Dick Strawbridge Quotes

My entire adult life has been in military. That's a big part of my life and a big part of why I am the person with the experience to be the United States senator.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.

My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it's difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.

Everything I do in my political life is colored by my military service. It was the defining moment in my life and helped me develop the leadership skills that I still utilize.

Military service might sound like a totally different environment, but every experience you fall back on later, it makes you smarter. Why wouldn't that be true of the military, too?

Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.

Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.

I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide array of answers. Some people get very emotional, which is understandable. Two of my best friends growing up are in the armed services, and getting to represent those guys was a big honor for me.

While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

I'm a soldier and I'm positive no one thinks of me as a politician.

I am a West Point graduate and an Army veteran.

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.