Gunnery Quotes

They lit us up! Missiles incoming! Six count, closing, dead astern!" "Back-trace the missile lock and feed it to the computer for counter-fire." "Great idea! I'll get right on that first thing as soon as I graduate from gunnery school! (Matthew Stover)
He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery. View quote
Lord Byron
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. View quote
Hanna Rosin
Words can't express how humbled I am in being given the privilege to portray Gunnery Sergeant Basilone! View quote
Jon Seda
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. View quote
Jules Verne