The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
My father was in the army, and there wasn’t too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.
I didn’t even graduate from high school. I’ve never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.
I’ve been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led – working class, migratory – suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota – it was a dynamic environment.
My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army.
Lots of army officers… a large number still believe that I have done my best for this country. They respect me.
My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs… it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army as a captain.
Few remember that the battle of Rorke’s Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
Still, I love a campaign. I’m never happier than when I’m fighting shoulder to shoulder with our growing army of foot soldiers.
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
If I feel strongly about something, I don’t bother what will people say, especially when it is about the country and the Army. But my cricketer friends are all politically correct when they tweet.
My father was an army champion boxer… in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.
I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
While we are originally from Mangalore, my grandfather had migrated to Burma from where he returned to join the Indian National Army and settled in Mumbai, where I was born and brought up.
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn’t know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.
Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
Actors are like Swiss Army knives – we’re ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that’s the only thing they can imagine.
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines – not to send more troops to Iraq – but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
In 1993, I joined the Croatian army. I was a radio telegraphist.
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army’s point of view.
We need a defense budget that’s big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren’t any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
Now, admittedly, my power of concentration is and always has been extraordinary since my army training! In fact, other people say it is legendary and almost cosmic!
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island – a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
I grew up poor, but I didn’t really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.
A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home.
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.
There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.
When young people are powerful, our Party and People’s Army are powerful, and there is nothing for us to be afraid of.
It’s not getting any better, is it? I don’t want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
When I was in the army in the Golani troops, I served with Zionist and modern Orthodox guys and I became friends with them.
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.
Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.
The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person – I felt proud.
I’m convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
