Dick Couch Quotes

#1. We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric
we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

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#2. If you don't know or didn't understand, ASK! It's your responsibility to find out. Research; demonstrate an unquenchable desire to know everything about your job. If something is broken or not right, take the initiative to fix it or make

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#3. It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

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#4. We are an impatient culture and an impatient electorate.

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#5. Interestingly, when they are on our side, we usually refer to them as guerrillas or partisans or freedom fighters. When they, the men in the hills, oppose a government we support, we call them insurgents.

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#6. Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

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#7. To be a leader, you must first be a team player, and you must care for the men you lead.

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#8. You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.

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#9. What Mr. Friedman is suggesting is that if we don't drain the swamp where the rats are breeding, it won't really matter how many of these rats we kill; they will continue to leave the swamp and migrate to our cities in numbers that are legion.

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#10. Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover.

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