"And perhaps, he thought, because sometimes when he saw Dunn on the flight line, a spunky little crew-cutted, clean-cut kid who looked more like a cheerleader than a Marine Officer, he reminded him of those young English kids standing beside their Spitfires in an East Anglican field."
Chap. 1. p. 11

"'Pickering,' he said solemnly, 'my heart is so filled with thoughts of the nobility of the profession of arms that words may fail me.'"
Chap. 2, p. 35

"'You're going to have to learn, Galloway, to engage your brain before opening your mouth,' Dawkins said more calmly. 'Just for your information, I was given the option of not giving you VMF-229. I'm giving it to you because you're the best man I have available to take the job.'"
Chap. 7, p. 172

"Moore had just decided that Marine Captain or not, this man was an amiable idiot, when Sessions...