"To observe a Marine, is inspirational. To be a Marine, is exceptional."
~ GySgt Charles F. Wolf, Jr

"Duty, Honor, Country," a striking expression of West Point 's time-honored ideals, is the motto of the U.S. Military Academy and is imbedded in its coat of arms.
     Though not as old as the institution they represent, the USMA coat of arms, also referred to as the seal, and motto have a long and interesting history.
     According to archival records, the coat of arms and motto were adopted in 1898. Col. Charles W. Larned, professor of drawing, headed a committee to design a coat of arms for the Academy and stated several criteria for the design. The committee decided that the design should represent the national character of the Academy, its military function, its educational function and its spirit and objectives.

     "When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it
became optional, and now it's legal.
     I'm getting out before Obama makes it mandatory."
                                                   ?GySgt Harry Berres, USMC

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert

An army is a nation within a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.
Alfred de Vigny

Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
Frank Burns

Conduct…to the prejudice of good order and military discipline.
Anonymous

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.
H. G. Wells

I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
General George Patton Jr

An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass.
George Washington

An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.
This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit.
General George Patton Jr

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
Sun Tzu

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
Duke of Wellington

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
German Proverb

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.
Lao Tzu

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
Sun Tzu

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Attributed to General George Patton Jr

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
Robert Green Ingersoll

"USMC: The spineless need not apply. ~Cpl. Beddoe"

"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. ~Sgt. Stryker"

"I watched Marines die face down in the mud protecting freedom ~Col. Oliver North, 2001"

"In a firefight, if you see two colonels conferring, you have likely fallen back a little too far"

We're all rehearsing for the presidency. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman-army.
Ani Difranco

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
Whitey Ford

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
Blake Clark

Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war.
General George S. Patton

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Charles M. de Talleyrand

An army marches on it's stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte

"If the Army and the Navy ever look on heaven's scenes, they will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines!"

"Remember that diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a bigger rock"

MURPHY'S LESSER KNOWN LAWS

• A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
  
• Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
  
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
  
• He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
  
• If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
  
• If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.
  
• Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
  
• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
  
• Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
  
• The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
  
• The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
  
• Things that come to those who wait are things left by those who got there first.
  
• Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
  
• When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.