We then went to the swimming pool which is beyond the reception room. This was the finest pool I had ever seen, with red-and-green submerged lights, … - George S. Patton

All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling". That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come.

So as through a glass, and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. <p> And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. <p> So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a fighter, But to die again, once more.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.