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The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.
- Wayne Allard

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
- Charles Foster Bass

Jesus' military career has never compelled my belief.
- Wendell Berry

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
- Linda Chavez

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
- Linda Chavez

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
- Tom Clancy

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
- John Conyers

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
- Peter Defazio

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.
- Peter Defazio

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
- Peter Defazio

I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?"
The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War."
None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated.
Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck."
Ah. Now I remembered.
- James Patterson

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
- Bruce Jackson

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.
- Leon Panetta

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.
- Jose A Rodriguez Jr

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
- Warren Rudman

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
- John Spratt

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
- Bruce Sterling

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.
- John Stockwell

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
- Mark Thomas

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.
- Wietse Venema

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
- Zack Wamp

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