Josh Mandel Quotes

We are extending basic training. It'll be the longest and toughest in the world.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

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

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

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

There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

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.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The volunteer system must be replaced … Let us not be blind to the realities … The day we could put guns into the hands of citizen soldiers, teach the manual of arms and send them to match their spirit and brawn against an enemy has passed.

As soldiers the militia are not worth their rations

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.