Storm Flight Quotes

“Couldn't get that idiot to make a decision if you begged him. Notice how he makes that ehh sound when he has to think? He couldn't lead a pack of Cub Scouts to the rest room.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“Anyone who values freedom and democracy should fight when they are threatened. Tyranny anywhere in the world must be snuffed out. We in the free world should have learned that in the 1930s, when bullies began to rear their heads in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Tyranny feeds upon itself and spreads like a great cancer. If we do not stop it, then who will?”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“Pilots hated to stay on Guard and clutter up the air. The Navy called it Air Force common, the Air Force called it Navy common, and the Marines said they'd use any damn frequency they wanted, Guard included.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“Peace is at hand? Kissinger sounded like Neville Chamberlain returning from his talk with Hitler, saying, “Peace in our time.” Did he mean peace at all costs, regardless of their ally's fate?”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“You know what we call B-52s?" "BUFFs." "Yes Sir. Big ugly fat fuckers.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“Vietnam-vet unemployment is a third higher than the national average, they don't get anything close to the benefits the guys from World War Two received, and those who return to college are heckled and spit on by students and teachers as well.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“Fear can paralyze you, but you must start moving, do something, anything, even if it's wrong. Start moving, then the brain will take over.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“Time comes in every good officer's life when he has to stalk the hallowed halls of the five-sided circus,”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“There's no point in sticking your pecker down a gun barrel to pee on the bullet, just to prove you have balls. That's a one-time deal and they don't give medals to peckerless pilots.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“The Phantom was the heaviest fighter around.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“About all the Navy would admit to adopting from the Air Force was how to ground attack.”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight

“I would think if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists." -Jane Fonda speech at Michigan State University to raise money for the Black Panthers, Detroit Free Press, 22 November 1969   "My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American prisoners." -Jane Fonda, "Who is Being Brainwashed?" An Indochina Peace Campaign Report Santa Monica: Indochina Peace Campaign 1973   "We have no reason to believe that U.S Air Force officers tell the truth. They are professional killers." -Jane Fonda, Washington Star, April 19, 1973”
― Mark Berent, Storm Flight