While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.
Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy's will are not allowed that luxury.
I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.
What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.
No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.
What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I'm sure.
Be the hunter, not the hunted.
It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.
The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.
Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.
You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway.
I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn't long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.
Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.
Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.
There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.
