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![George S. Patton Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226608647i/370054._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”
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![Clark Zlotchew](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1308588164i/3902588._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
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![George S. Patton Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226608647i/370054._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”
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![Michael Parker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1321799659i/11539._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Gentlemen,’ the professor said gravely. ‘You must stop this madman. If you do not, you are looking at a doomsday scenario of apocalyptic proportions.”
― The Devil's Trinity
― The Devil's Trinity
![Michael Parker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1321799659i/11539._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
― The Devil's Trinity
― The Devil's Trinity
![Michael Parker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1321799659i/11539._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them.”
― The Devil's Trinity
― The Devil's Trinity
![Dale A. Jenkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1676360137i/23157063._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“As night fell, Yamamoto, aboard the huge battleship Yamato, steamed eastward at full speed into the night. Far ahead the destroyers went to flank speed to search for the US carriers. Lookouts, with the best night-vision binoculars in the world, swept the night horizon where the very dark sky meets the black ocean. The faintest shape, the tiniest pinprick of light, would show there was something out there, like the superstructure of a ship over the horizon. There was nothing.”
― Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
― Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
![Dale A. Jenkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1676360137i/23157063._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“The isolationists argued that if the US had stayed out of the Great War - or, as it later became known, World War I - there never would have been a World War II. By 1917 the warring protagonists - Britain, France, Germany, Austria, and others - had suffered millions of casualties and were exhausted. The German populace was starving. The isolationists believed that a resolution was inevitable without the US involvement that resulted in 116,000 dead fathers, brothers and sons. They argued that if the United States had stayed out of the Great War, no one would ever have heard of Adolf Hitler.”
― Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
― Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
![Neal Stephenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1430920344i/545._UY200_CR14,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy.
They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back?
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. Clearly, 5 miles per hour was nothing more than the average speed. The current would be faster in the middle of the river and slower at the banks. More complicated variations could be expected at bends in the river. Basically it was a question of hydrodynamics, which could be tackled using certain well-known systems of differential equations. Lawrence dove into the problem, rapidly (or so he thought) covering both sides of ten sheets of paper with calculations. Along the way, he realized that one of his assumptions, in combination with the simplified Navier Stokes equations, had led him into an exploration of a particularly interesting family of partial differential equations. Before he knew it, he had proved a new theorem. If that didn't prove his intelligence, what would?
Then the time bell rang and the papers were collected. Lawrence managed to hang onto his scratch paper. He took it back to his dorm, typed it up, and mailed it to one of the more approachable math professors at Princeton, who promptly arranged for it to be published in a Parisian mathematics journal.
Lawrence received two free, freshly printed copies of the journal a few months later, in San Diego, California, during mail call on board a large ship called the U.S.S. Nevada. The ship had a band, and the Navy had given Lawrence the job of playing the glockenspiel in it, because their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else.”
― Cryptonomicon
They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back?
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. Clearly, 5 miles per hour was nothing more than the average speed. The current would be faster in the middle of the river and slower at the banks. More complicated variations could be expected at bends in the river. Basically it was a question of hydrodynamics, which could be tackled using certain well-known systems of differential equations. Lawrence dove into the problem, rapidly (or so he thought) covering both sides of ten sheets of paper with calculations. Along the way, he realized that one of his assumptions, in combination with the simplified Navier Stokes equations, had led him into an exploration of a particularly interesting family of partial differential equations. Before he knew it, he had proved a new theorem. If that didn't prove his intelligence, what would?
Then the time bell rang and the papers were collected. Lawrence managed to hang onto his scratch paper. He took it back to his dorm, typed it up, and mailed it to one of the more approachable math professors at Princeton, who promptly arranged for it to be published in a Parisian mathematics journal.
Lawrence received two free, freshly printed copies of the journal a few months later, in San Diego, California, during mail call on board a large ship called the U.S.S. Nevada. The ship had a band, and the Navy had given Lawrence the job of playing the glockenspiel in it, because their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else.”
― Cryptonomicon
![Dale A. Jenkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1676360137i/23157063._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Yamamoto sensed a feeling of culmination about the huge success of the first strike, and the same incisive intuition that guided his brilliant moves at the gaming tables told him what the next move on the bridge of Akagi would be. In (Vice Admiral) Nagumo he knew his man. Nagumo had never been committed to the Pearl Harbor mission. He had not been Yamamoto’s choice to command the Striking Force; his assignment was the decision of the Navy Ministry in Tokyo, based on seniority. While the exultation of the officers and sailors on his staff swirled around him, Yamamoto sat quietly. Finally, he fixed a steely gaze on his chief of staff, and in a low, intense voice: “Admiral Nagumo is going to withdraw.”
― Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
― Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
![John F. Kennedy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1498639086i/3047._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.”
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![Richard Marcinko](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1382903381i/26111._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.”
― Rogue Warrior
― Rogue Warrior
![Sarah Palin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1609785465i/2040815._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.”
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![Clark Zlotchew](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1308588164i/3902588._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”
― Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
― Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
“I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn't about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.”
― The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn!
― The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn!
![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground. The men of WWII were the greatest generation, perhaps Korea the forgotten, Vietnam the trampled, Cold War unsung and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan vets underestimated. Every generation has proved itself to be worthy to stand up to the precedent of the greatest generation. Going back to the Revolution American soldiers have been the best in the world. Let’s all take a remembrance for all veterans who served or are serving, peace time or wartime and gone or still with us. 11/11/16 May God Bless America and All Veterans.”
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“Συνειδητοποιεί πως η μάχη είναι χαμένη, όλα έχουν τελειώσει. Κατεβάζει τα κιάλια και κλείνει τα μάτια του περιμένοντας το αναπόφευκτο. Εκείνες τις λίγες στιγμές που του απομένουν φέρνει στο μυαλό του την εικόνα της Yesim, των κορών του και του
αγέννητου γιου του για να ηρεμήσει. Αντ’ αυτού, μια πελώρια θλίψη τον πλημμυρίζει. Πονάει σαν να τους χάνει εκείνος, σαν να χάνονται όλοι τους από τη ζωή με μιας.
Όμως, η δική του ζωή είναι που θα χαθεί.”
― Αιγαίο ώρα μηδέν: Το πρώτο αίμα
αγέννητου γιου του για να ηρεμήσει. Αντ’ αυτού, μια πελώρια θλίψη τον πλημμυρίζει. Πονάει σαν να τους χάνει εκείνος, σαν να χάνονται όλοι τους από τη ζωή με μιας.
Όμως, η δική του ζωή είναι που θα χαθεί.”
― Αιγαίο ώρα μηδέν: Το πρώτο αίμα
“What a job. Waiting to kill or be killed on almost a daily basis. No way you didn’t take that home with you for long-term problems. You just couldn't kill time and time again, especially when you could see their faces and their death rattle and not be affected and screwed up a little, the rest of your life.”
― Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck
― Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck
![Elin Hilderbrand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1365687944i/88301._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The most important thing is that you go to bed each night believing you raised a hero.”
― Summer of '69
― Summer of '69
“Let’s all be citizens that the Forces are ‘Proud To Protect”
― The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
― The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
![Frank A. Wood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1724880954i/50258987._CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“If history is like the falling tree in the forest? If nobody remembers, did it still happen?”
― Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972 Vietnam Memoirs of a FTGSN
― Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972 Vietnam Memoirs of a FTGSN
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