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Soldiers Quotes
Quotes on duty, discipline, and command.
This set stays close to the idea of soldiers as a team to be led and coordinated, echoed in one line comparing a general's command of troops to a musician commanding the keys of an instrument. That sense of structured Duty runs through it.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- April
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Federal employees are public servants, not partisan foot soldiers for President Obama, and shouldn't have to decide whether a partisan White House request can be ignored without consequences.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.
- Canoe
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.
- American Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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