
 
The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.
William C. Westmoreland
 
 
 
 
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly
David Hackworth
 
 
 
 
I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
The Duke of Wellington

Music December 01, 2017

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes November 24, 2017

Battle of Britain Anniversary – Spitfire Ace with 26 kills

 
 
 
 

Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL (/ˈbɑːdər/; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.[1][2]

Bader joined the RAF in 1928, and was commissioned in 1930. In December 1931, while attempting some aerobatics, he crashed and lost both his legs. Having been on the brink of death, he recovered, retook flight training, passed his check flights and then requested reactivation as a pilot. Although there were no regulations applicable to his situation, he was retired against his will on medical grounds.[3] After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, however, Douglas Bader returned to the RAF and was accepted as a pilot. He scored his first victories over Dunkirk during the Battle of France in 1940. He then took part in the Battle of Britain and became a friend and supporter of Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and his “Big Wing” experiments.

In August 1941, Bader bailed out over German-occupied France and was captured. Soon afterward, he met and was befriended by Adolf Galland, a prominent German fighter ace.[4] Despite his disability, Bader made a number of escape attempts and was eventually sent to the prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle. He remained there until April 1945 when the camp was liberated by the First United States Army.

Bader left the RAF permanently in February 1946 and resumed his career in the oil industry. During the 1950s, a book and a film, Reach for the Sky, chronicled his life and RAF career to the end of the Second World War. Bader campaigned for the disabled and in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 1976 was appointed a Knight Bachelor “for services to disabled people”[5] and continued to fly until ill health forced him to stop in 1979. Three years later, at the age of 72, Bader died on 5 September 1982, after a heart attack.

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Quotes November 17, 2017


It have been one of the richest experiences of my life…feeling that I was being really useful to the boys on the other side.
Unidentified actress about working in a war factory. From an excerpt in Adriane Ruggiero, American Voices from World War I (2003), p. 79–80, citing Norma B. Kastl, “Wartime, the Place and the Girl”, Independent magazine (unidentified issue).
 
 
 
 
Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?
Daniel Daly, Battle cry at the Battle of Belleau Wood, World War I, June 1918
 
 
 
 
Some of us still recall World War I, which awakened our generation to the fact that history was not a matter of the past, as a thoughtless philosophy of the hundred years’ peace would have us believe. And once started, it did not cease to happen. I will seek to evoke the scenes we have witnessed and take the measure of our frustrations. Great triumphs and grave disappointments have been met with. However, it is not a balance of our experiences, achievements and omissions that stands to question; nor am I scanning the horizon for a mere break. The time has come to take note of a much bigger change.
Karl Polanyi, “For a New West” (1958)
 
 
 
 
The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
A. J. P. Taylor, The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 20
 
 
 
 
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions — but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.
Edmond Taylor, in The Fossil Monarchies.

Images November 17, 2017


 
 
 
 

Deck Direction
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Angus Moss directs flight deck personnel during operations aboard the USS San Diego in the Mediterranean Sea, Nov. 6, 2017.
Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin A. Schoenberger


 
 
 
 

Refueling the Fight
An Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon receives fuel from a 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker during a mission over Syria, Nov. 10, 2017. The squadron, assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Operations Group, supports various operations, including those in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Paul Labbe

Music November 17, 2017

https://youtu.be/6RDgj7T-4y8
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

What Do I Know?: How Many Veterans From How Many Wars?

What Do I Know?: How Many Veterans From How Many Wars?

DOD – Face of Defense: Army Staff Sgt. Michael Stone’s Dedication Pays Off for Recruiting Center Leader

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In 2017, Stone has lived up to his personal creed by pursuing and achieving excellence at the highest levels in U.S. Army Recruiting Command.

Stone, the center leader for the Rio Rancho Recruiting Center, Albuquerque Recruiting Company, New Mexico, finished as runner-up in the USAREC Center Leader of the Year competition. This year he also was the distinguished honor graduate in his senior leader course and was inducted into the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club.

Face of Defense: Dedication Pays Off for Recruiting Center Leader

Music November 10, 2017


 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes November 10, 2017

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short day ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae, In Flanders Fields (1915).