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Don’t buy a farm. You know your job; do it. Just do it. Don’t try to win a medal.”
When a female pilot handles a ship there is nothing comfortable about it;
An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone;
The outer shell burned away and sloughed off—unevenly,
become a sitting duck (do ducks really sit?—if so, why?)
Things like that make you pause to wonder why you ever took up soldiering—only
military service is for ants.
few crackers and a couple of prunes will do a lot to quiet your stomach’s sounding alert.
moccasins on my feet—the rabbits having no further use for their skins.
Value’ has no meaning other than in relation to living beings.
I got to feeling gay
from Georgia (the one in the western hemisphere, not the other one)
how can you talk about a drop to a man who has never made one?
however the trouble with “lessons from history” is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.
the human race is too individualistic, too self-centered, to worry that much about future generations.
Marriage is a young man’s disaster and an old man’s comfort.”
“Son, do you know about civilians?” “Well . . . we don’t talk the same language. I know that.”
“Career Sergeant Juan Rico,
Either we spread and wipe out the Bugs, or they spread and wipe us out—because
We would be “temporary third lieutenants”—a rank as necessary as feet on a fish,
real officers, ones who commanded fighting men, were given special insignia to distinguish them from the swarms of swivel-chair hussars.
discovered that breaking a habit is not easy.
we don’t make a man a PFC until after he has been in combat—not
(It is an unwritten law of the Navy that facilities must always be locked when they are most needed.
Must we wipe out every Bug in the Galaxy?
We did not know; we understood them as little as we understand termites.
Sheol,
Holocaust
The Sky Marshal plays his chess without consulting the pieces.
guess every country has its own version of history.”
