Amusing Military Quotes

Biggles · 06-30-09, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TarJak

Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.

Yossarian - Catch 22

You got it, that's Catch-22!

One of my favourite books, funny as hell.

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive."

"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead." (how very true).

"Yossarian's heart sank. Something was terribly wrong if everything was all right and they had no excuse for turning back."
(When nothing is wrong with the plane, there is no reason turning back, which is ofcourse terribly wrong...)

"There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate. Few people died unnecessarily"

"What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for."

My all time favourite quote from the book:

"Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action." :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Also here is a thing I read many years ago.

You probably knew that there were an italian division fighting alongside the germans at Stalingrad. Well the russians did their great push to surround the city and in the process went through the italian/romanian troops at the fontline. An italian reporter then asked one high ranked officer in the italian army:

-Are we taking high casualties?
-None at all, they're all running.