Combat Duty Quotes

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently. And while many will argue that women will only be allowed into combat arms units under the same requirements as their male counterparts, count me as skeptical.

My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!

Any Roman citizen may join the Army.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

I could always fight overseas, but who wants to do that? They'd really have to make it worth my while.

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.

It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actually drafted into combat. I'm very uncomfortable with that.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.