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I joined the army because I was eighteen and bored with the tenth grade.  --Robert Hawkins

2

I think we should invade France:  Operation Restore Politeness.  --Darin Kinsey

3

In WWII the Japanese were evil through and through; whereas the Germans were just evil on the inside.  --Jeff Roemhildt

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BAD POKER HAND.  Adam Olson, when asked by his Senior Enlisted Advisor, "Why did you join the Air Force?"

 

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It's okay to make mistakes. That's why pencils have erasers.  Except in the military.  The military's like one of them pencils you get at the miniature golf course.   --DeWayne Nobles

 

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You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you.  --Leon Trotsky

 

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Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?  --George Wallace

 

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Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.  --Paul Rodriguez

 

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People question why Switzerland always remains neutral in wars. I think it's because the Swiss realize those Army Knives would be pretty useless against heavy artillery.  ‑‑Paul Paternoster

 

10

What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.

 

11

We are not retreating --we are advancing in another direction.
--General Douglas MacArthur

 

12

When you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.

 

13

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it.  That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. -- In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance 44. 

 

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How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven. --Spike Milligan

 

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If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.  --Moshe Dayan - Israeli General

 

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About those who harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America: I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

 

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War does not determine who is right...war determines who is left. -Harry Midalia

 

18

Elevate them guns a little lower.  --Andrew Jackson, order given while watching the affect of US artillery upon British lines at the Battle of New Orleans

 

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If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours Respectfully, A. Lincoln.  --Abraham Lincoln, letter to General George B. McClellan during the Civil War

 

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It's not the bullet with your name on it you have to worry about. It's the twenty-thousand-odd other bullets labeled "Occupant."  --Murphy's laws of combat

 

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