Sedalia Dave Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 "Run away! Save yourselves!" Courtesy of an EOD guy as he crouched behind a ballistic shield laughing hysterically. There were grenades cooking off inside a burning vehicle. On a t-shirt worn by the EOD team stationed at NAS Whidbey Island. " I'm EOD If you see me running you better catch up" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 "No matter how much you polish a turd it is still a turd" "A chrome plated turd is still a turd at heart" From the PMA-209 Quotable Quotes board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mackenna Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 You can't take no pictures lying down there on the ground sonny boy! Said to a war correspondent taking cover under fire during the battle of I-Drang valley Vietnam. They were soldiers once and young, God bless them all. Mackenna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 After you pull the pin, Mr.Grenade is no longer your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Doug Dalton SASS#65449L Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Uttered by a sailor from Taffy 3, in the Battle off Samar, where a few destroyers and destroyer escorts engaged a fleet of Japanese battleships, including the Yamato and both heavy and light crusiers. When he saw the Japanese fleet turn to retire, he yelled, "Hey fellows, they're getting away." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branchwater Jack SASS #88854 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Is that a Pledge Pin on your Uniform? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 "No matter how big the operation or how much planning went into it, when the first round is fired it all goes to hell." William G. Martin, Master Sergeant, Infantry to a group of high school ROTC cadets. He retired the day I was commissioned, but he retired as a full Colonel. I'm proud to say I considered him a friend and mentor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Balz, SASS#46599 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Hung over the door at an SR -71 hanger " you don't know what it's like to be lost , until you lost at Mach 3 " " I fly through the valley of death and fear no evil , because I'm flying at Mach 3 at 70,000 feet" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancocas Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 A Ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. Adm. David Dixon Porter, USN in a letter toColonel Commandant John Harris, USMC, 1863 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branchwater Jack SASS #88854 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 You're never beaten until you admit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Definately a winner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 This might be a little long, but here's something an army man told me about marines. They take some scrawny kid who goes out every weekend and gets his butt beat at the bars ... they put him through basic, train him to fight, teach him to be a soldier, turn him into a By-God Marine. That kid goes home for leave and he goes to those same bars and gets his butt beat by the same people. But the difference is, now he thinks he's winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection. If your attack is going really well, you're probably walking into an ambush. and for all you Air Force types: The 3 most useless things to a pilot - - altitude above you, runway behind you, and a half second ago. Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, any landing where you can still use the plane is a great landing! and of course, any of the quotes from Thermopylae! There was another ancient Greek quote that might fit here too. Any nation that makes too great a distinction between scholars and warriors will have its fighting done by cowards and its thinking done by fools. and finally, the most common quote ever from any enlisted man in any branch That's the stupidest *@&%*#(@$*! thing I ever heard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Old Man Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 My Army DI told us after hand to hand training-I have just taught you enough to go into town and get your ass whipped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Not a quote, just an expression I heard often: "I love the f** army/navy and the army/navy loves f** me." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Words of wisdom by SSgt Buxton my first night at Ft. Riley. " WHEN I YELL FALL OUT, I WANT TO SEE ONE A$$HOLE GOING THROUGH THAT DOOR. " "YOU WILL BE IN PLATOON FORMATION WHEN I ARRIVE." It seemed to work pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 From the Vietnam era "We the unwilling lead by the unknowing for the ungrateful have been doing so much for so long with so little we are now qualified to anything with nothing" "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions!" "One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 "Son, did you ever spend a million dollars?" "No, Sergeant, never did." "Now's your chance. I want you to call in an air strike on that tree line." In that same swampy part of the world, the column was under sound discipline. Nothing rattled, nothing loose, nothing jingled, everyone was treading with stealth and silence, until point cut loose on something full-burp, dumped an entire mag full auto in one burst. Killed that-there cobra snake graveyard dead. The LT came screaming to the head of the column and started to rip him a new one until he interrupted with what he saw as solid logic. "Dammit, LT, I didn't have time t'call in an air strike!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Cash Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 How about "War is Hell" attributed to Gen William T. Sherman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger Mike Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Our Drill Sergeant always told us, "there is more room outside than inside" whenever gas exited someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Jack Hammer Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 In boot camp our commander who was a major came into our barracks and the guard called the barracks to attention as he was supposed to and then the major put us at ease. A few minutes later a Lt came into the barracks and the guard called us all to attention....including the major. The Lt saw the major standing at attention and froze of course, our drill sgt saw this and ran over to the guard and yelled at him that he now had a major standing at attention for a leutenant and what was he going to do....the guard, in a loud confident voice yelled out "Major, at ease!"