Military
- Virgil Brennan – flying ace of the Second World War
- Ray Funnell – Class of 1952 – Chief of the Air Staff - RAAF 1987 - 1992
- Geoff Shepherd – Class of 1969 – Chief of the RAAF 2005-2008
- Ian Westwood – Brigadier, Chief Military Judge of the Australian Defence Force
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)