Battalion Quotations

Sgt. Travis Arndt was a dedicated young infantry soldier doing a difficult job in a difficult time. We grieve his loss here in Iraq. ... The men of this battalion will not forget his contributions and his sacrifice and we will miss him dearly.

Some areas are being turned over to this organization in a methodical matter. We understand a couple hundred of these prospective battalion members are going through a transfer of authority.

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

A UK armored battle group consisting of the 1st Battalion the Black Watch and supporting units will deploy ... to relieve a U.S. unit for other tasks.

A year from now, if there are not more battalions at level one I will be concerned. Right now, I am not. I am concerned about level two and we are making very good progress there,

I see more soldiers daily than I did as a battalion commander.

I said, 'I want to talk to someone big,' ... Ten minutes later, we were with the battalion commander.

And I think there will be some discussion about the possibility of a combined Central American peacekeeping unit, a battalion ... perhaps to come to the aid of each other, mutually supportive of each other.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.