1. To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
2. The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
3. Murphy's Law of Combat: "Never forget that your weapon was manufactured by the lowest bidder"
4."They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - General John Sedgwick (1813-1864), last words
5.When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
6.If the enemy is in range, so are you.
7.Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
8.If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
9.If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.
10.Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
11.Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
12.A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
13.Everybody looks brave holding a machine gun.
14.Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror and you wouldn't have been notified.
15.Remember: The old adage "Fight fire with fire" does not apply to non-metaphorical fires.
16.Friendly fire - isn't.
17.When in doubt empty the magazine.
18.If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.
19. Clever is getting out alive.
20. The easy way is always mined.
2 comments to WITTY SAYINGS FROM THE ARMY
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Unknown My dear Walt
Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful quotations. They don'thave such military men anymore...who are vicious and yet honest in what they do and say.
Hope you had a wonderful camping trip!
Take care and blessings to you and yours always.
Walt Very funny, war can be strange.
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
- Ambrose Bierce
"My fellow Americans. I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
President Reagan, before a scheduled radio broadcast,
unaware that the microphone was already on.
"Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders."
- Attributed to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
on how he selects officers for staff and command.
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
- General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 1944