What are some of your favorite quotes from military-based Movies?

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:34:15 -0400

For Instance:

"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think"

Response by CPT Zachary Brooks made Mar 17 at 2015 11:36 AM

CPT Zachary Brooks — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:36:06 -0400

One of my all time favorite quotes from a war scene in a non war movie, Remember the Titans.
"Anybody know what this place is? This is Gettysburg. This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're still fightin' amongst ourselves today.

This green field right here was painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys, smoke and hot lead pourin' right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men:

'I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family.'

You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other. And maybe -- I don't know -- maybe we'll learn to play this game like men."

From the same movie, I also love the quote that Julius says to Gary: "Attitude reflects leadership, Captain"

The extension of yours as well:
"Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to. "

Starship Troopers:
"Jean Rasczak: You. Why are only citizens allowed to vote?

Student: It's a reward. Something the federation gives you for doing federal service.

Jean Rasczak: No. Something given has no value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. "

"Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.

Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that. "

This can be replaced with citizen and soldier:
"Johnny Rico: Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility"

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:38 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:38:28 -0400

Every meal time a feast! Every formation a parade! Every paycheck a fortune!

Not a military movie, per se, but it has military as part of the horror movie.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:38 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:38:43 -0400

Great Idea!

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:41 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:41:22 -0400

"Let me respond to you this way. I'm an officer, and therefore, by proclamation, a gentleman, but don't abuse that, son. Don't get in my crosshairs, because I'll have no compunction whatsoever about getting up to my neck in yo' ass. Do you understand me?"

Response by CPT Zachary Brooks made Mar 17 at 2015 11:42 AM

CPT Zachary Brooks — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:42:27 -0400

Everyone's favorite lovable idiot with a huge heart Forrest Gump:

"Forrest Gump: DONE, DRILL SERGEANT!

Drill Sergeant: GUUUUUUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?

Forrest Gump: [confused] You told me to, Drill Sergeant?"

"Drill Sergeant: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army?

Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!

Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump."

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:42 AM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:42:40 -0400

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Look around you. In the 7th cavalry, we've got a captain from the Ukraine; another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee Indians. Jews and Gentiles. All Americans. Now here in the states, some of you in this unit may have experienced discrimination because of race or creed. But for you and me now, all that is gone. We're moving into the valley of the shadow of death, where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is, or by what name he calls God. They say we're leaving home. We're going to what home was always supposed to be.....

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:43 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:43:02 -0400

Jack Ryan: [to himself, imitating Ramius] "Ryan, some things in here don't react well to bullets." Yeah, like me. I don't react well to bullets. - The Hunt For Red October

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:49 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:49:13 -0400

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like…victory. Someday this war’s gonna end…”

– Apocalypse Now (1979)

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:49 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:49:57 -0400

"Few of us are given the opportunity, even fewer the courage to sacrifice ourselves for the lives of our comrades. In daily life, even as in battle each one of us is mysteriously and irrevocably bound to our fellow man. And yet, it is only in death that the power of this bond is finally tested and proven. And who among us really knows how he might respond when the moment comes?"

"You see that man? You and he are brothers! He depends on you! You depend on him! You *never* leave a man behind!"

Response by SSG Rob Cline made Mar 17 at 2015 11:52 AM

SSG Rob Cline — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:52:28 -0400

"Somebody once wrote, 'Hell is the impossibility of reason.' That's what this place feels like. Hell."
Platoon - 1986

Response by LCDR Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:52 AM

LCDR Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:52:34 -0400

Goose: No. No, Mav, this is not a good idea.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:53 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:53:02 -0400

“And what are you? So full of hate you want to go out and fight everybody! Because you’ve been whipped and chased by hounds. Well that might not be living, but it sure as hell ain’t dying. And dying’s been what these white boys have been doing for going on three years now! Dying by the thousands! Dying for *you*, fool! I know, ’cause I dug the graves. And all this time I keep askin’ myself, when, O Lord, when it’s gonna be our time?”

– Glory (1989)

Morgan Freeman as Sgt. Major John Rawlins as he tries to motivate the former slave troops to fight side-by-side with guys that would crap their pants if they found out The United States would have a black President.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:53 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:53:39 -0400

We Were Soldier- Good morning Seargent Major--How do you know what kind of God damn day it is. ---- nice weather we are having Seargent Major-- What are you the f*cking weather man now

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:53 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:53:51 -0400

"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:55 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:55:03 -0400

“When I go home people will ask me, ‘Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?’ You know what I’ll say? I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you, and that’s it. That’s all it is.”

– Black Hawk Down (2001)

Eric Bana as Norman "Hoot" Hooten, loads up his weapon to go on the rescue mission to help pull a squad of Army Rangers out of a huge pile of shit in Somalia.

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:58 AM

CSM Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:58:11 -0400

The only thing that can kill Barnes is Barnes!

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 11:59 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:59:54 -0400

“You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit… I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless.”

– Full Metal Jacket (1987)

R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman doing his best to offer a warm welcome to his newest beloved troops on the first day of boot camp where he will break them down…to break them down some more.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 12:06 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:06:51 -0400

"Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time.”

Patton (1970) – General George Patton (George C. Scott)

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 12:08 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:08:47 -0400

“We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams.”
We Were Soldiers (2002) – Joseph Galloway (Barry Pepper)

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 12:20 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:20:42 -0400

"Matt 'Axe' Axelson: [while sighting in a Taliban fighter] You can die for your country, I'm gonna live for mine."

"Matt 'Axe' Axelson: I understand. And I don't care. I care about you. I care about you. I care about you. I care about you."

"Michael Murphy: Negative. We just got the opportunity to make hell *fucking* strong contact with our front from the other side. Job well done."

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Mar 17 at 2015 1:05 PM

Cpl Jeff N. — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:05:13 -0400

The Japanese are in the process of taking half of the world.And they mean to keep it .With death from the air,land and sea.But here is what the Japs are not expecting:The United States Marine Corps.

Now never mind Europe,the Nazis,Mussolini,Hitler is not gonna be your job.Not until they can't whip him without us.The Pacific will be our theater of war.The Marines will do battle with the Japs.On tiny specks of turf that we have never heard of.

You noncommissioned officers,you are the sinew and muscle of the Corps.The orders come from the brassand you get it done.And whenever this war is over,when we have swept upon the main islands of Japan,and destroyed every scrap of that empire,the strategy will have been that of others,the victory will have been won by you.You,the NCOs,with the chevrons on your sleeves and the instincts in your guts,and the blood on your boots.

Those of you who are lucky enough to get home for Christmas,hold your loved ones dearly and join them in prayers for peace on earth and goodwill toward all men.And then report back here,ready to sail across God's vast ocean,where we will meet our enemy and kill them all. Merry Christmas,Happy 1942.

Chesty Puller in The Pacific miniseries

Response by 1SG Jason Smith made Mar 17 at 2015 2:27 PM

1SG Jason Smith — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:27:56 -0400

Mel Gibson in the Patriot talking to heath ledger who plaed his son...."And men buy me drinks"

Response by SSG Robert Burns made Mar 17 at 2015 2:45 PM

SSG Robert Burns — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:45:19 -0400

A question that seemed humorous when I was a kid watching the movie but is heartbreaking now that I've heard it in real life right before one ended.
"Forrest, why did this happen?"

Most painful question I've ever heard, and the person wasn't around for the answer...not that I had one to give.

Response by SGT Rik Thibodeau made Mar 17 at 2015 2:53 PM

SGT Rik Thibodeau — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:53:45 -0400

Michael: "You gotta do it Nicky!"
VC Guard: "MAO! MAO! DIDI MAO!

-The Deer Hunter

Response by CH (MAJ) William Beaver made Mar 17 at 2015 3:36 PM

CH (MAJ) William Beaver — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:36:16 -0400

Ante up and kick in like men.....like MEN! - Glory

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 3:36 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:36:36 -0400

[At Sterling, when arrows rain down on the Scots.]
Stephen: The Almighty tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked.

