Quotes by John Horton

“It was a combination of a couple of Army regulations that dealt primarily with SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) and joint publications that talked about CSAR (combat search and rescue),”

“Someone would have to say, Hey, we have somebody that is still out there. Go get them, and that dedicated force would go do it,”

“Our Soldiers need to know that were not going to leave them out there, that we are coming for them,”

“Youre going to see it with reintegration as well. Just because we recover a Soldier, it doesnt stop there; when that Soldier comes home and goes through his rear detachment the personnel recovery mechanism is still doing a bunch of things to help reintegrate that Soldier, ... To make sure that hes taken care of.”

“Some units have taken it down to the battalion level, thats how critical they see it,”

“I think that theyre going to run out of gas if theyre not careful. It would be worse to run out than it would be to have plenty of high-priced gas.”

“Matt shows what work and perseverance can do. When he was a sophomore, we didnt think too much of him as a player. Hes made improvements to where I think he is all-state caliber.”

“The rivalry was the last thing on my mind. I tried to downplay it as much as possible because we arent used to having a large number of people at games and I was afraid wed lose focus.”

“We talked at halftime about a couple of things. First thing we fixed is that we werent playing a physical game in the first half, and secondly we moved Matt Mikhail to midfield to get more possessions on the ball.”

“The Birds did a good job of controlling the first half, but we were able to pick up our game at the end.”