101 Quotes About Navy

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

The military is not so much a job, it is more of a death sentence.

It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around.

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

Those of us who have never been in the military don’t understand what it is like to serve in the military.

The only detail I knew about my dad’s experience in World War II was that he liked when they served chicken-fried steak.I was probably 13 when he told that story, and with the unblinking sanctimony that only a teenager can wield, I remember saying, “Wasn’t that really unhealthy?” In a look that I can only describe as for-a-smart-kid-you’re-remarkably-stupid, my father replied, “We were in planes carrying bombs, and enemy planes were shooting at us. Fried food was not a problem.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

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.