Unfriendly Fire/Quotes

Since I can’t choose my commanding officer, if he ends up being like the legendary soldier who ruined the Burma-Imphal front^[context?], I may decide to take action and mourn the ensuing “unfortunate accident.”

—Saga of Tanya the Evil

I've found that by-the-book commissars tend to die heroically for the Emperor, even when the enemy is suspiciously far away.

—Ciaphas Cain

We've killed officers in blue coats, officers in red coats, even officers in white coats; because I don't care what army an officer fights for, or what colour coat he wears, or what king he serves. A bad officer is better off dead, and a good soldier had better learn how to kill him.

—Sharpe lays it out to a troop of new recruits, while their officer in a white coat watches on.

Commodore Fesler, an interesting statistic: Did you know that half of all officer deaths on the battlefield are the result of assassination by subordinates?

—Colonel Grand, Fullmetal Alchemist