"Cast or Tab" - Maj. Joe Martin

Support your Troops: ENLIST!

By Me


This came from a discussion me and my wife had about people saying the way to support the troops is to bring them home...I say yeah. on a more frequent basis...that takes more man power...

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

- Rocky Balboa

Hey people, there are 17 pages of quotes. We are repeating some of them, yes they are good. But some new material?

"There are people who make things happen,
there are people who watch things happen and
there are people who wonder what happened.
To be sucessful, you need to be a person who makes things
happen." James Lovell Asronaut
(quote at end of movie 'Astronaut Farmer')

abrummy,

Yes...what a book...

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
--Brendan Gill

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
--Adolf Hitler
I guess that makes him wrong.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
--Gore Vidal

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Willpower lasts about two weeks and is soluble in alcohol

We’re the guys that get angry, count to ten, calmly ask what kind of car you drive and if it’s parked outside, and then usually get whatever we want.
--EOD

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose
--Theodore Roosevelt, after being shot in the chest
Full story of badassery

And now, since this is the buffoonery forum, a list of funny things i've caught a friend of mine, we'll call him SrA D, saying when he wasn't thinking too hard.

I like painting kids.

oh my god BULLETED FORMAT!

"Gah gah" means "no."

No, they mance the dark.
--This said after creating a "darkomancer" to put in a video game

Okay, fine, I won't stab you with this.

Well sometimes you have to balance yourself with a good hump.

Don't even say that. All boobs are canon.

From now on I am only going to talk in senten...

Flying cars exist and puppies are reviled.
--Speculation on the future

Why don't we just wear BDUs made out of Swastikas? New goal when I become president.

I'll never have sex without consent again.
--Said IMMEDIATELY after leaving a SARC briefing.

And I don't even wanna get started on how much more it is than three.

you can't fix stupid

“We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life.”
-Richard Marcinko, USN

"His Tortured mind, wondering if they call the memories of past, triumphs.
Or a way of foreboding of disasters yet to come.
Or whether the deserts hot breath has melted his reason into madness.
He cannot cool the burning kiss of thirst upon his lips.
Nor shade the scorching fury of the Sun.
All about, is desolation.
He can neither bless nor curse the power that moves him.
For he does not know from where it comes.
Learning that it can be more terrible to live than to die,
he is driven onward through the burning crucible of desert,
where holy men and prophets are cleansed and purged,
for Gods great purpose.
Until at last, at the end of human strength, beaten into the dust from which he came,
The metal is ready for the makers hand."
-The Ten Commandments (1956) Cecil DeMille

"call AADD, you're too fat to drive"

"Your best? Losers always whine about doing their best. Winners go home and **** the prom queen." - Sean connery

"I refuse to tip-toe through life to arrive safely at death."

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." - William Feather

We have many traditions, some good some bad. however, I would't be here today if it weren't for our greatest tradition of all, Honor.. Men of Honor


...and when it's hard, and it will, don't quit on me; EVER!
Men of Honor

shut the door i got weed in here cowboy! Legendary Ricky Bobby

"No one is completely useless — They can always serve as a bad example."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." PLATO

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” MARK TWAIN

"If you slow that bullet down to about 55 miles per hour, put some headlights on it and blow the horn, that deer will actually jump in front of it!"

"Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause."

"Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle." AYN RAND

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

“It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office.” HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN

"For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail."

Dang, I remembered something from grade school history class.
Benjamin Franklin put this in Poor Richards Almanack. It's origin back much farther, 1390?

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

-Calvin Coolidge

"Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever"

- Shane Falco (The Replacements)

The Falco quote was first posted in 2004, then 2008, and again here in 2010...personally, I never saw the movie...

http://www.specialtactics.com/ubbthreads....html#Post45428

http://www.specialtactics.com/ubbthreads....html#Post16079

I kept telling myself to do a quick search before I posted a duplicate, lesson learned.

How about this quote, "Would I rather be feared or loved? Um... Easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me" - Michael Scott (The Office)

I did a search, probably not correctly, but I did not see the above quote on the first couple pages of results. (I kept getting hits for "would" and "or")

By the way, The Replacements is a decent movie and I would suggest having a look if you ever have 2hrs you wouldn't miss.

