Daniel J. Evans Quotes

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

Shall This Continue? Join the Navy.

I was not born with many technical skills. I had to improve and work.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.'

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.