-- Braveheart, 1995

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 3:46 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:46:40 -0400

John Winger: C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Czechoslovakia. It's like going into Wisconsin.
Russell Ziskey: Well I got the shit kicked out of me in Wisconsin once. Forget it!

-- Stripes, 1981

Perhaps the greatest Army comedy ever!

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 3:56 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:56:51 -0400

Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.

Nobody gives a hunky shit who you are, pus ball. You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot. Get your ass on the bus, you're in the army now!

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 4:11 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:11:42 -0400

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 4:12 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:12:48 -0400

"Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do.
" Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying - 1964

If you've never seen this Cold War dark comedy, you are missing out!

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 4:15 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:15:39 -0400

It's a commercial, but it makes me crack up!!!

Patient: “And that’s why yellow makes me sad I think”
Sarge: “That’s interesting… You know what makes me sad? YOU DO! Maybe we should chug on over to namby-pamby land where maybe we can find some self confidence for you ya jackwagon. Tissue?” ::throws box at patient::

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 4:22 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:22:56 -0400

"[the President calls the Soviet Premier Kissoff (great name! to inform him that a U.S. Base Commander has went off the deep end and has ordered his nuclear-armed B-52s to attack their designated targets in the Soviet Union]

President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ahm... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.

" Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying - 1964

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 4:24 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:24:25 -0400

Lieutenant Dewindt: FUBAR.

Private Reiben: FUBAR.

Sergeant Horvath: FUBAR.

Captain Miller: FUBAR

Private Jackson: Y'all got that right.

Corporal Upham: I looked up "fubar" in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in here.

Response by COL Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 4:31 PM

COL Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:31:25 -0400

"Everyone fights. Nobody quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself." - Starship Troopers

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 4:34 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:34:56 -0400

Capt. Rodway, USMC: We each have our jobs. Now I'm a Marine. That means I do the serious work. You're a Navy Pilot. That means that you sit here and... eat jello

Admiral Reigart: Our man is down behind enemy lines, now what the fuck is the problem?

Chris Burnett: You're an optimist, sir. See I had you figured for a grouch.

Response by SFC Rodrick Carter made Mar 17 at 2015 5:40 PM

SFC Rodrick Carter — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:40:51 -0400

Outlaw Josey Wales

Bounty hunter #1: You're wanted, Wales.

Josey Wales: Reckon I'm right popular. You a bounty hunter?

Bounty hunter #1: A man's got to do something for a living these days.

Josey Wales: Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

Response by SFC Rodrick Carter made Mar 17 at 2015 5:52 PM

SFC Rodrick Carter — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:52:06 -0400

“When I go home people will ask me, ‘Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?’ You know what I’ll say? I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you, and that’s it. That’s all it is.” — Norman “Hoot” Hooten, “Black Hawk Down” (2001)

Response by SFC Rodrick Carter made Mar 17 at 2015 5:54 PM

SFC Rodrick Carter — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:54:23 -0400

“Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of sh-t! Get the f–k off of my obstacle! Get the f–k down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I’m going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-D–KS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!” — Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, “Full Metal Jacket” (1987)

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 17 at 2015 7:17 PM

MSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:17:19 -0400

In memory of Robin.....

"Goooooooood morning Vietnam! It's 0600 hours. What does the "O" stand for? O my God, it's early! Speaking of early, let's hear it for that Marty Lee Drywitz. Silky smooth sounds, making me sound like Peggy Lee"...

Response by SSG Trevor S. made Mar 17 at 2015 7:35 PM

SSG Trevor S. — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:35:22 -0400

"Do you want to know more?"

Response by COL Charles Williams made Mar 18 at 2015 12:00 AM

COL Charles Williams — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:00:01 -0400

Aside from Full Metal Jacket.... the entire Boot Camp sequence...

1. Stripes... "Convicted... No, never convicted." or "You mean like flaming... No we're not homosexuals... but we are willing to learn..."

2. Saving Private Ryan... Beach... "We're in Business!!!"

3. Kelly's Heroes... "Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves."

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Response by SPC Lukas Jones made Mar 18 at 2015 12:26 AM

SPC Lukas Jones — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:26:55 -0400

Some of my favorites came from Private Benjamin and Stripes:

Judy Benjamin: I think they sent me to the wrong place.
Capt. Doreen Lewis: Uh-huh.
Judy Benjamin: See, I did join the army, but I joined a *different* army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms

Judy Benjamin: My husband had a heart attack and died on our wedding night, while we were making love.
Pvt. Mary Lou Glass: Jesus! Benjamin! I don't get it, what do you do after a thing like that?
Judy Benjamin: Join the Army

General Barnicke: Where have you been soldier?
John Winger: Training, sir.
Soldiers: Training, sir.
General Barnicke: What kind of training?
John Winger: Army training, sir.
Soldiers: Army training, sir.

Sergeant Hulka: You better hit those bunks my little babies, or Sergeant Hulka with the "big toe" is gonna see how far he can stick it up your ass.

Response by SSgt June Worden made Mar 18 at 2015 12:37 AM

SSgt June Worden — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:37:44 -0400

Heroes are something we create, something we need. It's a way for us to understand what is almost incomprehensible, how people could sacrifice so much for us, but for my dad and these men the risks they took, the wounds they suffered, they did that for their buddies, they may have fought for their country but they died for their friends.”
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) – James Bradley (Thomas McCarthy)

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 2:22 AM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:22:00 -0400

We're not here to die for our country, we're here to make that poor bastard die for his
Patton
I know I butchered it

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 2:24 AM

CSM Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:24:58 -0400

Just about everything Clint Eastwood says in Heartbreak Ridge...

Gunny Highway: I've drank more beer, pissed more blood, and banged more quiff than all you numb-nuts put together.

Gunny Highway: Be advised I'm mean nasty and tired I eat concertina wire and piss napalm and I could put a round through a fleas ass at 300 yards So why don't you hump somebody else's leg mutt-face before I push yours in.

Gunny Highway: Why don't I bend you over the table there send you home with the "I just pumped the neighbor's cat" look on your face.

SGM Choozoo: Hey crotch rot you gonna slurp my lifer's juice out of my own cup
Gunny Highway: Yeah I should've gotten shots beforehand
SGM Choozoo: Your brain as half as quick as your mouth skunk stool you'd be a friggin' twenty-star general by now
Gunny Highway: And if I was a half as ugly as you Sergeant Major I'd be a poster boy for a prophylactic

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 3:15 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:15:40 -0400

"Best job I ever had!" ... Fury

Response by SGT Tyler G. made Mar 18 at 2015 5:44 AM

SGT Tyler G. — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:44:35 -0400

"Where have you been soldier?"
"Training sir."
"What kind of training?"
"Army training sir."
-Stripes

Response by SFC Collin McMillion made Mar 18 at 2015 6:02 AM

SFC Collin McMillion — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 06:02:41 -0400

Rambo 1," We love our country more than our country loves us".

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 10:31 AM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:31:48 -0400

"I don't believe you people."
"Huh? What do you mean 'you people'?"
"What do YOU mean, 'you people'?"
"Huh?"

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 10:34 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:34:18 -0400

Lt. Jordan O'Neil: Master Chief...

Master Chief John Urgayle: Lieutenant, seek life elsewhere.

Lt. Jordan O'Neil: Suck my dick!

Had to throw a little GI Jane action in here. Baha

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 10:39 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:39:12 -0400

'Slov' Slovnik: Lemme get this straight. Now we're *sharing the same fucking head*!

Lt. Jordan O'Neil: Listen, you moron! I am here to stay and if you don't wanna be in my life, you've got two choices. Move out or Ring out! That's it! End of File!

'Wick' Wickwire: [to Slovnik] I say you've got less than one minute to get your fucking clothes on!

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 10:40 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:40:39 -0400

When I go home people'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?" You know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you, and that's it. That's all it is.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 10:50 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:50:49 -0400

Master Chief John Urgayle: Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain?

