“A platoon leader signs for approximately $4.5 million worth of combat equipment on an organizational hand receipt. Essentially, that's four Bradleys complete, each one with 88 to 100 lines of basic issue item (BIIs), tools, and accessories.”

--Infantry Magazine, November-December 1996

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“You know, it's not yet been proved to me that two heads aren't better than one.”

--Thomas Sarsfield Power, Third CINCSAC, on radiation damage to the unborn.

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“Don't worry, the initiation [of a nuclear bomb] won't kill you. The fall to the bottom of the crater will.”

--Stuart Slade, Civilian Analyst, Hudson Institute, then Forecast International.

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"In Japan we dropped 502,000 tons and we won the war.

In Vietnam we dropped 6,162,000 tons of bombs and we lost the war.

The difference was that McNamara chose the targets in Vietnam and I chose the targets in Japan.”

--Curtis E. LeMay, Second CINCSAC, on targeteering.

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“The Chief of Staff arrived one day toward the end of the exercise. After lunch, we went to visit one of the combat commands which was about to begin a tactical mission. I told him that I hoped he would go along, riding in an armored personnel carrier with an armored infantry squad.

This he did. He rode in the carrier for over two hours without a stop. When it finally halted near the starting point, I was waiting for the Chief of Staff. As the back doors opened, he and the infantry squad got out. They were hot and dusty. It was obvious that they had not talked to each other very much during the trip. The Chief of Staff, apparently a bit shaken and bored by his long ride across country, called the squad leader and said, "Sergeant, doesn't the heat, noise, darkness, vibration and dust inside of the carrier bother you and your men?" To which the Sergeant answered, "Yes sir, but not as much as walking, sir!"”

“When the Armored Personnel Carrier was saved for the Army” - General Bruce C. Clarke USA (Ret); Armor – September-October 1971

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[In the Future], anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the U.S. military is involved, then things which are not worth the cost of a missile will also be shot at with missiles.

--Sea Skimmer on Star Destroyer Net

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“Cordite is safe as long as you remember it is dangerous.”

--Royal Navy Manual

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“If you really want to know what it was like to fight in the air in the Great War, then go up to someone you have never met before...and pour a two-gallon tin of petrol over them. Then apply a match, and when they are nicely ablaze, push them from a fifteenth-floor window, after perhaps shooting them a few times in the back with a revolver.”

--“The Two-Headed Eagle”

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“He flies on a wing and a prayer, the other wing I took off.”

--Starshy Leytenant Molotov

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“Ban the bomb! Save the world for conventional warfare!”

--Unknown

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“When firing a shell from North to South over seven miles, the effect that causes the shell to miss the aimpoint is called:”

a. Corolis effect
b. Damn privates.
c. Damn Orficers.
d. God Bless the NCOs, we didn't miss.
e. What target? We were just doing a functional check. Was that live ammo?

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“A mouse is an animal that if killed in sufficiently many and creative ways will generate a PhD.”

--Not really a military quote; but good enough.

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“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”

--Ambrose Bierce