Willie Aames Quotes

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

Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.

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

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

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'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

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

Shall This Continue? Join the Navy.

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

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

Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.

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

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

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.

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

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

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.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.