Air Quote by Howard Zinn

My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity,…

— Valerie Plame

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us…

— Mark Burnett

I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.

— Eric Greitens

Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could…

— Samantha Power

“This is an incredibly realistic training exercise—even down to the point of using ethnically correct pilots, and detonating fake explosives on the ships. Lawrence…

— Neal Stephenson

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

— Ruth Duccini

I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and I was…

— Donnis

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those…

— Manfred von Richthofen

When I was in my third tour in Afghanistan, I was shot down. I was injured to the point where I couldn't fly anymore,…

— MJ Hegar

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

— Sally Ride

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

— Paul Berg

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one…

— Gus Grissom