... Haha that went over well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 "Major, at ease!"AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! (If only...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 "No matter how much you polish a turd it is still a turd" "A chrome plated turd is still a turd at heart" From the PMA-209 Quotable Quotes board. Same concept: "Paint a turd white and what do you get? A white turd." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Fat fingers+tiny keys=duplicate postings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 In boot camp our commander who was a major came into our barracks and the guard called the barracks to attention as he was supposed to and then the major put us at ease. A few minutes later a Lt came into the barracks and the guard called us all to attention....including the major. The Lt saw the major standing at attention and froze of course, our drill sgt saw this and ran over to the guard and yelled at him that he now had a major standing at attention for a leutenant and what was he going to do....the guard, in a loud confident voice yelled out "Major, at ease!"... Haha that went over well. A similar, actually almost opposite event, occurred when I was in basic training. Standing in line for chow and our CO walks in. The private nearest the door shouts "at ease" and everything is fine. He is sitting eating with a couple of drill sergeants when our XO walks in. When nothing happens, he lays into the closest soldiers, me included, for not calling at ease. About 10-15 seconds in (could have been a lot longer, it sure seemed like it), the CO pipes up and yells "What's the problem lieutenant?" Our XO looks, does a double take, looks at us and says "carry on." and walks off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 One of mine when I was an NCO/WO in the United States Army of America. "Burning a Second Lieutenant is right next to child abuse." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 AS said by CSM O'Connell , in ref to a 2 LT Common sence , AIN'T so common , NO more CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major E A Sterner #12916 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 "Nothing more dangerous than a 2nd Lt with a map and a compass" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Not being a military man, I don't understand the 'at ease' stories. But it sounds like you're only supposed to stand at attention for a new person entering the area if that person will be the highest ranking one? Not even the privates? Do I have that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Not being a military man, I don't understand the 'at ease' stories. But it sounds like you're only supposed to stand at attention for a new person entering the area if that person will be the highest ranking one? Not even the privates? Do I have that right?You don't call a senior officer to attention for a lower-ranking officer, and you especially do not try to put an officer at ease. Not sure but I don't think even a very senior officer would or can put a junior officer at ease. Attention, yes, at ease, mm not so much. EDIT I don't recall the command, but in navy basic if an officer was already present and another junior officer entered, there was a command to announce his arrival without actually calling the room to attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 "At ease" is the proper command when in a mess hall, any medical facility, or where men are working. You don't call a man to attention when he's moving heavy stuff around or eating. Too many mishaps can occur and it just isn't done. I learned that from General Horner when I was a young Company Commander on Okinawa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Jack Hammer Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 "At ease" is the proper command when in a mess hall, any medical facility, or where men are working. You don't call a man to attention when he's moving heavy stuff around or eating. Too many mishaps can occur and it just isn't done. I learned that from General Horner when I was a young Company Commander on Okinawa. More of something that happened to me than a quote…but when I was in advanced training after basic to be a lineman (yes the Air force had people that climbed wood poles and work on high voltage) I injured my ankle in a fall. I was exempt from marching to the school so I limped along on my crutches carrying my stupid little briefcase also. A young butter bar Lt walked past me and I said "good morning sir" as we passed by each other, of course I couldn't salute. He stopped, called me over to him and said "don't you salute officers, airman?" I moved my crutches and briefcase to my left hand, hopped on one foot and saluted him, then he walked on. Unbeknownst to us both but passing nearby was this blue sedan with a pecular blue flag on the fender with a gold star on it. The car stopped at the Lt, a formidable figure with the same gold star on his collar jumped out and railed on the LT for what he just saw him make me do, made him apologize to me then carry my briefcase for me to my training building, where I met him because the wing commander gave me a ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G. I. Tarpicker, SASS #998 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 During WW2, a young Ensign serving aboard ship in the Pacific whose wife was about to deliver their first child went to the ship's Captain to request leave so he could be home for the blessed event. The Skipper turned him down saying, "Ensign, you are necessary only at the laying of the keel. At the launching, you are merely superfluous." GIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uno Mas SASS #80082 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Captain Murphy was an optimist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Captain Murphy was an optimist. I thought he was a Rotarian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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