Author: A Murphy's Military Law Page 2

Odd objects attract fire… never lurk behind one.

Tracers work BOTH ways.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons!

The enemy never monitors your radio frequency until you broadcast on an unsecured channel.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

All battles are fought at the junction of two or more map sheets… printed at different scales.

Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little while longer.

A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.

If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.

If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.

Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short.

Whenever you have plenty of ammo, you never miss; whenever you are low on ammo, you can't hit the broad side of a barn.

No plan survives first contact intact.

Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

All other things being equal, the side with the simplest uniforms wins.

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

Field experience is something you never get until just after you need it.

Any ship can be a minesweeper… once.

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.