Combat Preparation Quotes

If you contemplate some enterprise against the enemy, the commissary must scrape together all the beer and brandy that can be found so that the army does not lack either …

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

I'd have to change all my training style to fight Cyborg.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

For girls it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight actually. Not with like everybody, I don't put out like a Craigslist ad or anything, but if I got a steady I'm going to be like 'yo, fight time's coming up.

We trained like we fight.

They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for the people putting it on. They keep you out in the woods and won't let you come back until you're funny. Lenny Bruce came up with his Religions Inc. bit on a day hike.

Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

If a military mission has no guide who knows the inside information of the opponents, it will likely have to retreat half of the way.

So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

I'm a very detailed fighter. I'm very detailed.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Posture for combat is so vital.

I fought for, like, five years in Hawaii - nothing better than that. It was awesome. Every fight, I went on vacation, and I wasn't cutting any weight, so I could just eat whatever I wanted. I enjoyed it.

Going to fight Gilbert Burns while not training jiu-jitsu, I mean, that's just stupid.

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

For every new guy, you need to change a few things in the way you train, the way you take every fight. For every guy I train for, I prepare differently and learn new things, and I just keep them. That's why it's good to be fighting new people, because you add new things to your arsenal and keep getting better and better all the time.

The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.

When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters: you need to be ready for a full-fledged campaign on the operational level and have the diplomatic backing lined up as well.