Military quotes...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

If I understood this correctly talking to a US colonel... The marines are part of the navys budget, not the armys... And as navy people REALLY don't bother with army stuff, they basically have to make do with the "trickling down" effect of the army.

I guess that's why they have to adapt to overcome (... their lousy equipment).

This was in 2001 though, perhaps USMC these days get to play with real soldiers equipment.

That's the basic gist of it. The effect isn't so pronounced after WW2 and the huge-upscaling in defense contracting, but prior to WW2 it was the norm. The USMC were equipped only after the US Army had been fully equipped etc. For example, the large majority of marines in the 1st division landing at Guadalcanal in August of 1942 were equipped with the bolt action '03 Springfield while virtually all of the Army units at that time, with the exception NG units stateside, were equipped with the semi-automatic m1 Garand.

[Kadagar_AV]

UN duty, platoon isn't really enthusiastic about the new orders...

Officer: "You are here to defend democracy, not practise it!!"

[Kadagar_AV]

Morning line up:

Sgt: Good morning indians!
Platoon: Good morning Sergeant!
Sgt: Good morning indians!
Platoon: Good morning Sergeant!
Sgt: NOOO!!! You are supposed to direct me as chief, and use "ugh" instead of yes!! Is that understood!?
Platoon: Yes Sergeant!!
Sgt: *sighs* Why oh why did I get this platoon?




Sgt towards platoon (when we just got our skis): Who here haven't been on skis before?
Some guys raise their hands.
Sgt: Great, this is gonna be fun...



Private: Quality beats quantity...
Captain: (walking past): How could your mother stand that many children?


Training with vehicle mounted machine gun...
Private (left handed): Captain, this doesn't work left handed.
Captain: You can't blame the army for your parents mis****.

[Fisherking]

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...."
- Major-General John Sedgwick, 9 may 1864.
Killed by a sniper during the battle of Spotsylvania.

"My only fear is that the Zulu will not fight"
- Lieutenant-General Lord Chelmsford,
commanding British forces, just before the invasion of Zululand.

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
- General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 1944

"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
- Josephus Daniels

"It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
- Ferdinand Foch

"We are going to find a solution to the Middle East conflict as soon as the Arabs agrees with us.."
- Moshe Dayan, Israeli Minister of Defense during the Six Say War (1967)