Combat Quotes - Page 25

• Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

  Adolph Malan

  Fire, Sight, Aviation

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• Whilst shooting think of nothing else; brace the whole of the body; have both hands on the stick; concentrate on your ring sight.

  Adolph Malan

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!

  Adolph Malan

  Aviation, Fingers

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• Height gives you the initiative.

  Adolph Malan

  Giving, Height, Aviation

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• Always turn and face the attack.

  Adolph Malan

  Faces, Aviation, Turns

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• Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

  Adolph Malan

  Decision, Tactics, Aviation

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• Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.

  Adolph Malan

  Levels, Aviation, Areas

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• When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

  Adolph Malan

  Diving, Aviation, Proportion

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• Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein - and the people of Iraq are free.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Iraq, Australia

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Fall, Humanity, Climate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Moving, Fall

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• Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Body, Shapes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We now have only 31 brigade combat teams or 490,000 troops. And only one-third of combat teams are considered combat-ready. That's not good for our country. I actually don't even like saying it because plenty of countries are watching us right now, but we'll get it shaped up very quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Team, Troops

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Boredom, Age, Quality

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• I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.

  Horst Faas

  Confused, War, Mistake

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• ... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years and years. It was a shield... I think that the photographer in combat has a greater protection than the soldier who has a rifle in his hand. That camera has unbelievable protective power.

  Carl Mydans

  War, Thinking, Hands

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• What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

  Akhenaton

  Sadness, Mind, Fields

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• It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.

  David Adam Smith

  Military, Moving, Isis

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• Takes more than combat gear to make a man
  Takes more than a license for a gun
  Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
  A gentleman will walk but never run

  Sting

  Running, Gun, Men

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

  Thomas Campbell

  Bravery, Munich, Chivalry

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.161

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• A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.

  Michael Gerber

  Art, Believe, Practice

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• American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.

  James Carroll

  War, Hero, Air

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• I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different

  Dave Abrams

  Running, War, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a combat zone not to pay attention to it. At least that's how it struck me; others may have had an entirely different war experience.

  Dave Abrams

  War, Play, Healthy

  Source: therumpus.net

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