Any old Army guys, read this!!! LOL

My grand son got out of the Army just this last month. He has been home for a while. He is visiting before he starts his new job. Here is part of a speech someone gave at West Point while he was there. I found it funny.

"Okay, here goes. Always remember, there are three ways to do things. There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way. Do us all a favor. Try the Army way every once in a while. If nothing else, you can confuse your captain.

Here's another important thing to remember – Never share a foxhole with anybody braver than you are.

If everything is going perfectly, it's probably an ambush.

If at first you don't succeed, call in air support.

Here's a good one – never forget that your weapon was produced by the lowest bidder!

And finally, never forget the Law of War – Murphy's Law. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong, and always remember that Murphy was an optimist."

I thought back to times in the service all of these where true. I had a good laugh thinking of them.

So how about you guys??? Anything you want to share with us that would fit any of the above.

While I wasn't in the Army, but the Navy, , we had a few choice sayings like that. Things don't change much in the military- most of the time it was hurry up and wait. Only big change is that you might have to watch your mouth around all of the ladies.....otherwise, they might embarrass you...

Tracer rounds work both ways!!!!
I was in the army, if it moves salute it, if it don"t move, paint it.
The salute kind of went by the wayside in Nam.
Led

If you don"t know what it does, don"t f*** with it.

I think a new lesson would be don't try to barrycade veterans out of a memorioal they fought and died for. They WILL improvise, adapt, and overcome!

WISDOM - FROM THE MILITARY MANUAL

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"If the enemy is in range, so are you."

- Infantry Journal

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"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."

- U.S. Air Force Manual

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"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword
obviously never encountered automatic weapons."

- General MacArthur

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"You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me."

- U.S. Marine corps Gunnery Sgt.

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"Tracers work both ways."

- U.S. Army 0rdnance

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"Five second fuses only last three seconds."

- Infantry Journal

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"Any ship can be a minesweeper.. Once."

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"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do."

- Unknown Marine Recruit

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"If you see a bomb technician running, keep up with him."

- USAF Ammo Troop

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"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death , I Shall Fear No Evil.
For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing."

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"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."

- Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)

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"The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."

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"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."

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"When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."

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"Even with ammunition, the USAF is just another expensive flying club."

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"What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies."

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"Never trade luck for skill."

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"Airspeed, altitude and brains.

Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight."

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"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation;

We never left one up there!"

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"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your flight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."

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"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)

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"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."

Sign over squadron 0ps desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970

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"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."

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"You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal."

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As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives; the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks,

"What happened?"

The pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!" 20

- Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)

Viet Nam 1965-66. Big red 1, 18th inf. A whole different relationship with officers over there. They did not wanted to be known as an officer. People would ask how I survived. They told us to DIG IN. I was still throwing sand when I left. HA HA. To bad we were treated so bad by the draft dodgers when we came back.

Heard at Navy firefighting course: at sea you don't call the fire department, you are the fire department!

At Yeoman school: you work next to the co's office if you screw up you better get the Vaseline.

When I was at Ft Belvoir Va above one the engineer class rooms was a sign Nothing is impossible, but the impossible but the impossible may take a little longer. For some reason that has been stuck in my mind after all these years. SSG 57th Engineers Heavy Equitment

Guys, My Uncle was a Navy Flight In-structure, in
WW II, he owned a plane and flew up till a few yrs before he died. He always told us kids, when asked How come He didn't have a Parachute? He quoted.. What his Navy flight manual said about a Parachute: Not Required, But! a Damm good Idea!!
Later,
John A.

From personal experience: A plan is good until first contact! As other commented, TRACERS DO WORK BOTH wAYS:

"This is the US Army, simple problems require complex solutions! 'Simple solutions WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!" Ain't that the truth.

US ARMY, Armor: 73-96.

Rick

From a Marine Corps Captain:

"Those hard things inside of clouds are called mountains".

Air force saying: what goes up must come down.

Navy submarine saying: What goes down does not necessarily have to come up.

KEH

Battle plans go out the window as soon as the first shot is fired. Ellis, 4th A.D.

Never fire Wilson Pickett into the wind. Ellis

One of the things I learned as a submariner, was IF we did things right, and didn't screw up, what went down would come up.....

Seen on the wall of a Tank Recovery Crews shop at Fort Lenard Wood Mo. " TANKS DONT GO WHERE CATAILS GROW"

Some times its entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer!!!

US. Army 2005-2009
!st ID 4th light infantry brigade combat team
1-4 Cav !!!!

A popular saying on my ship was "A thousand 'atta-boys' can be wiped out with one 'Oh #$%@"