All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling". That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come.


Speech to the Third Army (1944)

George S. Patton Quotes

All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call chicken shit drilling. That, like everything else in this Army, has a...

All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call chicken shit drilling. That, like everything else in this Army, has a...

All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call chicken shit drilling. That, like everything else in this Army, has a...

All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call chicken shit drilling. That, like everything else in this Army, has a...