--- title: "5 Active Military Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 5 Active Military quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Active Military sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/steven-d-levitt-5284_medical-care_from-2002-to-2008-the-united-states-was_266907.jpg" --- > [“From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-d-levitt/from-2002-to-2008-the-united-states-was-fighting-bloody-wars-in/) [Steven D. Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-d-levitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/steven-d-levitt-5284_medical-care_from-2002-to-2008-the-united-states-was_266907.jpg) > [“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/smedley-butler/i-spent-thirty-three-years-and-four-months-in-active-military-service/) [Smedley Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/smedley-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/smedley-butler-17291_big-business_i-spent-thirty-three-years-and-four-mont_454963.jpg) > [I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/smedley-butler/i-spent-thirty-three-years-and-four-months-in-active-military-service-2/) [Smedley Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/smedley-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0d/smedley-butler-17291_active_i-spent-thirty-three-years-and-four-mont_2428953.png) > [After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-vindman/after-21-years-six-months-and-10-days-of-active-military-service-i-am/) [Alexander Vindman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-vindman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bd/alexander-vindman-32319_army_after-21-years-six-months-and-10-days-of_2545743.jpg) > [We're trying to do everything we can through Good Ride to raise money and awareness for active military, and more so veterans.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carey-hart/we-re-trying-to-do-everything-we-can-through-good-ride-to-raise-money/) [Carey Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carey-hart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c5/carey-hart-13514_awareness_we-re-trying-to-do-everything-we-can-thr_2654266.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/active-military/#itemlist", "name": "Active Military Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an average 1,643 fatalities per year. But over the same stretch of time in the early 1980s, with the United States fighting no major wars, there were more than 2,100 military deaths per year. How can this possibly be? For one, the military used to be much larger: 2.1 million on active duty in 1988 versus 1.4 million in 2008. But even the rate of death in 2008 was lower than in certain peacetime years. Some of this improvement is likely due to better medical care. But a surprising fact is that the accidental death rate for soldiers in the early 1980s was higher than the death rate by hostile fire for every year the United States has been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seems that practicing to fight a war can be just about as dangerous as really fighting one. And,”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Steven D. 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