- You are not Superman
- If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.
- Don't look conspicuous. It draws fire. (This is why aircraft carriers are called Bomb Magnets.)
- When in doubt, empty your magazine.
- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
- Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
- If your attack is going really well it's an ambush.
- No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
- All five-second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds.
- Try to look unimportant because the bad guys may be low on ammo.
- If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short.
- The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.
- The important things are always simple.
- The simple things are always hard.
- The easy way is always mined.
- If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.
- When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy.
- Incoming fire has the right of way.
- Friendly fire... isn't.
- If the enemy is in range, "SO ARE YOU."
- No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
- Beer math is two beers times 37 men = 49 cases.
- Body count math is two guerillas plus one portable plus two pigs = 37 enemy killed in action.
- Things that must be together to work, usually can't be shipped together.
- Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately.
- Anything you can do can get you shot--including doing nothing.
- Tracers work both ways.
- The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
- Make it tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.
- If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share of objectives to take.
- When both sides are convinced that they are about to lose, they are both right.
- Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.
- The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.
- The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
- There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you... and miss.
- Murphy was a grunt.