Military
- Battle of Black Jack, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War
- Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber
- "The Black Jack Brigade", nickname of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (United States)
- VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron
- Black Jack (horse) (1947–1976), served the United States Army as the riderless horse in full honors funerals
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)