I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.
Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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