What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country." -- Willie "Drafted

Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.

She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

Veil wouldn’t make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.

With books, you can have as many boyfriends as you want, and no one gets upset, jealous or calls you out for cheating. It’s a win-win.

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.But you can't buy fighting spirit.