Great Military Statements

[Mister Fork]

"I'd rather be down here wishing I was up there than up there wishing I was down here." - Flying Cliche'

[StokesAk]

Loved it, thanks for posting!

Mind if I use one for my sig?

[Guppy35]

where the hell did those indians come from ........
custer

You misquoted him.

"Oh #&$#%@!"

George Armstrong Custer.  Battle of the Little Bighorn

[4deck]

And there was a quote my friends father alwas said. He was a Submariner.


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There are more airplanes in the bottom of the ocean
then there are Subs.

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[DREDIOCK]

"Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move…. To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example"
- General George Patton Jr

"There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"All glory is fleeting."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
- General George Patton Jr

[Nutzoid]

See my sig.

[Masherbrum]

"I would be rather more happy had he given me one more division." - Erwin Rommel

[SCTusk]

“ No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy” - Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson of the Royal Navy, who defeated the French and Spanish fleet at Trafalgar in 1805 and was killed during that engagement.

[bozon]

"Flight is the ability to throw yourself at the ground and miss"

[beau32]

I dont think this is a exact quote, but I remember reading that during Iraqi Freedom, I guess the Iraqi's were bragging about a GPS Jammer that they were using. A reporter asked a general (or someone high ranked) about it, and he told the reporter that they took outthe GPS Jammer with a GPS weapon.

[macleod01]

A good one to remember when we are playing this game

'Next to a battle lost, nothing is so terrible as a battle won' - Field Marshal Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo 1815

[TeeArr]

        "They Couldn't hit an Elephant at this Dista....."

            General John Sedgewick. American Civil War, just before a sharpshooter's bullet struck and killed him in 1864.

[McDeath]

lol lots of Rommel quotes

I just pissed my wife off it was worse

[FLOTSOM]

"Then we will fight in the shade"

the response of a Spartan soldier named Dienekes or Dieneces, who fought at the Battle of Thermopylae, when told that the Persians archers were so numerous that their arrows would block out the sun.

[Scotty55OEFVet]

Cant remember whos aid it, but: "Battle plans are everything before the first round shrieks past your head, and nothing after"