MJ Hegar Quotes

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

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.

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

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'm the son of a Navy veteran, my two sisters are in the Air Force, I have a cousin who's a Navy Seal, and more.

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focus on fighting. I didn't want to just get deployed. I wanted to get in on the action.

I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.

When we are growing up, we all have our dreams - and for me, I idolised the men of the Indian army, navy, air force.

I'm a combat soldier.

I was raised in the paratroopers.

'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.

I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

I served four years in the Air Force in South Korea, and my brother, Aaron, served in the Army there, too, on the DMZ.

Our military members should be able to defend themselves here and abroad.

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, 'Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.'

Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.

When I was 18, I went into the army as a payroll clerk because otherwise I was headed for Korea.

My father is a retired Navy officer; my sister is in the army. For me, defence services have been close to my heart.

I tried to join the RAF cadets at school so I could fly a plane but then I realised you had to do all the other cadet stuff like training before they let you in a plane. Then you're roped in for life.

Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.

My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.

I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras, to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the emergence of China.