"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."

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"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."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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

John Walker Lindh, American Criminal

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"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."

Ralph Regula, American Politician

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"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."

Will Adams, English Explorer

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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"

Frank Chodorov, American Writer

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"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."

Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier

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"Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries."

Geoff Hoon, British Politician

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"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."

Alphonse Allais, French Writer

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

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."

Jack Schwartz, American Scientist

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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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"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."

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"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."

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"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."

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"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."

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"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."

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"Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack."

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"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."

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

"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."

"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."

"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"

"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."

"Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries."

"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."

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

"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."

Explore more quotes by Jack Adams

"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."

"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."

"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."

"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."

"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."

"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."

"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."

"I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago."

"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."

"Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack."