Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 "Contrary to popular belief, we at artillery command do not believe we're God. We merely borrowed His 'Smite' button." -- Anonymous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Okay, now that brings a smile...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 and smite they do GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Artillery brings dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Smokepole #29248L Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 We bring down God's fury upon the usurpers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods--his horse and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.-Rudyard Kipling "Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . ."Napoleon Bonaparte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Clear orders: Special Orders to No.1 Section 13/3/18 (1) This position will be held, and the section will remain here until relieved. (2) The enemy cannot be allowed to interfere with this programme. (3) If the section cannot remain here alive, it will remain here dead, but in any case it will remain here. (4) Should any man, through shell shock or other cause, attempt to surrender, he will remain here dead. (5) Should all guns be blown out, the section will use Mills grenades and other novelties. (6) Finally, the position as stated, will be held. F.P. Bethune Lt O/C No.1 Section Aa set of orders that an Australian LT gave to his machine-gun section on the western front in WWI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 Just remembered this. Believe it was Patton who admonished his troops not to die for their country but to make those SOB's on the other side die for theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I like dat !!! Mind ifin' I barrow it when I pull out my Walkers !? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 "You can't describe the moral lift, when in the fight your spirits weary hears above the hostile fire, Your own artillery. Shells score the air like wavy hair from a forward battery. As regimental cannon crack While from positions further back, in bitter sweet song overhead crashing discordantly Division's pounding joins the attack; Mother like she belches shell; Glorious it flies, and well, As, with a hissing screaming squall, A roaring furnace, giving all, she sears a path for the infantry...." - Aleksandr Tvardovskiy, from the poem "Vasily Tyorkin" 1943 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 'Bones must have cracked open the Romulan ale tonight! JHC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 'Bones must have cracked open the Romulan ale tonight! JHC Still twitchin' from spraying the range this morning with Roundup and Crossbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 "There is only one decisive victory: the last." von Clausewitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 "Sure I'll sign up for Airborne. What's Airborne?" Utah Bob 1966 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 "strike me down and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine" Obi Wan Kanobi GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickahominy Charlie Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 "If the tanks succeed, then victory follows." --Heinz Guderian "An Army of a$$es lead by a lion is preferable to an Army of lions led by an a$$." --George Washington Chick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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