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"Polished Shoes Save Lives" -- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. --Art Buchwald
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. --Thomas More
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
--George William Curtis
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. --Mary Beth Danielson
"The last to know and the first to be blamed" - Communications Division
"YOU CAN TALK ABOUT US, BUT YOU CAN'T TALK WITHOUT US!"
- Signal Corps
"Truck it, or f*ck it." or : "Nothing moves till we do" - Transport units
While I was stationed in Misawa, Japan, a friend of mine made an unofficial unit patch for fun. In the background was a surface ship, a submarine, a spark and quill (our rate insignia), and in the foreground was a picture of a blue devil with snow and ice hanging from his horns and pitchfork. The motto around the outside of the image was -
"NSGA Misawa - We've been to Hell... and it snows there too!"
Naval Security Group Activity, Misawa
(Thanks to Mr. Fite)
"We won't fight & you can't make us!"
USASASAD III
(US Army Security Agency Special Activities Detachment 3).
In the early 70's, I was with a small intelligence unit in PyongTaek South Korea.
The Vietnam War was still going on & most of the guys had enlisted in the
Army Security Agency specifically to avoid this SE Asian garden spot.
Although the official motto of the unit was "Vigilus Salutus" (Always Vigilant),
we adopted out own.
We also threatened to have unit patches made that had "I surrender" in several dozen foreign
languages AND braille.
(Thanks to Mr. Robinson)
"The best care anywhere" 4077 MASH (TV show)
"Nothing happens until something moves" US Army Transportation Center.
"Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential SIR!" --MARINES
MARINE = My Ass Really Is Navy Equipment
"Uncle Sam's Misguided Children"
or
"Uncle Sam's migrating Chimpanzees"
- USMC
"DEATH FROM A BOOGIE BOARD" ROTC Surfrider Battalion, UC Santa Barbara
"U Soldiers Aren't Ready for the Marines Yet."
"Uncle Sam Aint Released Me Yet"
U.S. ARMY
and then Spelled backwards
"Yes My Retarded Ass Signed Up."
ARMY = Aint really marines yet
"Never Again Volunteer Yourself" NAVY
"You have to go out out. You don't have to come back."
"Support Search and Rescue, get lost"
"We who have done so much with so little for so long can now do anything with nothing."
"USCG, Uncle Sam's Confused Group"
"Under Staffed, Can't Go"
- US Coast Guard (USCG)
"When you have a Target that has to be Suppressed, Neutralized or Destroyed - Right Now!"
"You Yell, We Shell"
Unofficial Motto - Fire Support Element, 40th ID (M)
"Peace is Our Profession"
"Mass Murder is Just a Hobby"
Several different units......
"We deliver to your door" Written on front of an IDF transport truck
"Sighted sub, glub, glub!"
US Navy Armed Guard
(Navy gunners on WW2 merchant ships)
"You can't fly without supply"
USAF Supply troops
"Drive like Hell"
1067th Transportation Company PA Army National Guard
"You didn't see me, I wasn't there, and I'm not here now!"
U.S. Navy Communication Technicians (spooks)
"What are they gonna do? Send us home?"
6th Communication Battalion
"If it doesn't work, paint it" Merchant Naval Engineers
"Ubique!"
Normally means :"Everywhere"
but some have insisted that it means:
"All over the bloody place!"
"Without POL, pilots are pedestrians."
"Nobody goes until we pass them the hose."
"Without us, the world's just a static display."
USAF POL (Fuels), Air Force Fuel troops are known as POLCATs.
Nicknames: "Gas Passers" and Painting , Odd jobs and Landscaping (POL)
IYAAYAS! Translated: "If you ain't AMMO, you ain't sh*t!"
"We live so others may die"
USAF Munitions, Air Force Munitions troops are known as AMMO.
"Without Weapons, It's just another airline."
USAF Weapons, Air Force Weapons troops are known as Load Toads.
"We may not be the 'Pride of the Air Force,' but without us; the Pride don't Ride!"
"No Excuses! No Second Chances! If being a Vehicle Operator was fun, everyone would want to be one!"
"You're not 'Miss Daisy;' so don't call me 'driver.'"
"They have taught monkey's to fly, but they never taught them to drive!"
"Nothing happens until something moves!"
USAF Supply - "WITH LOVE FROM A RUBBER GLOVE"
314 MEDICAL GROUP LITTLE ROCK AFB AR
"You can talk about us, but you can't talk without us!"
If you are going through hell, keep going. --Winston Churchill
"To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan…"
?Abraham Lincoln 1865 (Motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs)
"I'm a Vietnam era veteran, not a Vietnam veteran." ?Jim Strickland
"I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug."
?Ellen Tauscher
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and
philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural
history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their
children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
--John Adams
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man,
woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud.
I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth.
I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
--Charles Sumner
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those
who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the
wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
--William Tecumseh
Lieutenant General "Chesty" Puller said it best:
"You guys are the Marine's doctors - There's none better in the business than a Navy Corpsman ..."
The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
The love of a staunch true man,
The love of a baby, unafraid,
Have existed since time began.
But the greatest of loves, The quintessence of loves,
even greater than that of a mother,
Is the tender, passionate, infinite love,
of one drunken Marine for another.
General Louis H. Wilson, USMC (CMC)
Toast given at 203rd Marine Corps Birthday Ball
Camp Lejeune, N.C. 1978
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