Lt. Jordan O'Neil: Don't know!

Master Chief John Urgayle: It lets you know you're not dead yet!

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Mar 18 at 2015 10:59 AM

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:59:55 -0400

Abraham Erskine: Do you want to kill Nazis?
Steve Rogers: Is this a test?
Abraham Erskine: Yes.
Steve Rogers: I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.

From Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:23 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:23:50 -0400

Hal Moore "how do you think custer felt"
CSM Plumley "custer was a pussy, sir"

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:24 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:24:47 -0400

"If it bleeds, we can kill it" Arnold

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:26 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:26:47 -0400

MAJ Winters "CPT where is your salute, you don't have to respect the man but you have to respect the man"

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:27 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:27:37 -0400

"This is my safety" Black Hawk Down

Response by SSG Rob Cline made Mar 18 at 2015 11:46 AM

SSG Rob Cline — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:46:28 -0400

"We got a case of ARVN rifles... Ain't never been fired and only dropped once!"
~FMJ

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:48 AM

PO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:48:06 -0400

PVT Joker: "is this you john wayne?...is this me?"
Gunny Hartman: "WHO'S THE TWINKLE TOED COMMUNIST C***SUCKER DOWN HERE THAT JUST SIGNED HIS OWN DEATH WARRANT?"
FMJ

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:52 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:52:14 -0400

"You're going to be surrounded." -A young LT
"We're paratroopers, Lieutenant...we're supposed to be surrounded." -MAJ Dick Winters

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:54 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:54:28 -0400

Han Solo: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Voice: We're sending a squad up.
Han Solo: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number?
Han Solo: Uh...
[Han shoots the intercom]
Han Solo: [muttering] Boring conversation anyway. LUKE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 11:57 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:57:12 -0400

Psycho: The name's Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. And I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. Also, I don't like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 12:32 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:32:09 -0400

Ranger Up Web Series "The Damn Few" - Godddddd Damn.... sums 99% of all reactions in the military.

Or their damn few poster (quote) that would so get me flagged in a second (link here:http://www.rangerup.com/rhinoposter.html)

Response by TSgt John Dias made Mar 18 at 2015 12:36 PM

TSgt John Dias — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:36:10 -0400

This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it. - Gunnery Sergeant Highway

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 12:37 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:37:04 -0400

SSG. Barnes: Talking about killing? Y'all experts? Y'all know about killing? I'd like to hear about it, potheads.

Response by TSgt John Dias made Mar 18 at 2015 12:39 PM

TSgt John Dias — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:39:33 -0400

Excuse the language:

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir". Do you maggots understand that?

Recruits: [In unison in a normal speaking tone] Sir, yes Sir.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!

Recruits: [In unison, much louder] SIR, YES SIR!

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit! Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on n*ggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?

Response by LTC Stephen C. made Mar 18 at 2015 12:48 PM

LTC Stephen C. — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:48:19 -0400

SGT Private RallyPoint Member, Col Nathan R. Jessup's quote from "A Few Good Men" is aruguably one of the best, if not the best military quote, from a movie. You picked the best one!

Response by SSG Leonard Johnson made Mar 18 at 2015 2:13 PM

SSG Leonard Johnson — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:13:00 -0400

I ain't got time to bleed

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 2:18 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:18:24 -0400

Apocalypse Now

Chef - Why do all you guys sit on your helmets?
Soldier - So we don't get our balls blown off.

Response by SSG Dave McPeak made Mar 18 at 2015 2:29 PM

SSG Dave McPeak — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:29:30 -0400

From "Fury" (And I wasn't even a DAT, LOL)

Best job I ever had

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 2:33 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:33:23 -0400

Do you smell that? Napalm son, nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning... Smells like, victory.

Response by CPT Chris Loomis made Mar 18 at 2015 2:43 PM

CPT Chris Loomis — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:43:54 -0400

From the movie Stripes:

John Winger: "My philosophy: a hundred-dollar shine on a three-dollar pair of shoes."

Response by CPT Chris Loomis made Mar 18 at 2015 2:52 PM

CPT Chris Loomis — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:52:24 -0400

Again from the movie Stripes:

John Winger: "Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual. But now I know why I have always lost women to guys like you. I mean, it's not just the uniform. It's the stories that you tell. So much fun and imagination."

((points to the young soldier next to him named, Lee Harvey))

"Lee Harvey, yoouuu are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow.... I want to party with you, cowboy! If the two of us together, forget it.... I'm gonna go out on a limb here. I'm gonna volunteer my leadership to this Platoon. An Army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe. And Sgt Hulka isn't always gonna be here to be that big toe for us. I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest, bestest buddy, and big toe... Sgt Hulka!"

Response by SSG Dave McPeak made Mar 18 at 2015 3:00 PM

SSG Dave McPeak — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:00:22 -0400

From the same classic

"Never get out of the boat, never get out of the boat"

"I didn't get out of the eighth grade for this goddamn shit"

Apocalypse Now has to many to count, but the cook had my favorites

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 4:33 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:33:38 -0400

"I think, uh... in order to honor a soldier like Karen Walden, we have to tell the truth, General, about what happened over there. The whole, hard... cold truth. And until we do that, uh, we dishonor her and every soldier who died, who gave their life for their country."

Response by SGT Paul Zinder made Mar 18 at 2015 6:17 PM

SGT Paul Zinder — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:17:44 -0400

Black Hawk Down, No one wants to be a hero, sometimes it just turns out that way.

Response by SGT Paul Zinder made Mar 18 at 2015 6:58 PM

SGT Paul Zinder — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:58:17 -0400

They may take our land but they will never take our freedom. Brave Hart. I think about this everyday and it applies for me in the US today. They will never take our land or our freedom.

Response by Cpl Peter Martuneac made Mar 18 at 2015 7:01 PM

Cpl Peter Martuneac — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:01:07 -0400

"It's amazing what a little harmony'll do." -The Alamo

Response by CPL Roger Malan made Mar 18 at 2015 7:11 PM

CPL Roger Malan — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:11:48 -0400

We will hold them by the nose and kick them in the ass general Patton

Response by SSG Gerhard S. made Mar 18 at 2015 7:17 PM

SSG Gerhard S. — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:17:28 -0400

From "We Were Soldiers"
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I think you oughta get yourself an M-16.

Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground.

Response by Sgt Robert Holden made Mar 18 at 2015 7:18 PM

Sgt Robert Holden — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:18:56 -0400

From Heartbreak Ridge:

Colonel Meyers: Have we ever served together?
Highway: I don't know, sir. Sergeant Major Choozoo and I were in the 2nd Battalion and 7th in '68.
Colonel Meyers: I had a rifle company in the 1st Battalion and 7th in '68.
Highway: Well, we sure as hell chewed some of the same dirt, sir.
Colonel Meyers: That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise?
Highway: It's a cluster fuck.
Colonel Meyers: Say again?
Highway: Marines are fighting men, sir. They shouldn't be sitting around on their sorry asses filling out request forms for equipment they should already have.
Colonel Meyers: Interesting observation. Carry on, Major.

Response by SGT John Wesley made Mar 18 at 2015 7:27 PM

SGT John Wesley — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:27:45 -0400

Aaaaaaaaarmy staring Sir! (Stripes) loved Bill Murray!

Response by SGT John Wesley made Mar 18 at 2015 7:29 PM

SGT John Wesley — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:29:04 -0400

Dang spell check! "Aaaaarmy Training Sir!"

Response by SGT John Wesley made Mar 18 at 2015 7:38 PM

SGT John Wesley — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:38:04 -0400

From "Saving Private Ryan"

"We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow f***ing orders"

Response by MAJ(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 8:39 PM

MAJ(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:39:12 -0400

"Their the foot soldiers of a Jew hating mass murdering maniac and they need to de-stroyed." Seems appropiate given current events.

