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The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

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An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to…
In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a…
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how…
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much,…
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe…
I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat…
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a…
Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands…
I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a…

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As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry… — Unknown Author
Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly.… — George S. Patton
The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the… — Winston Churchill
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going… — Louis Simpson
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a… — George Kennedy
There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical… — Paul Craig Roberts
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged… — Vasily Grossman
I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry. — Geraldo Rivera
If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there. — Georgy Zhukov
The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by… — Unknown Author
At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard… — Arthur Fremantle
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of… — Daniel Harvey Hill

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