Troop Training Quotes

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

I think the troops deserve the best equipment on the battlefield, the best training, and American armor if they get in trouble.

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

I don't run a democracy. I train troops to defend democracy.

While we are deploying troops in their thousands, we lose the chance to build up their basic skills.

Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.

We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.

Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.

I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well paid, well trained, well equipped.

They are pretty good officers now, and after a while they will make excellent soldiers too. They only need reducing to the ranks.