Favorite Military Quotes

[Phantomfixer]

you don't know my wife!!!

 

[old barnacle]

Old Barnacle
Vietnam, battle of Hue
Reporter : "How many times have you been injured ?"
Marine : "You mean today ?"

nice :eusa_clap
BTW wonder why the Marine didn't correct the reporter for confusing wounded and injured....
John

maybe he said "wounded", and I just messed up the translation.
But I remember to have been stunned a whole minute myself, when I read that long time ago.

 

[John Kirowan]

On Ne Passe Pas!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued."

"I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defense of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter."

Sam Manekshaw (1914-2008)
Field Marshal, Indian Army

 

[31 Model A]

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war"

"We have gone so long with so little, that we can do anything with nothing"

 

[nick123]

"Alert is alive".

 

[Spitfire]

And my all-time favorite - see below:
(Stated by a RAF pilot - shot down over Kent during Battle of Britain)

 

[Two Types]

I rather like this one:

Major Tony Hibbert MC arriving in the German city of Kiel in the final days of WW2. He arrived in a city that was home to around 60,000 German soldiers but he was in command of just 500 men. He had broken the ceasefire to advance 60 miles in German held territory to reach the city so things were somewhat tense. Hibbert was unarmed since he had a broken leg and couldn't use both a gun and a walking stick.
Confronted by a German Navy captain with a machine-pistol, Hibbert told him:

"Help me up these steps and let's get this bloody war finished."

(postscript: two days later, when the main British advance arrived, Major Hibbert was put under arrest by the commander of 8 Corps for breaching the ceasefire)

 

[the hairy bloke]

I'm not sure this counts, as it may well be totally made up. I've just finished reading "The Wolf Sea" by Robert Low, about a bunch of Vikings:

"You see many strange things in battle.

But you never see a cat on the battlefield."

 

[Big J]

'How do you take your tea?'
'NATO standard' (milk and two sugars).

You Brits and your tea! Never fails to make me smile.

 

[splintercellsz]

“They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.”

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dwight_d_eisenhower.html#20oJeiIRlP7LXElP.99

 

[DavidJones]

In your planning for any campaign remember the virtue of the surplus, so you will not feel the pain of any deficiency.
King Frederick II of Prussia

 

[Otter]

No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy : Helmuth von Moltke.

And my apocryphal favourite : Where did all those Damn Indians come from?
The purportedly last words of George Armstrong Custer.

 

[Shangas]

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

- Latin Saying.

"If you desire peace, prepare for war".

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"Keep Buggering On!"

- Sir Winston Churchill.

--

"Sir, I do not drink, and I do not smoke. And am 100% fit!"
"Sir! I both drink, and smoke, and I'm 200% fit!"

Montgomery and Churchill.

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"Every fool thinks he knows what war is...those are the people who've never been in one"

- Flags of Our Fathers.

 

[Smithy]

Heard over MiG Alley during the Korean War in 1952, during a large dogfight between USAF F-86 Sabres and communist MiG-15s:

-"Lead, they're shooting at us!"
-"That's OK, they're allowed to do that."

 

[Stearmen]

Donald Francis Mason, “Sighted sub sank same”.

 

[DavidJones]

You need three things to start a war. Money, money, and more money.

Raimondo Graf Montecúccoli, 21 February 1609 – 16 October 1680

 

[DavidJones]

"Heads up, gentlemen, these are bullets, not turds".

Colonel Louis Lepic of the Grenadiers à Cheval as they are forming for a charge under intense fire at the battle of Eylau in 1807

 

[Stearmen]

“It's the Gatlings, men, our Gatlings!" Teddy Roosevelt.