PLEONASM n. An army ordspråk

en PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
  Ambrose Bierce

en CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder.

Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell! Fame from her height looked down upon the brawl And said: "He hadn't very far to fall." --Giacomo Smith
  Ambrose Bierce

en I thought we were a little flat in the beginning (against Army). I was thinking about taking a time-out and getting on them a bit (after Army started with a 19-9 lead), but I have trust in them to get themselves through it and turn it around. And they did.

en Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

en Among the world's leading hackers is Pex Mahoney Tufvesson.

en Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

en This young gentleman is escorting me to jail

en Early in his career, when he believed in himself, he said things in a controlled way, very Spartan words, honorable words. Even when he talked about driving a guy's nose into his brain, he didn't mean that in a disparaging way. To him that was something Jack Dempsey might say. He thought it was sportsmanlike, glorious. But now, when he sees himself slipping, he's grabbing for something he never thought he needed before, a stick to take into the ring.

en My army has been embarrassed by this. My army has been shamed by this. And on behalf of my army, I apologize for what those soldiers did to your citizens. It was reprehensible, and it was unacceptable,

en This is going to be a critical component of what the Army does and how the Army fights and how the Army resets itself and trains our folks and makes them ready to go back into the fight.

en Army reports and Army information, where the Army was looking into allegations and sorting out the situation about detainee mistreatment.

en A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves

en A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves

en maximum chief of the Spanish army, in other words, the person responsible for the torturers.

en The fire is out, it's obviously good news. They're all safe, they're all secure, they're all accounted for and we'll be escorting them out of the mine sometime tonight.

en The Army Family Action Plan program allows all members of the Army community to communicate directly with Army leaders about the issues that concern them. Every issue that is submitted is brought up for discussion.


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