Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen quotes from Space: Above and Beyond

Courage, Honour, Dedication, Sacrifice, these are just the words they used to get you here, now the only word that means a damn to you, is life. Yours, your buddies, the one certainty in war is that in an hour, maybe two, you'll either still be alive or you'll be dead.

That's when we'll teach them something every human knows. Payback's a bitch.

Every life in this war is tied together.

I don't think about what never was

Kind of a bummer getting your butt kicked by a dead guy.

Whatever your doing I take one look at you and know that it's only about you, and anyone pulled in is going to die while you just drive on

A great warrior, a better man, has fallen

An unloaded weapon always shoots the loudest.

Parents of marines have lost their sons for 300 years

I've been getting an earful of bitching and moaning about pilots getting deployed as ground-pounders, hear this c.f.b (clear as a fucking bell), this is not the Air Force, this is the Corps, air/ground, combat element of The 51st M.E.U. (Marine Expeditionary Unit), every Marine a rifleman. Therefore, you will fight on command, where needed, how needed, do I make myself clear??

The right thing to do is rarely the easiest.

We thought we were alone. We believed the universe was ours. Until one night in 2063, on a Earth colony 16 light-years away, they struck. Now we are at war. We fight when called, in space, on land, and at sea. To lose this war means more than defeat, to surrender is to never go home. All of us must rise to the call... above and beyond.

Lt. Paul Wang

What would do if the war was over?

Well I'll find a quiet place, alone, and ask forgiveness for the lives I've taken, then I'l pull out the accordion, get naked and polka around the flight deck