Phil Klay Quotes

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

Military children don't make foreign policy but they live it.

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

I was a military brat; we moved all around.

The first time I ever went to Texas was on a bus with curtains draped over the windows. I just joined the military and got shipped off to basic training in San Antonio.

I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.

Mississippi is a welcoming duty station for servicemembers and their working spouses.

Military families are resilient through countless relocations, leaving friends, networks and transitioning to new schools and new jobs while fitting in to new communities.

Launching a ground war against Iran would require hundreds of thousands of troops for a 'regime change followed by nation-building' operation, as we attempted in Iraq. Iran has a much more modern military, more than double Iraq's population, and almost four times the landmass.

This is the hardest part of military family life - being away from each other.

It is always difficult to leave your mates and your club in the middle of the season for another competition.

When I married into the military a few years ago, I was failing at navigating the realities of deployment alone. When I turned to the military family community, their tried and true coping skills changed my life.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.

I've do a lot of USO shows and do whatever I can to support the military.

I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.

I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

We need to look at [Osama bin Laden killing ] as a great victory for the American military and intelligence personnel and for the American people. A lot of bravery and courage displayed by those folks on behalf of all of us. It's also a good day for the administration. I think President [Barack] Obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in, and they deserve a lot of credit, too.

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.