No one can know the potential,
Of a life that is committed to win;
With courage - the challenge it faces,
To achieve great success in the end! So, explore the Dimension of Greatness,
And believe that the world CAN be won;
By a mind that is fully committed,
KNOWING the task can be done! Your world has no place for the skeptic,
No room for the DOUBTER to stand;
To weaken your firm resolution
That you CAN EXCEL in this land! We must have VISION TO SEE our potential,
And FAITH TO BELIEVE that we can;
Then COURAGE TO ACT with conviction,
To become what GOD MEANT us to be So, possess the strength and the courage,
To conquer WHATEVER you choose;
It's the person WHO NEVER GETS STARTED,
That is destined FOREVER to lose! ~ Author Unknown ~

this is quote my dad told me, I was leaving for the military and He gave me this advice about my carreer and Basic.

"Dont be "That Guy" noone likes "That Guy" When things get hard and it sucks Just embrace the Suck"

Also he told me he used to brief all the guys at AST this when he was the superintendant. He Said

" If you guys are out at a 5k or run around here and you see a pretty blond girl, You better not hit on her, Thats probably my daughter so STAY AWAY." lol now she is dating an Army Officer.haha
Not really you motivational quotes but the first one I always here loud in my ear when things suck and I'm about to complain I here my dad say that and I like "if i complain than i will be that Guy" the second on just make me laugh thinking of all they guys who heard that and signed up for all the 5K's thinking that was a challange.

Not really a quote but I do like it. On my way over to the PI in the early 80's the best advice my dad gave me "Don't bring nothing home you can't cure with a shot" Words to live by!

lifes a bit@h but shes totally doable

Shack, dude that is halarious!

"There's two kinds of people in this world when you boil it all down. You got your talkers and you got your doers. Most people are just talkers. All they got is talk. But when all is said and done, it's the doers who change this world. And when they do that, they change us. And that's why we never forget them. So which one are you? Do you just talk about it? Or do you stand up and do something about it? Because believe you me, all the rest of it is just coffee house bulls#*t." -Rocco, Boondock Saints 2

-I know that limp. I know the empty ring finger and that obsessive nature of yours. that's a big secret. you don't risk jail and your career to save some body that
doesn't want to be saved unless you got something, anything, one thing. the reason normal people got wifes and kids and hobbies. what ever. thats because they aint got that one thing that hits them that hard and that true. I got music you got this the thing you think about all the time. the thing that keeps you south and
normal. yeah makes us great; makes us the best. all we miss out on is everything else. no women waitin at home after work with the drink and the kiss, that ain't gonna happen for us.
-that's why god made microwaves
-yeah. when it's over it's over
-yeah

A patient from HOUSE. and one line from House

Hard work will always beat talent when talent refuses to work hard---Lloyd Irvin

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
-Muhammad Ali

each and everyday we face new challenges, and new fears. Pushing forward is the only way to over come theses obstacles. Backing down or quitting will not allow you to become stronger, and quitting will make each day and challenge harder than the one before. Heart Over Mind -Lance Liggett by me

...It is God who arms me with strength
and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer;
he enables me to stand on the heights.He trains my hands for battle;
my arms can bend a bow of bronze.You give me your shield of victory,
and your right hand sustains me;
you stoop down to make me great.You broaden the path beneath me,
so that my ankles do not turn.-Holy Bible

I train to pain. I wont stop till I drop. Giving up is not a option for reaching the top. Every goal ends in success, every dream starts with the scheme. I love working out; call me a fitness fein.
- Lance Liggett By me


live like no one else, so you can live like no one else. Think about it -Dave Ramsey

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . .- cant remember

my heart`s beating harder, thrill seeking faster & climbin life goals like a ladder. Workin hard til the end of time & always keep thinkin"Heart Over Mind" -Lance Liggett By me

"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I have no fear because I am the meanest motherf****r in the whole valley." -George S. Patton

'the darkest hour is just before the dawn' -Thomas Fuller


Probably my all-time favorite.

