239 Years

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Happy 239th Birthday to the finest Soldiers in the World- the Soldiers of the United States Army. June 14th 1775 to today- it has been a long hard haul. Hooah
 
Happy 239th Birthday to the finest Soldiers in the World- the Soldiers of the United States Army. June 14th 1775 to today- it has been a long hard haul. Hooah

Happy Birthday Army! Googled some good Army quotes and instructions from over the years

• Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from an encampment.
- US Army Field Regulations, 1861

• A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
- the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.

AIM towards the Enemy.
- Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher

• A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
- Gen George S. Patton

• Don't look conspicuous; it draws fire.

• Don't never volunteer for nothing.
- a Soldier's Mother

• Five-second fuses only last three seconds.
- Infantry Journal

• If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green, baggy skin.

• If the enemy is in range, so are you.
- Infantry Journal

• If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.

• Incoming fire has the right of way.

• Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.

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

• Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map.

• No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
- Joe Gay

• Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.

• The easy way is always mined.

• The purpose of war is not to die for your country. The purpose of war is to ensure that the other guy dies for his country.
- General Patton

• Tracers work both ways.
- US Army Ordnance

• Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
- Infantry Journal

• We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.

• When you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in combat.
 
Some good stuff there. Just imagine what the Army will learn in the next 239 years.
 
Some good stuff there. Just imagine what the Army will learn in the next 239 years.

I expect the answer is "not much". The technologies may change, but the undying truths in those quotes are timeless. They will remain.
 
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