Battlefield Readiness Quotes

It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.