Richard Ojeda Quotes

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.

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

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

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

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

I had spent years in the United States military. Specifically in the U.S. Navy.

I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that.

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions - or got knocked out - whichever came first.

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

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

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

I was raised in the paratroopers.

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

When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

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

I would like to have had that experience of combat. I would have liked to.

I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military.

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.

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

I myself am a former commando fighter.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

I am a retired United States Marine Corporal and I started out in 2nd Battalion Night Marines on my deployment and I finished my career in the Marine Corps at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as a patient.