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"I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
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"The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers."
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"I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support."
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"The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever."
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"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it."
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"Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996."
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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
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"A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand."
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"The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June."
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"If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro."
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"We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts."
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"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
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"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."
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"The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit."
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"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
Opportunity
"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
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"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."
Nature
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
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