What's your

[DD696]

Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

[witpqs]

"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
- Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland USNR, USS Samuel B. Roberts, October 25, 1944

[witpqs]

"Get there first with the most and don't tell nobody you're coming!"

[RUPD3658]

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"[:D] LTC Kilgore


Also famous for "What do you know about surfing...you're from goddamn New Jersey"[8D]

[AW1Steve]

True , we would always do our emergency landings at Air Force bases , even if we had to fly a while to get there. If you've got to wait while they fix your plane , you might as well wait in comfort....[:D]

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Yakface




It's a pity that quote holds little water

[:D] I don't know about that...ever eaten at a Navy (insert your favorite branch of service here) chowhall? [:D]

I don't think the Air Force can complain...we used to plan our runs to be near an Air Force chow hall around chow time...[:D]

[JWE]

Only 2.

What 'n the wide wide world 'o sports is a goin on here.

Somebody go back & get a $#itload 'a dimes.

[AW1Steve]

Probably the only two semi-politically correct lines in the whole movie... God it's a great one! [:D]

ORIGINAL: JWE

Only 2.

What 'n the wide wide world 'o sports is a goin on here.

Somebody go back & get a $#itload 'a dimes.

[joey]

When in Command, Command! Chester Nimitz

[Grotius]

"Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

[Big B]

The preceding are all classic - without exception (especially Shakespear).[;)]

But my favorite came from the USMC (and this is a lot for a US Army infantryman to admit);

"Come on you sons a bitches...do you want to live forever?!"
 - Sergeant Dan Daly,  USMC, 5th Marines, Belleau Wood, June 1918.

And the unknown private who responded;
"Is 18 being greedy??!!"

B

[FeurerKrieg]

ORIGINAL: swift

nuts

This has always been one of my favorites as well.

[JeffroK]

Maybe one of our Brits can dig this up, I think written by Frost of 2 Para at Arnhem about beating the germans in Nth Africa, Italy etc.
 
In a similar vein (I'll find this one) written up by an Aussie Officer in 1918 about, staying in this position, staying here dead etc!!

[FeurerKrieg]

I love that scene in ABTF

[an SS officer is approaching under a white flag]
Major Harry Carlyle: Rather interesting development, sir.
[to the German]
Major Harry Carlyle: That's far enough! We can hear you from there!
SS Panzer Officer: My general says there is no point in continuing this fighting! He wishes to discuss terms of a surrender!
Major Harry Carlyle: Shall I answer him, sir?
Lt. Col. John Frost: Tell him to go to hell.
Major Harry Carlyle: We haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner! Sorry!
SS Panzer Officer: [confused] What?
Major Harry Carlyle: We'd like to, but we can't accept your surrender! Was there anything else?
[German officer walks off]
Lt. Col. John Frost: Well, that's that.
[the officer returns to General Bittrich, and they converse in German]
SS Panzer Officer: They rejected our surrender offer. What are your orders, Herr General?
Lt. General Bittrich: Flatten Arnhem.

Another interesting bit of trivia:
# According to the DVD edition, the real-life Col. John Frost chided Anthony Hopkins during the filming for running from house to house during the battle for Arnhem. According to Hopkins, Frost told him that a British officer would never have run but would have shown disdain for enemy fire by walking from place to place. Hopkins claims he tried but as soon as the firing started, instincts took over and he ran as fast as he could.

[Sardaukar]

"To meaningless French Idealism, Liberty, Fraternity and Equality...we answer with German Realism, Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery" -Prince von Bülov, 1870-

[8D]

[Hipper]

er this

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

... According to the DVD edition, the real-life Col. John Frost chided Anthony Hopkins during the filming for running from house to house during the battle for Arnhem. According to Hopkins, Frost told him that a British officer would never have run but would have shown disdain for enemy fire by walking from place to place

They showed the same disdain during the Rev War; that's how the Pennsylvania Long Rifle became known as the "most feared widow and orphan maker" in the world.

I suspect that this British disdain for bullets is rooted in the ancient custom of painting oneself blue before going into battle.

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

... I don't think the Air Force can complain...we used to plan our runs to be near an Air Force chow hall around chow time...[:D]

During Desert Storm we were tired of MREs, so after running an errand in town, we stopped at an AFB for lunch; silver tea service, tablecloths and metal cutlery!

We were dusty and dressed in BDUs w/full LBE, protective masks, and weapons; the AF personnel looked at us as if we were from Mars!

[tsimmonds]

ORIGINAL: Hipper

er this

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"Gefechtwendung nach Steuerbord"

That?! That's just a fancy way of saying "Run away!"[;)]

[jumper]

"I don´t know what weapons will be used in WW3, but I´m sure in WW4 it will be stones and clubs again.."
Albert Einstein
 
"I prefer german division ahead of me rather then french division behind me.."
Patton

[Milman]

Soldiers! Heroes! The supreme command has erased our regiment from its records. Our regiment is sacrificed for King and Fatherland. You no longer have to worry for your lives which do not exist. So, forward to glory! Long live the king! Long live Belgrade! - major Dragutin Gavrilovic, to defenders of Belgrade in First World War (1915.)