People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending…

- Nathaniel Fick

My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.

- Nathaniel Fick

I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the e…

- Nathaniel Fick

I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, bu…

- Nathaniel Fick

When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the …

- Nathaniel Fick

Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.

- Nathaniel Fick