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." Herman Melville

"Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased." C.S. Lewis

"You're pretty quick for an old guy."
"That's how I got to be an old guy." From Die Trying by Lee Child

Marcus Aurelius has always managed to provide with much much inspiration:



"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"

"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."

As did Patton:

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

"To be real takes tremendous courage."
-Dave Ramsey

1. "A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it." "?"

2. My Love, Rest strong and you will do well in life. I love you and the children deeply. Today and tomarrow let each day grow and grow.Keep smiling never give up, even when things get you down. So in closing my love, tonight, tuck my children in bed warmly, tell them I love them; then huge them and give them a kiss goodnight for daddy. "blackhawk down closing"

Hits me ine right place eveytime.

Tiny-

Cause sometimes you feel tired,

feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up.

But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength
...
and just pull that out of you and get that motivation to not give up

and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse. Unknown

When I become pararescue this is the quote I will live by:

John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."

some quotes i have used in my life:

-"Giving anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift"-Steve Prefontaine
-"Greatness comes with doing what is unexpected of you"-me
-"Quitters never win, Winners never quit"
-"Take short cuts, get cut short"-My bro
-"Greatness isn't great unless your humble"-me
-"I don't have to be careful i got a gun"-Homer Simpson
-"Mind over matter, if you don't mind it don't matter"- my dad

"Every survival kit should include a sense of humor." Unknown

This is from Eminem's song "Till I Collapse"

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all" Vince Lombardi

“Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man.”

Jack Handy

"Sir, have you ever killed anyone?"

"I Never killed anyone who didn't deserve it."

My buddy back in HS talking to my father.

It's a line from True Grit.

Ahh that makes sense Yukon, he is a John Wayne fan. I'm assuming that came from The Duke in the original? Seen the new one not the first though...

Hold my beer this is going to be cool

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

Kill anybody today, Curly? Billy Christal
Day aint over yet. Jack Palance
City Slickers

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams

A couple great quotes from one of my favorite books, Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire. I've read this book several times and am equally as critical each time, what an awesome read. Quotes speak to war, the heart of a warrior and I can see the last one being directly tied into the mission of Pararescue, That Others May Live.

“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War and preparation for war call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradication in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are values superior to andreia, to manly valor.”

"Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: TO PERFORM THE COMMONPLACE UNDER FAR-FROM-COMMONPLACE CONDITIONS."

"For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to EXTINGUISH THE SELFISH SELF WITHIN, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too."

Sorry for the double post but found this quote by former Delta commander Dalton Fury quite intriguing.

“...if you asked what tool of the trade would be the very last thing they would leave behind, you might be surprised at the answer. You would likely hear that it is not a tool that makes one nervous when it isn't there, but rather a capability that is not organic to a troop of Delta operators or Navy SEALs. Just because you are the best of the best does not mean you are the best at everything. Any Delta operator can vouch for the capabilities of the Air Force Combat Controllers, and very rarely goes on a "hit" without the men who wear the scarlet berets. Arguably they are the best-rounded and uniquely trained operators on the planet. The initial training "pipeline" for an Air Force Special Tactics Squadron Combat Controller costs twice as much time and sweat as does the journey to become a Navy SEAL or Delta operator. Before their training is complete someone brainwashes these guys into thinking they can climb like Spiderman, swim like Tarzan, and fly like Superman --- and then they have to prove they can do so if they plan to graduate. And that is just to get to a place where they can do the job for which they are really trained, calling in those deadly air strikes. The life of a combat controller is split between working with Delta and SEALs, with a little moonlighting with the 75th Ranger Regiment now and again. They carry the motto that would be hard to look another operator in the face and say if it weren't true -- 'First There.'”

Dalton Fury, Delta Force Ground Commander
"Bomb Like There Is No Tomorrow" Kill Bin Laden

( In my double check search of keyword "Dalton Fury" after composing this post I came across an old posting in which this quote was also used but in a separate category all together, so I am aware now it has been posted but I had to bring back up this great reminder of the respect given to CCT quiet professionals by fellow SOF )