Special Forces Quotes - Page 1

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
Geraldo Rivera / Attorney
Clearing
Infantry
Path
Special
Special Forces
Thinking
Forces
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X-Force was made like a brutal X-Men club - they're doing special forces, R-rated things.
Stefan Kapicic /
Brutal
Special
Special Forces
Club
Forces
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I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.
Ant Middleton /
Selection
Special Forces
Joined
Marines
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Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Special
Special Forces
Forces
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No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.
Ant Middleton /
Doors
Special
Special Forces
Behind
Desk
Down
Forces
Joined
Operative
Some
Sit
Wants
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I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.
Mike Vogel / Actor
Special Forces
Amazing Thing
Forces
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Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.
Tim Kennedy /
Special
Special Forces
Wartime
Forces
Peacetime
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The Special Forces is an aggressive and violent organisation. I wouldn't want to see a woman going through that and getting shot at.
Ant Middleton /
Aggressive
Organisation
Special Forces
Shot
Forces
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I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place.
Tim Kennedy /
Deployment
Elsewhere
Special Forces
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
Bear Grylls / Writer
Age
Special
Special Forces
Tvs
Young Age
Forces
Trained
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
Bear Grylls / Writer
Belief
Climbing
Everest
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Self Confidence
Special
Special Forces
Life Myself Me
Cemented
Forces
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Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
Mohsin Hamid / Writer
Childbirth
Perception
Soldier
Special Forces
Wife
Forces
Fought
Risked
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'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.
Jonathan Maberry / Author
Collision
Ethics
Exploration
Special Forces
Terrorism
Forces
Head-On
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I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe.
Jon Jones / Mixed Martial Artist
Five
Harder
Military
Special
Special Forces
Forces
Maybe
Special Person
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When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I started running, and I started running distance, which I enjoyed.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
Distance
Special Forces
Fat
Lieutenant
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Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
Curt Weldon / American Politician
Danger
Direct
Florida
Special Forces
Tampa
Approximately
Forces
Individuals
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
Taylor Hackford / Film Director
People
Special
Special Forces
World
Inside
World Keep People
World People Know
Advertise
Anybody
Elite
Forces
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The Green Berets of U.S. Special Forces 5th Group - known as 'the Legion' - who led the anti-Taliban campaign represent a textbook case of a successful Special Forces campaign.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Green
Legion
Special Forces
Campaign
Represent
Textbook
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Instead of large-scale occupations, we should rely on small units of Special Forces who have proved it's infinitely more effective to work with a country's soldiers and citizens at eye level.
Doug Stanton / Author
Citizens
Eye
Large Scale
Rely
Special
Special Forces
Units
Effective
Forces
Infinitely
Occupations
Proved
Soldiers
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I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that.
Tim Kennedy /
Respect
Afghanistan
British
Country
Great Respect
Iraq
Military
Negative
Special
Special Forces
Units
Whole
Respect Great Country
Deployed
Forces
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Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise policy that would benefit both Afghans and Americans.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Wise
Afghan
Army
December
Special Forces
Benefit
Presence
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My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as 'safe zones' inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces.
David Ignatius / Journalist
Aggressive
Deployment
Military
Resisting
Safe
Special Forces
Syria
Zone
Obama
Adopt
Forces
Options
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In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Confused
Delta
Operations
Special Forces
Counterterrorism
Elite
Seal
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For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.
John C. Reilly / Actor
Courage
Amazing
Five
Land
Long
Long Time
Minutes
Special
Special Forces
Time Work Amazing
Again
Boom
Forces
Meet
Parts
Supporting
Takes
Unit
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People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them.
Tim Kennedy /
Special Forces
Ranger
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While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.
Richard Carmona / Former United States Surgeon General
Army
Educated
Special Forces
Stem
Home Mother Me
Complete
Home Me Drive
Forces
Officer
Saul
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The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents.
Tim Murphy /
Women
Air
Air Force
America
Force
Gratitude
Involved
Matched
Men And Women
Special
Special Forces
States
Tracking
United
United States
Freedom Men Women
Defend
Down
Express
Freedom Women Men
Mission
Represents
Terrorists
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I feel oddly at peace with the ups and downs of pandemic life. They're not too different from the ups and downs of deployment life, which I've experienced a lot the last few years as my husband, an Army Special Forces officer, has been overseas.
