Evan Wright Quotes & Sayings

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah! — Evan Wright

With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival. — Evan Wright

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary — Evan Wright

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself ... When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun. — Evan Wright

NAMBLA's infiltrated First Recon,' Person continues after bringing the vehicle to a stop. 'There's a guy in Third Platoon, hes going to be collecting photographs of all the children and sending them back to NAMBLA HQ. Back at Pendleton he volunteers at the daycare center. He goes around collecting all the turds from the five-year-olds and puts them into Copenhagen tins. Out there everyone thinks he's dipping, but it's not tobacco. It's dookie from five-year-olds. — Evan Wright

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country. — Evan Wright

Hey, it's ten in the morning!' says Person, yelling at two farmers dressed in robes in the distance. 'Don't you think you ought to change out of your pajamas? — Evan Wright

Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja. — Evan Wright

Marines getting baptized? This used to be a place of men with pure warrior spirit. Chaplains are a goddamn waste. — Evan Wright

You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it — Evan Wright

You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back. — Evan Wright

Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings. — Evan Wright

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody. — Evan Wright

That was pretty ninja. — Evan Wright

One of the few comforts I have when looking at images of distant suffering is the hope that the starving child with flies on his face doesn't know how pathetic he is. If all he knows is misery, maybe his suffering isn't as bad. — Evan Wright

Taking a shit is always a big production in a war zone. — Evan Wright

Don't pet a burning dog. — Evan Wright