I have seen a few tats... Meine ehre heißt treue

 

Long live death

Battle cry

Spanish Legion

 

Viva la muerte. live to the death... mebbe

 

Hmmmm.... That's actually a credo that dates back to the Spartans/Romans that has been adopted / used by virtually all military organizations to some extent or another. Marines quote it, as do Army Special Forces, etc. But it's also quite prominent in Japanese history, in particular with the Samurai.

Other expressions such as "falling on your sword" (a form of suicide) related to "death before dishonor" also date back to Spartan/Roman times and related to the "Death before Dishonor" code. For the Samurai, hara-kiri was essentially the same thing.

 

It was the motto of the Waffen SS. It's still in use in some "groups" in Germany.

 

But of all things, I think I like the US air force prayer best. I think, Oldboldpilot wrote it here somewhere:
"Please, Lord, don't let me fugg this up"

 

Spent two yrs over in Germany... seen some stuff...

 

Absolutely.
The other two are the russian spetsnaz and the british SAS.

 

Air Force maintenace...

PROBLEM: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement
SOLUTION: Almost replaced left inside main tire

PROBLEM: Test flight OK, except autoland very rough
SOLUTION: Autoland not installed on this aircraft

PROBLEM: #2 Propeller seeping prop fluid
SOLUTION: #2 Propeller seepage normal--#1, #3, and #4 Propellers lack normal seepage

PROBLEM: Something loose in cockpit
SOLUTION: Something tightened in cockpit

PROBLEM: DME volume unbelievably loud
SOLUTION: DME volume set to more believable level

PROBLEM: Evidence of hydraulic leak on right main landing gear
SOLUTION: Evidence removed

PROBLEM: Dead bugs on windshield
SOLUTION: Live bugs on order

PROBLEM: Autopilot in altitude hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent
SOLUTION: Cannot reproduce problem on ground

 

That's the fancy version of what ground control folks overhead naval aviator and astronaut Alan Shepard say before blasting into space on the 2nd Mercury shot, aka. Shepard's Prayer.

What Shepard confirmed he'd said to himself before launch was "Don't **** up". It got fancied it up in either the book or the movie The Right Stuff.