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Ruben Blades

"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."

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Akiroq Brost

"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."

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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."

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"If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation."

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"On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor."

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"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"

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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."

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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."

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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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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."

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