Military Combat Quotes

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

… war by its nature entails terrible injustice to many individuals and that acceptance of that injustice as the lesser evil is implicit in any decision to send the military into combat.

I've been a fan of 'Call of Duty' for a long time.

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions - or got knocked out - whichever came first.

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.

A movie like 'Edge of Tomorrow' is so huge and complex - the spectacle and action is all-consuming - and that on its own is enough of a reason for a lot of people to see it.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.