"But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." - Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BC) History of the Peloponnesian War

 

 

 

"Those who fight for life, living has a flavor the protected will never know." - Unknown defender of Khe Sanh in Vietnam

 

 

 

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon

 

 

 

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction, It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." - Governor Ronald Reagan, January 5, 1967

 

 

 

"You have to weigh those risks now, the risk of trying to live and risking everything, versus sitting back and taking longer to die. We're not talking deterrence here. We know they'll do it. I said there was no halfway in this fight, and there's not. We're dead if we don't win." - Ham Tyler via Kenneth Johnson

See such highlights as riding along with engineers patrolling for IEDs, terrorists getting "evicted" by a proper application of high velocity ordnance, and learn the finer points of cooking gourmet rice (yum yum!)