United States Navy Chaplain Corps - Noncombatant Status

Famous quotes containing the words noncombatant and/or status:

“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)