I read a great one last night in a book called “Warrior Spirit”. It is an autobiography of a Navy Seal.
He described a bar after a training excercise. It was a joint excercise and the place was filled with Seals, Green Berets and Marines. They were all drunk and fairly pissed off at each other. The confrontation started to brew.
“A master chief jumped up on the bar and hushed everyone and asked who is the badest motherfucker in this place. A giant Green Beret strode up maybe 6’5” and an all muscle 250ibs. He said he was. The master chief said Good, you take over then because I have to go take a piss"
My father (who lost his arm in a trucking accident) and I were in a bar in Florida. I was about 13. Anyway, a guy started slapping his wife around. My dad, not a shy person, told him to stop. The guy saw my dad had one arm and said, “What can you do?” My dad stood up, headed for the guy and said, “I’ll show you what I can do!”
Those old D-Day vets! Once you’ve seen Hell, nothing scares you.
EOS: The bartender came around my dad and clobbered the guy with a billie.
Roy Boehm, the founder of the Navy SEALS used to live next door to Chesty Puller, the retired Marine legend. Chesty would always have Roy come give him a lift home after he’d had too much to drink. One night, 3 Marines took exception to the fact that a swabbie was sitting in their spot, and poured a beer over Roys’ head. After wiping their butts all over the bar, Roy turned to Chesty and said “General, if it’s all the same to you, I’ll just wait outside.” And Chesty raised his glass to him.
Another from Roy when introduced to JFK. “Sir, I didn’t vote for you. But I’d die for you.”
George S. Patton jr. “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other guy die for his country.”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“I once met three guys named pain, suffering, and sacrifice. Now, we’re inseparable. We’re best friends.”
“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy.”
“I can’t judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”
And My Personal Favorite…
“Believe me, if I started murdering people? there’d be none of you left!”