Commanders Quotes

Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people. - Michael Burgess

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. - Boris Yeltsin

When they go to work, and they are wearing military uniforms, they will take orders from their military commanders. But when they go home and the work day is over, they take their orders from us. - Hassan Qassas

What we don't have is a lot of infantry strength, and we don't want to take a lot of casualties or take a lot of time in doing this, ... So out of that mixing pot, the commanders have to pick the right tactical approaches. - Wesley Clark

What he emphasized again was that troop levels will be based on the decisions of our commanders, who will look at conditions on the ground. - Scott McClellan

We're making sure the unit commanders here can still conduct their missions without the folks from Keesler, ... There are about 18,000 airmen in the theatre, so we can pick up the slack. - David Small

We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met. - Nicholas Burns

We'll decide what we're going to do about December as we go along, but it would not be a surprise to me that the commanders would want to have some sort of an overlap there. - Donald Rumsfeld

We'll certainly miss Col. Wilson. He's been one of the best commanders I've known, and I've known them all since 1970. - Nick Ardillo