Response by GySgt Terrence Fry made Mar 18 at 2015 8:41 PM

GySgt Terrence Fry — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:41:06 -0400

Fat Man at Bench: It was a bullet, wasn't it?
Forrest Gump: A bullet?
Fat Man at Bench: That jumped up and bit you.
Forrest Gump: Oh, yes sir. Bit me right in the buttocks. They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars.

Response by GySgt Terrence Fry made Mar 18 at 2015 8:42 PM

GySgt Terrence Fry — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:42:25 -0400

Forrest Gump: There was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland - he was from Detroit; and Tex... well, I don't remember where Tex come from.

CLASSIC!!!!

Response by Cpl Daniel Mercer made Mar 18 at 2015 9:39 PM

Cpl Daniel Mercer — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:39:36 -0400

"Get Some" Full Metal Jacket

Response by Cpl Daniel Mercer made Mar 18 at 2015 9:43 PM

Cpl Daniel Mercer — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:43:53 -0400

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

You can rob me...

...you can starve me, you can beat me, and you can kill me...

...just don't bore me.

Gunny Highway

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 10:06 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:06:06 -0400

From the Dirty Dozen:

Major John Reisman: Which one of you guys wants to be a general?
[to Pinkley]
Major John Reisman: Pinkley?
Pinkley: What kind of general, sir?
Major John Reisman: Just a plain, ordinary, every day, home-lovin' American general.
Pinkley: I'd rather be a civilian, sir.

(later)

Major John Reisman: You've seen a general inspecting troops before haven't you? Just walk slow, act dumb and look stupid!

Response by Sgt Matt Pinardi made Mar 18 at 2015 10:15 PM

Sgt Matt Pinardi — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:15:31 -0400

Maximus: I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."

Response by 1SG Brian Adams made Mar 18 at 2015 10:21 PM

1SG Brian Adams — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:21:56 -0400

"Beautiful morning Sergeant Major"
Reply: "What are you a fucking weatherman now"

We were Soldiers...

Response by SGT John Wesley made Mar 18 at 2015 11:05 PM

SGT John Wesley — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:05:09 -0400

Heartbreak Ridge:

Gunny Highway (In the latrine) :We move swift. We move silent. We move deadly. Only one shake of those wangs ladies. Anymore than that consitutes pleasure and we're not in that business.

Response by SP5 Michael Rathbun made Mar 18 at 2015 11:47 PM

SP5 Michael Rathbun — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:47:42 -0400

"It would have been better for all concerned, Gordoon Pasha... if you had never gone to see Zubair."

Khartoum

Response by SGT Edward Thomas made Mar 19 at 2015 12:15 AM

SGT Edward Thomas — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:15:05 -0400

Improvise, adapt, over come. Gunny Highway Heartbreak Ridge

Response by SGT Edward Thomas made Mar 19 at 2015 12:16 AM

SGT Edward Thomas — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:16:15 -0400

I said "Don't give the prick the satisfaction" sir. Gunny Highway to the Major. Heartbreak Ridge

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 12:50 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:50:12 -0400

Mine isn't from a military based movie. It's from 'Rocky Balboa' where Rocky is talking to his son about getting hit and moving forward.

'The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place. And I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winnin' is done. Now if you know what you're worth, go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers sayin' you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that.'

Response by LCpl Mark Lefler made Mar 19 at 2015 1:08 AM

LCpl Mark Lefler — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 01:08:03 -0400

Kaffee: I’m sorry, your time’s run out, what do we have for the losers judge? Well for our defendants, it’s a lifetime in exotic Fort Leavenworth. And for defense counsel Kaffee… that’s right… it’s a court martial! Yes, Johnny! After falsely accusing a highly decorated marine officer of conspiracy and perjury, Lieutenant Kaffee will have a long and prosperous career teaching typewriter maintenance at the Rocko Club School for Women. Thank you for playing “should or should we not, follow the advice of the galactically stupid?”

Response by CPL Dan McCready made Mar 19 at 2015 2:59 AM

CPL Dan McCready — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 02:59:19 -0400

This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it.. Heartbreak Ridge

Response by CPL Dan McCready made Mar 19 at 2015 3:02 AM

CPL Dan McCready — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 03:02:07 -0400

So we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We're mutants. There's something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us - we're soldiers. But we're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're ten and one!-John Winger, Stripes

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 4:28 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 04:28:19 -0400

From Apocalypse Now...Kurtz was the crazy COL that Sheen was sent to kill...

Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

Kurtz: [intercepted radio message] I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.

And from Martin, one I use all the time...for my sins, they gave me one...:
Willard: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 4:32 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 04:32:25 -0400

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 5:04 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 05:04:32 -0400

"YOU CAN'T SAY THAT HE CAN'T SAY THAT" Down Periscope

Response by MSG David Chappell made Mar 19 at 2015 7:44 AM

MSG David Chappell — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:44:05 -0400

Sandra: How do you know they'll be back?
Todd: Because they're soldiers, Sir. Like me.
Sandra: Why are they doing this?
Todd: They're obeying orders, Sir. It's their duty.
Sandra: Do you know how many there will be?
Todd: Seventeen more, Sir.
Sandra: Oh my God, you can't fight seventeen more on your own, you have to organize us. We're not cowards, we'll do as you tell us, we'll fight.
Todd: No.
Sandra: Why not?
Todd: Soldiers deserve soldiers, Sir.
Sandra: But one soldier, against seventeen. What are you going to do?
Todd: I'm going to kill them all, Sir.
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Response by MAJ Matthew Arnold made Mar 19 at 2015 7:49 AM

MAJ Matthew Arnold — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:49:23 -0400

"I'm just drinkin' a little wine, eatin' a little cheese, and soakin' up the rays'. Oddball, Kelly's Heros. (It is the setting that makes it so, beautiful, baby.)

Response by MAJ Matthew Arnold made Mar 19 at 2015 8:50 AM

MAJ Matthew Arnold — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:50:11 -0400

"I'm going to lead the patrol today, now If I can just find Gunny Highway." Lt. Ring, Heartbreak Ridge.

Response by MAJ Matthew Arnold made Mar 19 at 2015 9:10 AM

MAJ Matthew Arnold — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:10:48 -0400

Lt. Col. Thursday (Henry Fonda): This Lt. O'Rourke - are you by chance related?
RSM Michael O'Rourke (Ward Bond): Not by chance, sir, by blood. He's my son.
Lt. Col. Thursday: I see. How did he happen to get into West Point?
RSM Michael O'Rourke: It happened by presidential appointment, sir
Lt. Col. Thursday: Are you a former officer, O'Rourke?
RSM Michael O'Rourke: During the war, I was a major in the 69th New York regiment... The Irish Brigade, sir.
Lt. Col. Thursday: Still, it's been my impression that presidential appointments were restricted to sons of holders of the Medal of Honor.
RSM Michael O'Rourke: That is my impression, too, sir. Will that be all, sir?
--Fort Apache (1948)

Response by Sgt Richard Martin made Mar 19 at 2015 10:13 AM

Sgt Richard Martin — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:13:21 -0400

"I eat breakfast 300 yards away from 4,000 Cubans that are trained to kill me. So don't think that you can come here in your faggoty white uniform, flash a badge, and make me nervous."

Response by PO3 Steven Sherrill made Mar 19 at 2015 10:15 AM

PO3 Steven Sherrill — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:15:15 -0400

From "We Were Soldiers"

Joe Galloway: [Narrating; voice-over] In Saigon, Hal Moore's superiors congratulated him for killing over 1,800 enemy soldiers. Then ordered him to lead the Seventh Cavalry back into the valley of death. He led them and fought beside them for 235 more days. Some had families waiting. For others, their only family would be the men they bled beside. There were no bands, no flags, no Honor Guards to welcome them home. They went to war because their country ordered them to. But in the end, they fought not for their country or their flag, the fought for each other.

Response by Cpl Ray Frigerio made Mar 19 at 2015 10:24 AM

Cpl Ray Frigerio — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:24:55 -0400

aw, that's what I was gonna use!

