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Top 20 Nathaniel Fick Quotes (2025 Update)

Nathaniel Fick Quote: “My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company? is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.”

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

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “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 lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.”

2. “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 lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “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 end of the day there’s an element that’s always going to be beyond your control.”

3. “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 end of the day there’s an element that’s always going to be beyond your control.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.”

4. “Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Safety is paramount.” “If safety were paramount,” Whitmer declared, “we’d stay in the barracks and play pickup basketball. Good training is paramount.”

5. “Safety is paramount.” “If safety were paramount,” Whitmer declared, “we’d stay in the barracks and play pickup basketball. Good training is paramount.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “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 to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.”

6. “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 to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Complex ideas must be made simple, or they’ll remain ideas and never be put into action.”

7. “Complex ideas must be made simple, or they’ll remain ideas and never be put into action.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “You need discipline most, when it’s hardest to muster.”

8. “You need discipline most, when it’s hardest to muster.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Tactical catastrophes are rarely the outcome of a single poor decision. Small compromises incrementally close off options until a commander is forced into actions he would never choose freely.”

9. “Tactical catastrophes are rarely the outcome of a single poor decision. Small compromises incrementally close off options until a commander is forced into actions he would never choose freely.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “We learned that indecision is a decision, that inaction has a cost all its own. Good commanders act and create opportunities. Great commanders ruthlessly exploit those opportunities.”

10. “We learned that indecision is a decision, that inaction has a cost all its own. Good commanders act and create opportunities. Great commanders ruthlessly exploit those opportunities.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world.”

11. “Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn’t based on consensus. It’s based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and influence as is conferred by the consent of those he leads. The Marines allowed me to be their commander, and they could revoke their permission at any time.”

12. “Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn’t based on consensus. It’s based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and influence as is conferred by the consent of those he leads. The Marines allowed me to be their commander, and they could revoke their permission at any time.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “The Marines,′ my dad said, ’will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you.”

13. “The Marines,′ my dad said, ’will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Tell me what to do, not how to do it.′ Decentralize command and allow subordinates to operate freely within the framework of the commander’s intent. Train them as a team. Develop trust, loyalty, initiative.”

14. “Tell me what to do, not how to do it.′ Decentralize command and allow subordinates to operate freely within the framework of the commander’s intent. Train them as a team. Develop trust, loyalty, initiative.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they’re sane. Only sane people can thing they’re crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.”

15. “I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they’re sane. Only sane people can thing they’re crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.”

— Nathaniel Fick

Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Marine training is essentially a psychological battle against the instinct for self-preservation.”

16. “Marine training is essentially a psychological battle against the instinct for self-preservation.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most – their men.”

17. “Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most – their men.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people “for what you guys did over there.” Thanks for what, I wanted to ask – shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people’s homes?”

18. “Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people “for what you guys did over there.” Thanks for what, I wanted to ask – shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people’s homes?”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.”

19. “VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “Christeson, cut that stop sign down and put it in the back of the truck”. He looked at me in disbelief. An Officer had never before ordered him to commit vandalism.”

20. “Christeson, cut that stop sign down and put it in the back of the truck”. He looked at me in disbelief. An Officer had never before ordered him to commit vandalism.”

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Nathaniel Fick Quote: “The rule of captivity is to bend, not break.”

21. “The rule of captivity is to bend, not break.”

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