November 16, 2003
Interesting Military Quotes
My friend Nima felt you may enjoy these quotes, particularly since some of you had that lively discussion about quotes earlier. Thanks!
"Aim towards the enemy."
- Instruction printed on U.S. Army rocket launcher
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
- U.S. Army training notice
"Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate.
From 30,000 feet, every single bomb always hits the ground."
- U.S. Air Force ammunition memo.
"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
- Infantry Journal
"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire
when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in
what's left of your unit."
- Army preventive maintenance publication
"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."
- Infantry Journal
"Tracers work both ways."
- U.S. Army Ordnance Corps memo.
"Five-second fuses only last three seconds."
- Infantry Journal
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
- Col. David H. Hackworth
"If your attack is going too well, you're probably walking
into an ambush."
- Infantry Journal
"No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection."
- Joe Gay
"Any ship can be a minesweeper - once."
- Anonymous
"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do."
- Unknown Army recruit
"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you."
- Your buddies
"If you see a bomb disposal technician running, try to keep up with him."
- U.S. Army ordnance manual
"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed"
- U.S. Air Force flight training manual
Coooooool!
Posted by: Amir at November 17, 2003 03:30 AMsalam pedram aziz
baraye farhad va farhadha dideganam ashkbarast.
dooste khoobam man be shoma link dadam
I guess these quotes show that the US was targetting Canadians during the so-called friendly-fire incident in Afghanistan, one of the reasons Canadians said "No, thanks." to Iraq. I believe it was practice for the future US military invasion of Canada. You know the US has still not gotten over the fact that Canada beat the sh*t out of them in the War of 1812. They'll call it Manifest Destiny.
Posted by: Advanced Calculus at November 17, 2003 06:07 AMPedram What has happened to
Iranian Blogs (English)?
Is this cuased by a spammer?
Is it going to happen to all of us?
sassan,
blogrolling got hacked into and given that pedram and a lot of us use their services to update our links, it makes a big different. As long as you don't use blogrolling you should be ok. If you do then we'll have to wait and see if the problem gets fixed or not.
Posted by: Nema at November 17, 2003 08:13 AMYea it got fixed, I did'nt see mine getting hijacked but thanks the news is everywhere.
Posted by: Sassan at November 17, 2003 01:00 PMhey nice quotes
Posted by: someone at December 20, 2003 06:53 AMThese quotes are nice, though they only apply to previous campaigns in which the U.S. had formidable enemies. The U.S. has completely run out of capable adversaries in which to engage in the science and art of war. What we are left with now are thousands of middle eastern religious whack-o "cockroaches" that have to be squashed, one-by-one. These quotes are a thing of the past, for no one will ever give the U.S. military a truely fair fight, but simply harrass us with cowardly sucker punches.
Posted by: U.S. Military Member at March 18, 2004 05:38 AMWar IS hell...no doubt about that...but,
The Impossible becomes easy, when you have no choice.
The reason YOU are at home now, relaxed and reading this on you PC is beacause of MEN who gave and give there lives for you...
whatever may happen...
Respect the Soldiers...and remember what generations of them have done for you.
On June 6th 2004 it will be D-Day(Omaha beach) 's 60th anniversary...Lest we forget.
P.O.W & M.I.A. : You will NOT be forgotten.
Astaroth Out.
Posted by: {SOD}Gen-Astaroth at March 28, 2004 05:06 PM