Rudyard Kipling(The soldiers poet)
 

Two quotes from one of my favorite authors and poets:

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.


If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

John Logan
 

"If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us."

"Never take counsel of your fears."
-- Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863)

The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of “loyalty” and “duty.” Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute--get out of there fast. You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

Robert Heinlein

A quote in reverse
 

Custer started to beleive his own press.

Miyamoto Musashi
 

Here are a few from Miyamoto Musashi:

"Do nothing that is of no use"

“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”

“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”

and my favorite:

"It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first."

Miyamoto Musashi
 

Another from Miyamoto Musashi:

"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."

country observation
 

"That boy is so hard on shit he could F**k up an anvil"

My uncle speaking about his son.

MVP

First search, then post.

TR

This is one that I often use to teach my guys to think about what they are going to say before opening their mouths and speaking something they shouldn't and being unable to fix the mess they caused due to their "speaking before thinking."

“He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.” Unknown

"Shit or get off the pot."

"That boy is so confused he doesn't know wither to shit or go blind!"

"Don't park your car in someone else's garage. "

Part of Your Story
 

Paraphrased from one of my military counselors:

Any hardship you face while you are here, any struggle back home that may distract you from your job, any physical weakness that may prevent you from achieving the objective; look past it. Supplement it with a determination to succeed. And when people ask you how you surmounted all the obstacles in your way, you can make all of these difficulties as a part of your incredible story, rather than just excuses.

Perfection
 

"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." - Unknown

“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.” Author Unknown

This short statement says it all. A team can't stand without character. The entire team concept falls apart without unit integrity firmly in place. It's one of those characteristics that I feel are going by the wayside. Today, more than ever, we need mentors that teach and instill character in the next generation of Warriors.

It is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent that survive. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

Big 'possum clime li'l tree.

J.C. Harris

In Honor of Presidents' Day
 

"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy

Favs...
 

Favorite serious...
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find that it was vanity;
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. -T.E. Lawrence(of Arabia)

Favorite funny
(bill has meningitis)
Rob: "How are you fellin' buddy?"
Bill: "Not so great, but i think i'll live."
Rob: "Thats good to hear, I can't have you dying on me, I need someone to look after things after I go."
Bill: "I'll look after your wife."
Rob: "...wow..."

Turkish Proverb
 

"One who is already wet does not feel the rain."
-Turkish Proverb

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

In today's vernacular, "What is right isn't always popular and what's popular isn't always right".

General Douglas Macarthur
 

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
-General Douglas Macarthur

If I may indulge with a treasured family quote... as a child I discussed the Normandy invasion with my great uncle. Uncle Matt couldn't swim, was terrified of water, and was on two landing craft that were sunk inbound to the beach.

"Son, sometimes you have to teach yourself how to swim. In my case it wasn't pretty, but I'm here and the water ballet critics aren't."--Uncle Matt.

William Tecumseh Sherman
 

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. -- William Tecumseh Sherman

It certainly speaks toward the Warrior mindset. The willingness to not quit when your body wants to.

Sir Alexander Paterson
 

"The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself."
-Sir Alexander Paterson

John Quincy Adams
 

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

-John Quincy Adams

"Keep moving or we will throw dirt on you..."
Birthday wishes from Stephen Parker, PLS.

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” -- Billy Graham

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. (R.A. Heinlein)

kind of reminds me of some people around here

"Reload..."

Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f**k the prom queen.

Sean Connery

"You better stop! Or else! I've been bullied before!"

A certain world leader to a certain world leader.

"I can jump in the middle of you , kill half of ya before you knew what the fuck was going on".......

Welcome speech in the JFK auditorium in I think Jul 82, by Maj Bob Howard just before loading on the cattle cars to go to Mackall for PH I......yeah, made me feel welcome.

I was a new buck SGT from 82d....wondering....WTF did I get myself into???

I found out....

oh what fun.......

Quote
 

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares inevitably wind up plowing for people with Swords"

Me, after about 10 Labatt's Blues....

Your Labatts wisdom is strong in you....I sense:D

Old School
 

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway

confusing guidance
 

"Hurry up before I give you a dollar" - Grandpa

Today, I found out what it was like to be a proctologist. Had to work with assholes all day.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.