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:
“I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)