battlefield camaraderie Quotes

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.