Response by PO3 Steven Sherrill made Mar 19 at 2015 10:30 AM

PO3 Steven Sherrill — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:30:04 -0400

One of my favorites of all time is Heartbreak Ridge. There are so many funny one liners.

After firing at the feet of the recon platoon: This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it.

During training:

Lieutenant M.R. Ring: Morning, men! I thought I'd lead you through this exercise. Can't find Gunny Highway, though...
[Highway appears behind a makeshift building at the training site and sprays live bullet fire]
Lieutenant M.R. Ring: [dives for cover] Jesus Christ, what was that?
Lance Corporal Fragatti: Sir! That is the AK-47 Assault Rifle!
Profile: The preferred weapon of our enemy...
Collins: And it makes a distinctive sound when fired at us, Sir!
Lieutenant M.R. Ring: [still dazed] Yeah... I guess it does!

After a mishap at the range:

Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: [after Profile fell down, Highway speaks to him, then Profile runs off] What did you say to him?
Highway: I said "Don't give the prick the satisfaction," sir!

Response by Cpl Ray Frigerio made Mar 19 at 2015 10:31 AM

Cpl Ray Frigerio — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:31:24 -0400

Also fond of ;"Maybe, and I'm just spit balling here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago. Maybe we as officers have a responsibility to this country to see to that the men and women charged with its security are trained professionals. Yes, I'm certain that I read that somewhere once. And now I'm thinking, Col. Markinson, that your suggestion of transferring Santiago, while expeditious and certainly painless, might not be, in a matter of speaking, the American way. Santiago stays where he is. We're gonna train the lad! John , If young William doesn't make 4.6, 4.6 on his next proficiency and conduct reports, I'm going to hold you responsible. and then I'm going to kill you.."

Response by Cpl Ray Frigerio made Mar 19 at 2015 10:35 AM

Cpl Ray Frigerio — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:35:28 -0400

aw, that's what I was gonna use!

Response by Cpl Ray Frigerio made Mar 19 at 2015 10:41 AM

Cpl Ray Frigerio — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:41:49 -0400

Crapgame:' Hello Hogan. It's Crapgame. Yeah. I got got ya the scotch and the nylons ya wanted. Yeah do I ever fail ya? Never miss. Listen , I got a little favor to ask ya.....Will you stop cryin..? I haven't even asked ya yet!!! What the hells the matter wit you...?" Kelley's Heroes.

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 10:45 AM

PO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:45:32 -0400

'No bastard ever won the war by dying for his country. He won it by having the other bastard dying for his country' - PATTON (opening scene)

Response by GySgt David Andrews made Mar 19 at 2015 10:55 AM

GySgt David Andrews — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:55:43 -0400

I've smoked dope, chewed rope, danced, French romanced, fucked, farted, fought, shot the moon and drove big trucks. I've been to Janesville, Maine, Spain, Spokane, and Fort Wayne, seen three world fairs, been around the world twice, looked danger in the face, and seen goats fuck in the marketplace, but I ain't never seen no shit like the shit likes this!

Response by MSG Floyd Williams made Mar 19 at 2015 11:04 AM

MSG Floyd Williams — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:04:21 -0400

"What is the got da#$ hold up CPT Sobel?" From the movie "Band of Brothers"!

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 11:08 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:08:00 -0400

Best movie EVER....

Response by MAJ Chris Ballard made Mar 19 at 2015 11:20 AM

MAJ Chris Ballard — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:20:31 -0400

"Do you not know that in the service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?"

Response by SSG Steven Borders made Mar 19 at 2015 11:23 AM

SSG Steven Borders — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:23:13 -0400

Response by MSG Brad Sand made Mar 19 at 2015 12:25 PM

MSG Brad Sand — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:25:09 -0400

Some of my favorite quotes were anything coming out of CSM Basil Plumley's (Sam Elliot) mouth in We Were Soldiers. A few of them:

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I wonder what was going through Custer's mind when he realized that he'd led his men into a slaughter?

Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, Custer was a pussy. You ain't

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I think you oughta get yourself an M-16.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground.

Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: You can't take any pictures from down there, sonny.
[Galloway gets up and is handed a rifle]
Joseph Galloway: I'm a non-combatant.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Ain't no such thing today.

I also love the great speeches from the Lord of the Rings...especially those of King Théoden.

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together.
Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for ruin. And the red dawn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryy5U2mNTJU

Lord of The Rings Theoden's Speech and War

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 1:44 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:44:56 -0400

"Queen Gorgo: I am not here to represent Leonidas; his actions speak louder than my words ever could. I am here for all those voices which cannot be heard: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons - three hundred families that bleed for our rights, and for the very principles this room was built upon. We are at war, gentlemen. We must send the entire Spartan army to aid our king in the preservation of not just ourselves, but of our children. Send the army for the preservation of liberty. Send it for justice. Send it for law and order. Send it for reason. But most importantly, send our army for hope - hope that a king and his men have not been wasted to the pages of history - that their courage bonds us together, that we are made stronger by their actions, and that your choices today reflect their bravery."

Response by Cpl Carlos Olvera made Mar 19 at 2015 2:01 PM

Cpl Carlos Olvera — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:01:29 -0400

First I want to say that Sgt Fulgham-Blais, you are absolutely stunning in your profile pic.
Ok with that out of the way, my response.
"Jesus Age Christ. Pvt Pyle why is you foot locker unlocked?
Pvt Pyle, If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's an unlocked foot locker. You know that, don't you?
If it wasn't for dick heads like you, there wouldn't be thievery in this world, would there?"

Response by PO2 James Craig made Mar 19 at 2015 2:20 PM

PO2 James Craig — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:20:42 -0400

You want answers?
Kaffee: I think I'm entitled to.
Col. Jessep: *You want answers?*
Kaffee: *I want the truth!*
Col. Jessep: *You can't handle the truth!*
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 4:34 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:34:39 -0400

Stripes - Soldier Stories scene

Sergeant Hulka: "Okay, Mr. Push-ups, let's hear your story."
John Winger: "Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual. But now I know why I have always lost women to guys like you. I mean, it's not just the uniform. It's the stories that you tell. So much fun and imagination.
[points to the soldier next to him]
John Winger: Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy. But the two of us together? Forget it! I'm gonna go out on a limb here. I'm gonna volunteer my leadership to this platoon. An army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe. And Sergeant Hulka isn't always gonna be here to be that big toe for us. I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest, bestest buddy, and big toe... Sergeant Hulka."
[the soldiers start clapping]
Sergeant Hulka: "Well, okay, hotshot. We're gonna see what kind of soldier you are. You better hit those bunks, my little babies, or Sergeant Hulka with the big toe is gonna see how far he can stick it up your ass."

Response by PO1 Cleve Ikaika Waiwaiole made Mar 19 at 2015 5:30 PM

PO1 Cleve Ikaika Waiwaiole — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:30:16 -0400

"Private Pile whatever you do don't fall down, That would break my fucking heart! "Get the Fuck off my obstacle! Get the FUCK off my obstacle! Im going to rip your balls off so you can't contaminate the rest of the world!!!"

--Full Metal Jacket

Response by 1LT William Clardy made Mar 19 at 2015 5:55 PM

1LT William Clardy — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:55:59 -0400

Doc: We've been up on that hill ten times, and they still don't think we're serious

(From "Hamburger Hill")

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Mar 19 at 2015 6:19 PM

Cpl Jeff N. — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:19:26 -0400

Okay, this one is a little saucy... from Heartbreak Ridge. Clint Eastwood as Gunny Highway. I will clean it up a bit:

I been pumping pu#@y since Christ was a corporal. I can tell you, the best damned poo*#@ng I ever paid for was in Da Nang. The girls were checked out daily. And we got ourselves laid in a safe, orderly, proficient, military manner. That is until some suckhead writes home mama and says he dipped his wick in the Republic of South Vietnam. Then the shit hits the fan. A committee of congressmen who asshole to asshole couldn't make a beer fart in a whirlwind, start telling your basic-ass-in-the-grass, Marine " No more short time ". We responded in true Marine Corps fashion. We salute, do an about face, double time back to the boom-boom garbage dump where we get the clap, and the drip, and the crabs and a generally poor attitude towards the female of the species. War is hell, boy. That's a fact!"

