Quotes about airborne (16 Quotes)






    You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster What if a riot happens in a major city Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city We've got to talk about this.


    Right now, UPS is sort of the default choice. If someone comes up with the better mousetrap, then suddenly they won't be so satisfied with UPS. If USPS starts acting like an innovative business, then a lot of people would like to work with them. The Airborne thing also makes a lot of sense.

    Honestly, I think it's trying to sell the bells and whistles when they should really be working on how to swing the club, ... It all starts on the (PGA) Tour and with Tiger (Woods). They see the ball spin and trajectory and all that and they want to do it. But in about 90 percent of the cases, what we should really be worried about is getting the ball airborne in the first place.

    Your hopes, dreams aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms if you will only let them.

    I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

    They may end up losing some of the air business, because that's where the major competitors like Federal Express, Airborne, DHL and companies like that are. But when you get into the under-500 mile surface package business, there's almost no competition.


    People often forget that the company has an 18-percent share of the overnight delivery market, ... But the German giant express delivery company DHL wants to have a minority stake, and they could do a lot to Airborne to keep it flying again in terms of market share.


    We deploy this division with great confidence, ... Our armed forces have made great progress in the past 2 12 years in Iraq. The 101st Airborne Division will continue that momentum.

    'Not in vain' may be the pride of those who survived and the epitaph of those who fell. The eight thousand paratroopers of the First British Airborne Division who landed in Arnhem, Holland, behind the German lines and held the area for nine days and nights, with a loss of six thousand. September 1944 Major General R. E. Urquhart, the division commander radioed to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery All will be ordered to break out rather than surrender.

    microprocessor to be used on aircraft, where it can be employed in navigation digital flight control and weapons fire control systems radar data processing and airborne battle management systems. This microprocessor can also perform target identification and discrimination functions in missiles, allowing the missile to home in on and destroy its target.



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