style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Iliad to the Granada invasion, it is all bullshit."

5."[Dueling's] been outlawed in the Army for over a hundred years.Takes a lot of the fun out of garrison life."

6."[He] looked sort of honest, so he wasn't CIA."

7."Sometimes you have to rat someone out, but never rat out a friend.Pick an Ivy League grad whenever you can."

8."Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked."

9."Munitions is one thing we never ran out of.We ran out of will."

10. "I guessed that they had all been officers, probably army or marines, because they didn't have the sloppy and goofy mannerisms of air force officers."

11. "It was interesting that the Viets assumed all Americans were anti-Communist.I guess they hadn't met any Ivy League professors."

12. "There are descending circles of hell . . . and every soldier is convinced he's in the worst circle."

13. "If you were inside one of these things [concrete pillbox] when it took a direct hit, it would scramble your brains . . . We used to call it 'becoming a marine.'"

14. "[A] senior colonel trying to get a star was like a high school girl trying to get a date the night before the prom; blow jobs were not out of the questions."

15. "I've never actually known a war story to get smaller with a retelling."