Response by 1LT William Clardy made Mar 19 at 2015 6:43 PM

1LT William Clardy — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:43:17 -0400

Patton: "Rommel... You magnificent bastard! I read your book!"

Response by SGT Marika Waiters made Mar 19 at 2015 8:12 PM

SGT Marika Waiters — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:12:39 -0400

Best quote EVER. Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men:" "You can't handle the truth!" I used to be MI so I really know how true that statement is!

Response by PFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 8:31 PM

PFC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:31:18 -0400

"Boy, I am two seconds from being on you like white on rice in a glass of milk on a paper plate held by an albino in a snowstorm. I'm gonna put my foot so far up your ass, the water on my knee will quench your thirst." -Maj. Payne

Silly I know, but kids think that is what I went through.
If I did I wouldn't have learned much!

Response by SGT Jim Z. made Mar 19 at 2015 8:37 PM

SGT Jim Z. — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:37:33 -0400

https://youtu.be/5j2F4VcBmeo

A Few Good Man "You Can't Handle the Truth"

Colonel Nathan R. Jessep Addresses the Court on "Code Red"

Response by SGT Jim Z. made Mar 19 at 2015 8:39 PM

SGT Jim Z. — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:39:28 -0400

https://youtu.be/71Lft6EQh-Y - Full Metal Jacket

full metal jacket intro monologue

Response by LT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 19 at 2015 8:49 PM

LT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:49:38 -0400

this isn't from a movie, and it isn't a single quote, but I'm sure this conversation is a crowd favorite as it's one of mine:

Richard Winters: These men have been through the toughest training the Army has to offer, under the worst possible circumstances, and they volunteered for it.
'Buck' Compton: Christ, Dick, I was just shooting craps with them.
Richard Winters: You know why they volunteered? Because they knew that the man in the foxhole next to them would be the best, not some draftee who's going to get them killed.
'Buck' Compton: Are you ticked because they like me? Because I'm spending time to get to know my soldiers? I mean, c'mon, you've been with them for two years? I've been here for six days.
Richard Winters: You were gambling, Buck.
'Buck' Compton: So what? Soldiers do that. I don't deserve a reprimand for it.
Richard Winters: What if you'd won?
'Buck' Compton: What?
Richard Winters: What if you'd won? Don't ever put yourself in the position where you can take from these men.

Response by MSgt Harry Thomas Sr. made Mar 19 at 2015 9:14 PM

MSgt Harry Thomas Sr. — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:14:44 -0400

You can't handle the truth! Lol.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 20 at 2015 12:58 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:58:13 -0400

Ronald Spiers from "Band of Brothers

"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."

Response by MAJ Chris Ballard made Mar 20 at 2015 9:15 AM

MAJ Chris Ballard — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:15:43 -0400

Yossarian: Ok, let me see if I've got this straight. In order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy. And I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying.

Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: You got it, that's Catch-22.

Yossarian: Whoo... That's some catch, that Catch-22.

Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: It's the best there is

Response by MAJ Chris Ballard made Mar 20 at 2015 9:35 AM

MAJ Chris Ballard — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:35:30 -0400

Hawkeye: "We're headin' west to Kan-Tuck-ee."

Maj. Heyward: "There is a war on! How is it you are headed west?"

Hawkeye: "Well, we kinda face to the north then real sublte-like turn left."

-- Last of the Mohicans. This movie forever changed how I refer to my home state.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 20 at 2015 11:50 AM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:50:32 -0400

Private Jackson
Saving Private Ryan
"...Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust..."

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 20 at 2015 11:57 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:57:41 -0400

Sergeant Major Basil Plumley "what are you a fucking weatherman now"

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 20 at 2015 2:28 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:28:11 -0400

From Band Of Brothers
[Translating a speech a German General is giving to his men after they all surrendered]

Liebgott: Men, it's been a long war, it's been a tough war. You've fought bravely, proudly for your country. You're a special group. You've found in one another a bond, that exists only in combat, among brothers. You've shared foxholes, held each other in dire moments. You've seen death and suffered together. I'm proud to have served with each and every one of you. You all deserve long and happy lives in peace.

Response by SGM Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 20 at 2015 2:40 PM

SGM Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:40:41 -0400

When someone around me is hyperventilating over something easy/irrelevant: "you never go full retard"...

When that someone redeems themselves: "to the [your] credit, [you've] eased up on the retard throttle"...

- "Kirk Lazarus", Robert Downing Jr. (Tropic Thunder)

Response by SPC David Hannaman made Mar 20 at 2015 3:36 PM

SPC David Hannaman — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:36:14 -0400

I humbly submit the "Nurturing" scene from Major Payne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOa7sLXv_bY

Nurturing

This is how you take care of a child's "boogie man" in the closet.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 20 at 2015 5:04 PM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:04:07 -0400

Blackhawk Down
I don't know who said it but...

Ranger by himself: "Come to me!"

Ranger with his buddy: "Fuck you, come to us!"

Response by Cpl Brett Wagner made Mar 20 at 2015 7:55 PM

Cpl Brett Wagner — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:55:59 -0400

Heartbreak Ridge - Gunny Highway in response to a very dumb thing by a very dumb Major.

"Come on, Profile. You can make it. Don't give the prick the satisfaction."

Response by Cpl Brett Wagner made Mar 20 at 2015 8:14 PM

Cpl Brett Wagner — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:14:01 -0400

Jack Nicholson always plays a great crazy man. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Easy Rider, A Few Good Men, Anger Management etc.

Response by SGT Beau Thomas made Mar 20 at 2015 8:31 PM

SGT Beau Thomas — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:31:12 -0400

The Outlaw Jose Wales

(Lige, speaking to fellow bounty hunters) He's mean as a rattler, and twice as fast with them pistols.
(Abe to Lige)You pull his teeth, he's harmless as a heel hound. Always wanted to face down one of these pistol fighters they raise all the fuss about. Only way to handle them.

Response by 1LT Charles Jasper made Mar 20 at 2015 10:47 PM

1LT Charles Jasper — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:47:38 -0400

Hey, we started a whole new week! It's Monday! - BHD

It reminds me of the dedication to the mission and optimism that seems to, through all the BS, be inherent in the US military.

Response by SGT Craig Roberge made Mar 21 at 2015 1:00 AM

SGT Craig Roberge — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 01:00:37 -0400

"You can't handle the truth"

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 21 at 2015 3:28 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:28:31 -0400

"Broken Arrow"

Response by SGT Darla Jarvie made Mar 21 at 2015 4:29 PM

SGT Darla Jarvie — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:29:55 -0400

Killed all and let God sort'em out.

Response by 1LT William Clardy made Mar 21 at 2015 6:06 PM

1LT William Clardy — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:06:21 -0400

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Pvt. Hook: "Rourke's Drift... It'd take an Irishman to give his name to a rotten stinking middle o' nowhere hole like this."
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Pvt. Williams: "He's even got a voice like a corporal!"

Pvt. Hitch: "Yeah, sort of like a female hippopotamus in labor."
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Lieutenant Bromhead: "You mean your only plan is to stand behind a few feet of mealie bags and wait for the attack?"
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Lieutenant Chard: "The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day."

Lieutenant Bromhead: "Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast."
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Lieutenant Chard: "You didn't say a thing to help, Bromhead."

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: "Well, when you take command, old boy, you're on your own. One of the first things that the general - my grandfather - ever taught me."
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Pvt. Cole: "Why is it us? Why us?"

Colour Sergeant Bourne: "Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us."
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Lieutenant Bromhead: "Sixty! We dropped at least 60, wouldn't you say?"

