I pray every day that all our military forces are safe and come home soon. I thought these quotes were powerful and some are also amusing.
- 'If the enemy is in range, so are you.' - Infantry Journal
- 'It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.' - U.S. Air Force Manual
- 'Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.' - General MacArthur
- 'You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me.' - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.
- 'Tracers work both ways.' - U.S. Army Ordnance
- 'Five second fuses only last three seconds.' - Infantry Journal
- 'Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.'
- 'Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.' - Unknown Marine Recruit
- 'If you see a bomb technician running, keep up with him.' - USAF Ammo Troop
- 'Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death , I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing.'
- 'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.' - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)
- 'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
- 'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'
- 'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
- 'Even with ammunition, the USAF is just another expensive flying club.'
- 'What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies.'
- 'Never trade luck for skill.'
- The three most common expressions (or famous last words), in aviation are: 'Why is it doing that?' 'Where are we?' And 'Oh Shit!'
- 'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'
- 'Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!'
- 'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'
- 'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.' - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
- 'There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peace time.' -Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
- 'If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.'
- You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal.'
- As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives; the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks, 'What happened?' The pilot's reply: 'I don't know, I just got here myself!' - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)
- 'The highways of life are full of flat squirrels who couldn't make up their minds.'
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