Brianna Keilar /
Deployment
Special Forces
Downs
Last Few Years
Oddly
Pandemic
Ups
Ups And Downs
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The documentary feature film 'Legion of Brothers' tells the stories of the handful of U.S. Special Forces soldiers who, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, went into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and, within a matter of weeks, overthrew the Taliban regime.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Afghanistan
Film
Handful
Legion
Special
Special Forces
Stories
Taliban
Within
Attacks
Brothers
Weeks
Documentary
Feature
Feature Film
Forces
Regime
Soldiers
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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Adapted
Efficient
Force
Modern Art
Red
Special
Special Forces
Love Art Beautiful
Fish
Call
Set
Museum
Pair
Ruby
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I always have that nagging feeling of wanting to go back and getting my long gun back and be a sniper on a Special Forces ODA, which is the greatest job in the world, but I have some goals in MMA that I set out to do, and I'm not going to stop until I get them.
Tim Kennedy /
Gun
Mma
Special Forces
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'Horse Soldiers' is the untold story of how a small band of U.S. Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan in 2001, just five weeks after September 11, saddled up on horses, and rode to an improbable victory against a vastly larger Taliban and Al Qaeda army.
Doug Stanton / Author
Afghanistan
Army
Band
Horse
Improbable
September
Special Forces
Taliban
Al
Weeks
Entered
Forces
Larger
Qaeda
Rode
Secretly
Soldiers
Untold
Vastly
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'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.
Wesley Morris / Journalist
Adam
Brooks
Dictator
Israeli
Mess
Soldier
Special Forces
Adam Sandler
Forces
Lands
Mel Brooks
Salon
Similar
Strike
Vaguely
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When 9/11 happened, I was like, 'I gotta do something.' I went and talked to the recruiters, and I found out about the Special Forces 18X program. They take qualified people off the street, and they give them a shot at Special Forces. I was like, 'So I could go try out for Special Forces?'
Tim Kennedy /
Qualified
Special Forces
Gotta
Talked
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Being in the special forces has really broken a lot of the limitations I thought I had. Thoughts like 'We've done this much, so we should take a break now' were ones that I had to ignore and overcome in my training. They taught me how to keep going, no matter how difficult a situation can get.
Lee Seung-Gi /
Break
Broken
Difficult
Done
Matter
Should
Situation
Special
Special Forces
Taught
Training
Now
Lot
Had
Overcome
Much
Take
Forces
Ignore
Limitations
Thoughts
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When I became commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force, I was leading thousands of individuals, from Special Forces to the broader interagency effort. I quickly realized that while we had the most best and most effective operators and small teams in the world, we were unable to scale.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
Operations
Special Forces
Scale
Broader
Commander
Effective
Joint
Task
Task Force
Teams
Unable
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When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.
Robert Fisk / Writer
Code
Extraordinary
Numbers
Serving
Special Forces
Wounded
Detail
Forces
Front Lines
Positions
Rebels
Soldiers
Syrian
Visited
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Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin's popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines; pressuring nearby nations to join various defense and customs pacts dominated by Russia; and pushing back on the U.S. wherever convenient.
James G. Stavridis /
Convenient
Customs
Defense
Maintaining
Pushing
Russia
Special Forces
Strategy
Weapons
Advanced
Dominated
Join
Nearby
Wherever
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In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.
Richard Carmona / Former United States Surgeon General
Army
Combat
Diploma
Focused
Lost
Matured
Special
Special Forces
Wounded
Life Good Great
Became
Turning
Deal
Disciplined
Earned
Forces
Good Friends
Great Deal
Join
Overseas
Signed
Turning Point
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Of all the places I've been while talking to audiences about the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group and their story in Afghanistan, one of the most rewarding was an appearance before the 5th Group soldiers themselves at Ft. Campbell, their home, and the place from which they had launched their historic mission in Afghanistan in 2001.
Doug Stanton / Author
Afghanistan
Appearance
Army
Historic
Special
Special Forces
Audiences
Campbell
Forces
Group
Mission
Places
Rewarding
Soldiers
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My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.
Tobias Lindholm /
Classic
Denmark
Judgmental
Left Wing
Sick
Socialist
Soldier
Special Forces
Confront
Forces
Talked
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