Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.

This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you’ve got.

It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but...

It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My fists hit the floor. My head hit the floor. My heart broke, hardened,...

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

I have this thought, it’s horrible, and it makes me sick, but it’s true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they’re going to name them for men and...

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword … unless he’s a general.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

It’s not about composition. It’s the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I’ve got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives...

I don’t care if some monkey is rippin’ your eyeballs out with rusty nails! YOU STARE UP FRONT AT ATTENTION! RIGHT THERE! IS THAT CLEAR!

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time...

God, I swear I’ve never seen a more nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. They were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed kids of twenty-one. They had gone to college and were engaged...

Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people,...

McChrystal’s defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire...

I don’t have much patience for people who enjoy limitless liberty while decrying those who get their hands dirty to make sure it exists for them.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command,” said Citizen.”Oh my,” said Rigg. “They’re handing out the death penalty for that these days?

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

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

There’s nothing gay about living life straight

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war—peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm,...

I am fully supportive of ‘open service’ and committed to LGBT military families.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards...

War is too important to be left to the generals

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the...

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass …

Mana kapal selam, mana kapal penjelajah kita?

More proof that Lynn is still meant to continue with the government programme occurred during the winter of 2000, when she was sitting at a cafeteria table at the area college. It was later in...

I’m sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotel—but he was a complete stranger to me and the truth is that being vigilant isn’t a...

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.

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.

Here at great expense,’ [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, ‘the government has assembled the world’s largest collection of crackpots.

There are two things a combat deployment offers which all of us strongly desire. The first, being purpose. Every morning we woke up and knew why we were there. It is immediate and unavoidable. Although,...

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don’t need so many tanks.

Aw, you goddammed bastards! They’re shootin’ him while he’s down! Son of a bitch!”The ship stopped moving, and Alex said in a quiet voice, “Suck on this, asshole.”The ship vibrated for half a second, then...

Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse issues, we witness a casualty of war.

The bad thing caught you.I’ve never retreated in my life. I’ve never backed away from a fight and I’ve never cowered in fear. Ever. That’s not who I am. But I’ve been in combat long...

Kevyn, I’m promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.Munitions Commander? Why me?I don’t know. Call it “suspicion of extreme competence” on my part.-Captain Tagon...

Voters—here’s the real challenge: we don’t need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through...

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

Tom’s Navy SEAL team nicknamed him ‘Tailspin’, especially after sustaining his knee injury, but Joe likes to call him his ‘Lucky Charm’ — saved his tail too many times to count.

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for...