Chains of Command Quotes

“We have more computing power in the drop ships’ tactical integrated neural network computers than existed on the entire planet fifty years ago, and somehow mission planning goes better when you’re outside in the fresh air and drawing diagrams and maps into the dirt with a pointy stick. “Two”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“If one of you sons of bitches gets killed for lack of shooting back because you ran out of ammo, I will personally violate your carcass. Understood?” “Yes, Master Sergeant,” the enlisted grunts shout back. I grin behind the shield of my visor. Nobody does motivational premission pep talks better than Sergeant Fallon. I”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“We are so incredibly skilled at adapting to even the most hostile of environments, and so often we use those skills to be more efficient at killing each other.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“We are not garrison troops. We are in the business of killing people and breaking their shit.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“If one of you sons of bitches gets killed for lack of shooting back because you ran out of ammo, I will personally violate your carcass. Understood?” “Yes,”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“When she tells you to jump, I highly suggest you are in the air before you even ask for an altitude parameter.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“Of all the decadences this upper-middle-class eatery has to offer, the coffee is among the cheapest, but my favorite by far. It tastes like liquid civilization.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“I love our unhurried lovemaking, enjoying the act without having to worry about unwelcome visitors knocking on the hatch or overhead announcements in the hallway outside interrupting us.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“Sometimes, the smartest possible thing to do is to shut up and do as you’re told.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“I love the sense that we are home for each other—that it’s not a fixed place on Earth or anyplace else you can find on a map, but where we both happen to be together.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“Strangest name for a ship I’ve ever heard of,” Sergeant Fallon comments dryly. “Welcome aboard the Classified. Lead ship of her class. Sister units are the None of Your Business and the Piss Off.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“under a steel-gray sky,”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“Then I walk over to my men to let them in on all the ways I will risk their lives again today.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“Selling each other out for little favors, for tiny scraps from the tables of our masters. Is that all we’ve ever done? Is that all we’ll ever do, even with the world going to shit and our exterminators at the door?”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“furtive thumbs-up. Major Masoud is already at the front of the”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“But whatever else they are, and whatever thoughts swirl around in those heads right now, they volunteered to be here, to join the thin green line that stands between us and extermination. “Here’s”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“The universal motivator,” she says. “That has always been what makes a squad function under fire. Not honor or medals or promotions. As long as they make us pick up rifles and go to war together, it’ll always be about the grunt next to you.” I”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“I don’t feel guilty for making it,” I reply. “But a lot of people died so I could make it back to Earth. Come back to you. Do something worthwhile. I don’t want to feel like I’m not holding up my end of the deal.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“But right now, most of all I love knowing that she’ll be next to me when I fall asleep, and she’ll be there still when I wake up in the morning.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“Of all the decadences this upper-middle-class eatery has to offer, the coffee is among the cheapest, but my favorite by far. It tastes like liquid civilization. “How”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command

“no longer invincible in everyone’s heads, and that’s making all the difference.”
― Marko Kloos, Chains of Command