Context Quote by Todd Wilcox

“Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory…

— Bruce H. Norton

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a…

— Mark Dayton

I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They…

— Adam Driver

And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war…

— Michael Hastings

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

— Gavin Hood

I'll never experience the hardships that I experienced while going to Iraq and being in combat. And that kind of prepared me for life…

— Liz Carmouche

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

— Brian Stann

I believe the connection is growing stronger. Just to think that 40-plus years ago, service members would return from combat to get spit on…

— Lee Zeldin

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part…

— Chuck Norris

“Craig Bryan, a University of Texas psychologist and suicide expert who recently left the air force, told Time magazine that the military finds itself…

— Brené Brown

“There are two things a combat deployment offers which all of us strongly desire. The first, being purpose. Every morning we woke up and…

— Adam Fenner

Army life don't agree with me.

— Eddie Slovik