Peter Schoomaker Quotations

We're staying 18 months to two years ahead of ourselves

Much of what we've gained out of Comanche we can push forward into the tech base for future joint rotor-craft kinds of capabilities, as we look further out,

Get the word out and focus on this issue now, ... I expect to see immediate improvement.

We're a long way from what anybody would call dire straits,

We are now into '07-'09 in our planning,

some soldiers continue to post sensitive information to Internet Web sites and blogs, i.e., photos depicting weapon system vulnerabilities and tactics, techniques and procedures.

It's a big decision. We know it's a big decision, but it's the right decision,

Eating soup with a fork: slow and messy.

I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had people that could help people, and we had people on the ground that could get into somebody's face when they had to, and do whatever was required.

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.