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JoeSoft AKA EagleII over at Eagles Up compiled a pretty awesome video of some memorable quotes from some of our greater military leaders, and a few boots on the ground as well, paired up with pictures from the front.
Go check it out. And crank yer speakers. The soundtrack is from a heavy metal band called Man O War. Their name speaks for itself.
And while yer at it, check out the PDF that inspired Joe, “These Are My Credentials”. It has the 50 some odd quotes and is well worth the reading. (h/t to Rurik for the link.)
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Longer ago than I’d care to admit, back in basic training, the DIs used to to bark at us “What is the spirit of the bayonnet?” To which we were all supposed to respond, as if we had a pair (and no, not a pair of bayonnets) “To Kill! To Kill!!! Drill Sergeant!” Now, I might just play this video instead - while fixing bayonnet. Take yer tranqs before viewing.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:56 PMBut if you’re already reading comments, it may be too late. As we used to say in my day Xin loi Mission Facilitator
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WOW!!!
January 11th, 2008 at 5:57 PMUsing
And a hearty FOIST!!
January 11th, 2008 at 5:58 PMUsing
Dang it, crunchie! You got me all weepy!
Thanks, man. :em93:
January 11th, 2008 at 6:12 PMUsing
Very nice slideshow, but boy, does Manowar suck.
January 11th, 2008 at 7:45 PMUsing
HOOAH!!
January 11th, 2008 at 7:49 PMUsing
Cranked them speakers TWICE and it’s still not enough - will have to replay again tomorrow and again yet!
January 11th, 2008 at 10:45 PMAlready sent it to the first of many others who also will appreciate its AWESOMENESS.
The PDF’s quotes as well, are great - will use some in my E-mail cover letters!
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I read the PDF file-very good quotes :em93: :em69: about the military-have seen some of them before.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:32 AMUsing
Too cool.
Ramke was a fire-eating Nazi, the commander of a Luftwaffe Fallshirmjager (paratroop) brigade attached to Romel’s Afrika Korps and not respectful of the U.S. Army. The put-down by the 8th ID leader is classic.
Met Beckworth once. Yeah, that’s just like him.
Glad to see the Hal Moore quote. When I teach the Vietnam War in my U.S. History class, I use the movie “We Were Soldiers” to illustrate Air Cav tactics and to show why we fight.
People forget that professional soldiers read and read some heavy stuff. Feherenbach lives here in San Antonio and his “This Kind of War” is the best history of the Korean War ever written. Sun Tzu has been read by most every literate military leader I know. Like all professionals, we have a common body of literature to draw upon.
Thanks for sharing.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:09 AMUsing
Awesome, simply awesome.
I had an uncle in the Marines who was always talking about Chesty Puller and he apparently said a lot of colorful stuff. I’ve heard other people who had a lot of the same stories.
In Korea Puller and his men were surrounded by the enemy and Puller said, “Great, now we can shoot them from every direction.”
Puller was looking at a flame thrower and said “Where do you put the bayonet?”
I like the scene in the movie Patton where one of his speeches to his troops is given. The quote I always liked best from that is: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
I’d like to hear what quotes other denizens like.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:50 AMUsing
NevadaDailySteve,
- Marshal Aleksandr Suvorov, 18the Century commander
-Gen. N. B. Forrest
January 12th, 2008 at 10:13 AMUsing
I jumped on over to iTunes after I heard the sound track to this. (Side bar: HOOYAH!) If you like this type of music, it’s on their “Warriors Of The World” album (which is also the name of the song itself). An interesting aside…The lead singer does a passable rendition of the opera “Nessum Dorma.” Not Paul Potts or Pavarroti, (Pave-Rottie.. The Official Opera Singertm Of NiceDoggie.net?), but acceptable.
January 12th, 2008 at 11:02 AMUsing
:em99: :em01: Yessir! That is one of my all time favorite Chesty Puller quotes, and there are tons of ‘em! The version I heard had a tad bit more invective however, I think there was a “sumbitch” added at the end.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:02 PMUsing
Crunchie
Great vid, my friend!
I always loved the quote of the British officer at the Arnhem bridge when the Brit Paras were surrounded by German armour and SS Grenadiers and the SS Officer comes with a white flag and tells him he is there to discuss surrender.
With the usual Brit Army dryness the Para said: “Sorry, old boy. Can’t possibly take all you Germans prisoner. We don’t have the facilities, you know.”
Joe D.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:26 PMUsing
Crunch,
Check this out via Blackfive Women fighter pilots
January 12th, 2008 at 3:30 PMUsing
Azygos
Did you know that Canada has women fighter pilots, and they started flying back in the early ‘80S..? We also have women fliers with our Air Transport Command, flying c-130, Airbus and various other transport aircrafts.
Don’t know if we were first to employ women in such roles though…
January 12th, 2008 at 3:44 PMUsing
Re: Bayonet
It never jams.
It never runs out of ammunition.
It’s always there when you need it.
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Remember Joshua Chamberlain at Little Round Top. Remember Hal Moore at the Ia Drang.
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“Very few men are interested in having their guts explored by 18 inches of cold steel.” — G.S. Patton
January 12th, 2008 at 9:20 PMUsing
dont forget the WASP
January 12th, 2008 at 11:57 PMUsing
some of the U.S. female air ferry pilots would have been Aces if they hadn’t disallowed their kills.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:00 AMUsing
From #15
I’m not a fan of putting women on the front line on the ground, and that’s just my personal feeling. I know they can do it if it needs to be done. Russia did it and Israel is ready to do it.
When it come to anything else, women do seem to have an advantage with the multi-tasking involved with modern warfare. When it comes to using weapons against an enemy out to kill us, I don’t care about anything but who is the best at stopping them.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:09 AMUsing
Hardclimber54 and Azygos
The first country to employ Women pilots in a combat role was the Soviet Union, beginning in 1942. One regiment each of fighter pilots, of twin-engine tactical bombers, and of biplane night bombers. The night bomber regiment was similar to over a hundred other units in their AF, except that it has the very best of the whole bunch, and won the coveted Guards title. The fighter regiment was far les successful. Their first commander had to be removed for incompetent leadership and replaced by a man, and later a third of the unit was crewed by men. While the ladies were brave, they seemed to lack aggressiveness, and years later one of their survivors declared the experiment a mistake. In late 1942, eight of their most promising ladies were sent to male regiments, where four were killed, one captured,and the other three were returned to the rear - one of them pregnant. Two of those pilots flying with the men proved capable and achieved the coveted status of “ace”, before being killed - Lilya Litvyak (12 official victories) and Katya Budanova (10 official victories). Lilya was a woman gorgeous by any standards, and became something of a legend. Both were killed during the summer of 1943, but were denied the Hero of the Soviet Union because their bodies were not found, meaning that Stalin considered it possible they could have been captured, becoming automatic traitors. Both bodies were found and identified in the late 1980s, and one of Gorby’s late official acts was awarding the HSU to Lilya Litvyak in May 1990. Katya Budanova had to wait till October 1993, when Yeltsin awarded her one of the first Hero of Russia medals.
Ain’t it amazing the sort of arcane things you can learn at The Rottie?
January 13th, 2008 at 3:38 PMUsing