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“Care for your men. Maintain discipline. Always set an example. You take fewer casualties attacking than retreating: “Your job is not to die for your country but to make the other son of a bitch die for his country.” Once engaged, give no quarter. Drill, drill, drill. Stay alert, stay alive.”
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
“politicians only listened to these generals, and these generals only listened to themselves.”
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
“The new battalion commander had used his eyes but not his head: he’d seen overfamiliarity, but had not taken time to think, to realize that Barney K.’s easygoing attitude with his guys came from the platoon’s and its leader’s mutual understanding, respect, and trust. With one order, the CO had destroyed it all, and my friend was heartbroken.”
― About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior
― About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior
“That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,” he says, casually full-naming me to let me know something big is coming. “Nobody waves—but everybody waves back."
I hear his mic drop all the way from Chicago.”
― Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
I hear his mic drop all the way from Chicago.”
― Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
“He’d fly his chopper over the Berlin lakeside beaches, for example, throwing out leaflets that read, “The handsome young man flying this helicopter is Captain Dale Le Clerc. If you would like to meet him in person, ring him at…” with, of course, his phone number and the best time to call. These things would flutter, en masse, onto the tanned bellies of the West Berlin sunbathers, and the results were mind-boggling. Once I went back to his apartment with him, only to find a line of girls waiting patiently at his door, all of them ready to live the day”
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
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