Adendorff: "That leaves only 3,940."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI

Zulu - Final Attack

Zulu (1964) Cy Endfield, Director Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Michael Caine

Response by PO2 Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 21 at 2015 10:03 PM

PO2 Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:03:46 -0400

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning, (inhales exhales) smells like victory"

Response by COL Jon Thompson made Mar 21 at 2015 10:26 PM

COL Jon Thompson — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:26:44 -0400

"I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know." Oddball in Kelly's Heroes.

Response by PFC Robert Delaney made Mar 21 at 2015 10:49 PM

PFC Robert Delaney — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:49:53 -0400

Pvt.Pyle, " I am in a world of shit".

Response by SSG Keven Lahde made Mar 22 at 2015 1:04 AM

SSG Keven Lahde — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 01:04:28 -0400

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Where in the hell are you from anyway, private?
Private: Sir, Texas, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy dog shit, Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, private Cowboy! And you don't much look like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down.

I thought this one was too funny.

Response by SSG Keven Lahde made Mar 22 at 2015 1:20 AM

SSG Keven Lahde — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 01:20:21 -0400

“Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

Response by PO1 John Meyer, CPC made Mar 22 at 2015 2:26 PM

PO1 John Meyer, CPC — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:26:40 -0400

I've got a few...

From GGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDD MORNING VIETAM!!!!!

"Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP."

Or from Full Metal Jacket:

"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!"

"Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!"

"Private Pyle, your ass looks like about a hundred and fifty pounds of chewed bubblegum!"

I guess you're getting that I love Gunny Heartman.

Heartbreak Ridge:

Judge Zane: Thank you for your testimony, Officer Reese. Sergeant Highway, drunk and disorderly. Fighting in a public establishment. Urinating on a police vehicle?

Highway: Well, it seemed like the thing to do, sir.

Highway: My name's Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass that all of you numbnuts put together.

Response by PO1 John Meyer, CPC made Mar 22 at 2015 2:54 PM

PO1 John Meyer, CPC — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:54:26 -0400

From American Sniper:

There are three types of people in this world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. Some people prefer to believe that evil doesn't exist in the world, and if it ever darkened their doorstep, they wouldn't know how to protect themselves. Those are the sheep. Then you've got predators, who use violence to prey on the weak. They're the wolves. And then there are those blessed with the gift of aggression, an overpowering need to protect the flock. These men are the rare breed who live to confront the wolf. They are the sheepdog.

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Mar 22 at 2015 2:57 PM

Cpl Jeff N. — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:57:29 -0400

Here is an old one but a good one from First Blood

Trautman: You did everything to make this private war happen. You've done enough damage. This mission is over, Rambo. Do you understand me? This mission is over! Look at them out there! Look at them! If you won't end this now, they will kill you. Is that what you want? It's over Johnny. It's over!

Rambo: Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!

Trautman: It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo. It's all in the past now.

Rambo: For *you*! For me civilian life is nothing! In the field we had a code of honor, you watch my back, I watch yours. Back here there's nothing!

Trautman: You're the last of an elite group, don't end it like this.

Rambo: Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job *parking cars*!

Response by SPC Richard White made Mar 22 at 2015 4:24 PM

SPC Richard White — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:24:06 -0400

"Charlie Don't surf" " I love the smell of Napalm in the morning"-Apocalypse now "Best Job I ever had"-Fury

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 22 at 2015 6:09 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:09:37 -0400

Best Job I ever Had

-Fury

Hands down it was the best job I ever had!

Response by CPL Jason Derrickson made Mar 22 at 2015 7:23 PM

CPL Jason Derrickson — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:23:31 -0400

He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispin's day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

Response by CW3 Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 22 at 2015 10:23 PM

CW3 Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 22:23:56 -0400

Dirty Dozen

Major Reisman, "I'd say this confirms the suspicion I've had for some time"

General, "Think we might share that suspicion, Major?"

Major Reisman, "Yes, Sir I think you should. Since I'll have to assume we are over here to try to win the war. I don't think it would pay to advertise the fact that one of the men we are working for has to be a raving lunatic!"

Not Quite Military but applies to an invasion, "They Live"

Roddy Roddy Piper, "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubble gum..."

Response by SFC Charles S. made Mar 23 at 2015 1:56 AM

SFC Charles S. — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 01:56:22 -0400

“War is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought.” – Dr. Strangelove (1964)

“When I go home people will ask me, ‘Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?’ You know what I’ll say? I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you, and that’s it. That’s all it is.” – Black Hawk Down (2001)

Response by SSG Gerhard S. made Mar 23 at 2015 2:41 PM

SSG Gerhard S. — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:41:15 -0400

From "The Patriot" Mel Gibson

Charlotte: You have done nothing for which you should be ashamed.

Benjamin Martin: I have done nothing. And for that I am ashamed.

Response by SSG Gerhard S. made Mar 23 at 2015 2:46 PM

SSG Gerhard S. — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:46:42 -0400

From Braveheart
"You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"

— William Wallace

Response by SSG Gerhard S. made Mar 23 at 2015 2:49 PM

SSG Gerhard S. — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:49:21 -0400

From Braveheart
Young William: I can fight.

Malcolm Wallace: I know. I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men.

Response by SSG Gerhard S. made Mar 23 at 2015 2:53 PM

SSG Gerhard S. — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:53:46 -0400

From Gladiator

Proximo: Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men.

Response by SSG Gerhard S. made Mar 23 at 2015 3:07 PM

SSG Gerhard S. — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:07:15 -0400

To lighten it up a little.... the "light grenade" scene from Mom and Dad Save the world

Last soldier: "I think we're going to need reinforcements here"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCeD2gF9jUo

Light Grenade

Light Grenade scene from Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 9:46 AM

CSM Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:46:19 -0400

I don't see any Major Payne

Major Benson Winifred Payne: [on the rained-out obstacle course] Move it, you turds! You'll get no sympathy from me! You want sympathy, look in the dictionary between shit and syphilis!

Major Payne: Maybe what he need is for you to pop your titty out his mouth and let the boy grow up.
Emily: Excuse me, what did you say?
Major Payne: I didn't stutter, I said pop-your-titty-out-his-mouth AND STOP BABYING HIM.
Emily: I don't call it babying, I call it nurturing.
Major Payne: And I call it neutering.
Emily: And I call you an insecure, overbearing, psychopathic, edictorial, ego maniacal, frigid lunatic ASSHOLE!
Major Payne: I ain't frigid.

Major Payne: From now on, my little group of shaved scrotum sacks, you will walk like me, talk like me, eat like me, and until you win those games, you will be BALD like me.

Major Payne: Here I got somethin' for ya. [puts a piece of metal in Emily's hand]
Emily: What is it?
Major Payne: A bullet. It's somethin' special. It's from my heart.
Emily: Really? Well, where did you get it?
Major Payne: From my heart, left ventricle; took it out myself with a field knife.

Response by SPC Neil Hood made Mar 24 at 2015 10:33 AM

SPC Neil Hood — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:33:03 -0400

SGT Private RallyPoint Member, Good thought provoking article. Thank you. Many Germans carry unnecessary shame for Hitler and his agendas. I think the film "Fury" was great at showing how savage even Americans had could become. WWI and WWII were pure nightmare. The flower of French youth erased in 4 years 1914-1918. Soviet women age 18 were marrying Soviet men in their 50s in the aftermath of WWII because multiple generations were erased.

I think more focus needs to be spent on the human toll of the 20th century.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 11:54 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:54:47 -0400

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: That's what all these cripples down at the VA talk about: Jesus this and Jesus that, have I found Jesus yet? They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening and if I found Jesus, I'd get to walk beside him in the kingdom of Heaven. Did you hear what I said? WALK beside him in the kingdom of Heaven! Well kiss my crippled ass. God is listening? What a crock of shit.
Forrest Gump: I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan.
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Yeah? Well... before you go, why don't you get your ass down to the corner and get us another bottle of ripple?
Forrest Gump: Yes, sir.

