Philippe Perrin Quotes

You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

In 2001, I was an Air Force lieutenant colonel and A-10 fighter pilot stationed in Saudi Arabia, in charge of rescue operations for no-fly enforcement in Iraq and then in Afghanistan.

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

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

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.