On some air bases the Air Force is on one side of the field and civilian
aircraft use the other side of the field, with the control tower in the
middle.
One day the tower received a call from an aircraft asking,
“What time is it?”
The tower responded, “Who is calling?”
The aircraft replied, “What difference does it make?”
The tower replied, “It makes a lot of
difference:
If it is a commercial flight, it is 3 o’clock.
If it is a Marine Corps plane, it is 1500 hours.
If it is a Navy aircraft, it is 6 bells.
If it is an Army aircraft, the big hand is on the 12 and the
little hand is on the 3.
If it is an Air Force aircraft, it’s Thursday afternoon and
120 minutes to “Happy Hour.”
Humor in uniform:
“Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose
of storing dead batteries.”
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission
properly.’
- David Hackworth
“Things that must be together to work,
usually can’t be shipped together.”
– Supply Training Manual
“If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.”
– Naval Ops Manual
Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last,
and don't ever volunteer for anything.
A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think
of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
Radios will fail as soon as you desperately need fire support.
When in doubt, empty the magazine.
– Korean War Advice
The easy way is always mined.
– Army Special Ops Manual
Incoming fire has the right of way.
– Marine adage
Anything you do can get you shot, including doing nothing.
– Ranger Manual
No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the
minds and hearts of his men.
– Anonymous, The Infantry Journal
Letter from an OverSeas Soldier
• There is a two-thousand-year-old letter from a Roman soldier
to his family complaining about:
• being away from home,
• trying to communicate with people who speak in a strange tongue,
• living in an untenable climate,
• being offered food their mothers never heard of, much less prepared.
He was in what is now called … England.