Forrest Gump: So what are you doing in New York, Lt. Dan?
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: I am living off the government tit! Sucking it dry.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 12:00 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:00:33 -0400

I'll Be Watching You:
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 12:02 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:02:51 -0400

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: As soon as your bunks are done, I want you two turds to clean the head.
Joker and Cowboy: Sir, yes, sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I want that head so sanitary and squared-away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in and take a dump.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 12:08 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:08:08 -0400

Men Without Fear:

Private Joker: Graduation is only a few days away, and the recruits of Platoon 3092 are salty. They are ready to eat their own guts and ask for seconds. The drill instructors are proud to see that we are growing beyond their control. The Marine Corps does not want robots. The Marine Corps wants killers. The Marine Corps wants to build indestructible men, men without fear.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 12:12 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:12:11 -0400

[Forrest being interviewed on the Dick Cavett show]
Forrest Gump: In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
John Lennon: No possessions?
Forrest Gump: And in China they never go to church.
John Lennon: No religion too?
Dick Cavett: Oh. Hard to imagine.
John Lennon: Well it's easy if you try, Dick.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 12:29 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:29:52 -0400

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Full Metal Jacket
If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit. Because I am hard you will not like me, but the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 12:53 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:53:43 -0400

Zab: [narrating] Big Red One

By now we'd come to look at all replacements as dead men who temporarily had the use of the arms and legs. The came and went so fast and so regularly that sometimes we didn't even learn their names. Truth is, after a while, we sort of avoided gettin' to know them.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 1:41 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:41:31 -0400

"I've eaten a river of liver and an ocean of fish! I've eaten so much fish, I'm ready to grow gills! I've eaten so much liver, I can only make love if I'm smothered in bacon and onions!"

Hawkeye Pierce
"Adam's Rib"

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 1:43 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:43:40 -0400

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 1:45 PM

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Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 1:48 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:48:31 -0400

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 1:52 PM

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Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 2:14 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:14:15 -0400

[imitating Walter Cronkite]
Adrian Cronauer: I just want to begin by saying to Roosevelt E. Roosevelt, what it is, what it shall be, what it was. The weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy with a pissy weather front coming down from the north. Basically, it's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 2:45 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:45:24 -0400

This part pisses me off. I haven't seen the movie, but I have read some of the quotes.

Newsman: [trying to interview GIs returning to base after a hard day of fighting] Hey, word down at division is you guys can't take this hill. What do you have to say about that? In fact Senator Kennedy insists you guys haven't got a chance at all.
Sgt. Frantz: [glares at Newsman for a few seconds] You really like this shit, don't you? It's your job, a story, wait here like a fucking vulture for someone to die so you can take a picture.
Newsman: [becoming angry] It's my job...
Sgt. Frantz: I got more respect for those little bastards up on the hill. They take a side, you just take pictures. You probably don't even do your own fucking!
Newsman: What?
Sgt. Frantz: You listen to me. We're gonna take this fucking hill, Newsman. And if I catch you on top taking pictures of any of my people, I will blow your fucking head off. You haven't earned a right to be here. *You got that?*

Response by TSgt Richard Wheeler made Mar 24 at 2015 3:03 PM

TSgt Richard Wheeler — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:03:41 -0400

Why aren't you shooting?
Their not shooting at us.
How can you tell?
When the bullets wiz by then they are shooting at us.
(Bullet wizs by)
Now their shooting at us.

I know it's something like that from Blackhawk down.

Response by SSG Keven Lahde made Mar 24 at 2015 7:59 PM

SSG Keven Lahde — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:59:37 -0400

"I've got a soft spot for Klinger. He looks a little like my son, and he dresses a lot like my wife."
Col. Potter

Response by SSG Keven Lahde made Mar 24 at 2015 8:03 PM

SSG Keven Lahde — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:16 -0400

"Know this. You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer."
Charles Emerson Winchester III

Response by SSG Keven Lahde made Mar 24 at 2015 8:03 PM

SSG Keven Lahde — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:32 -0400

"I'd sooner share my toothbrush with a Democrat"
Charles Emerson Winchester III

Response by SSG Keven Lahde made Mar 24 at 2015 8:07 PM

SSG Keven Lahde — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:07:00 -0400

If you want a drink, sir, -- compliments Henry Blake -- brandy, scotch, vodka. And for your convenience, all in the same bottle. -- Radar

Response by SSG Keven Lahde made Mar 24 at 2015 8:09 PM

SSG Keven Lahde — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:09:04 -0400

Don't worry, I've never lost a patient. I never lose anything. Have you seen my stethoscope? -- Hawkeye

Response by LTJG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2015 9:17 PM

LTJG Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:17:59 -0400

"You Cant handle the truth" (Same movie you describe)

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 25 at 2015 10:00 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:00:16 -0400

It's a newer movie, "Unbroken."
If you haven't seen it, oh, you should.

"If you can take it, you can make it"

"A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory"

"We beat them by making it to the end"

"He used to say that I was better than I am.
Another prisoner: Who says you’re not"

Response by SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. made Mar 25 at 2015 10:11 AM

SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:11:39 -0400

Bruce Willis (as General William Devereaux) in Siege .. its actually a bit of a conversation and not a quote ... but ...

Chief of Staff: General?

General William Devereaux: The Army is a broadsword, not a scalpel. Trust me, senator, you do not want the Army in an American city.

Chief of Staff: But hypothetically... how long would it take you to deploy?

General William Devereaux: You know we can't go in until the President invokes the War Powers Act.

Chief of Staff: I understand that, General. Let's assume, for a moment, that the order has been given.

General William Devereaux: Twelve hours after the President gives the order we can be on the ground. One light infantry division of 10,700 men, elements of the Rapid Deployment Force, Special Forces, Delta, APCs, helicopters, tanks, and of course the ubiquitous M16A1 assault rifle. A humble enough weapon until you see it in the hands of a man outside your local bowling alley or 7-11. It will be noisy. It will be scary, and it will not be mistaken for a VFW parade.

Army General: I wanna remind you, General Devereaux does not speak for official Army policy. A police function has become accepted as our role in Haiti and Somalia.

General William Devereaux: Make no mistake. We will hunt down the enemy. We will find the enemy. And we will kill the enemy. No card-carrying member of the ACLU is more deadset against it than I am. Which is why I urge you - I *implore* you - do not consider this as an option.

Response by SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. made Mar 25 at 2015 11:18 AM

SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:18:00 -0400

2nd place..

Sam Elliott (as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley) in We Were Soldiers

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I think you oughta get yourself an M-16.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground.

Response by SSG Richard Reilly made Mar 26 at 2015 12:57 PM

SSG Richard Reilly — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:57:57 -0400

'You see Danny, I can deal with the bullets, and the bombs, and the blood. I don't want money, and I don't want medals. What I do want is for you to stand there in that faggoty white uniform and with your Harvard mouth extend me some fucking courtesy. You gotta ask me nicely. '
Few Good Men

Side note will someone get COL Jessup a Mtn Dew I mean he ordered that Code Red.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Apr 4 at 2015 4:30 AM

PO1 John Miller — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 04:30:32 -0400

"I'm gonna rip your balls off. So you cannot contaminate the rest of the world!"

Response by SGT Michael Hamrac, MBA, MRP, GRI, REALTOR® made Apr 4 at 2015 5:07 AM

SGT Michael Hamrac, MBA, MRP, GRI, REALTOR® — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 05:07:29 -0400

In Platoon, when Sgt O'Neill requested leave before an imminent fire fight...SSgt Barnes says, "Everybody's gotta die sometime Red". The look on that ass-kissing O'Neill's face was classic.

Response by MSgt Michelle Mondia made Apr 4 at 2015 11:57 AM

MSgt Michelle Mondia — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:57:57 -0400

"If you got it on tape then that's what I said...so yeah, I said it, Waste the mother fuckers." Samuel L, Rules of Engagement

Response by CW4 Larry Curtis made Apr 5 at 2015 9:12 PM

CW4 Larry Curtis — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:12:30 -0400

I love the smell of napalm in the morning!

Response by CPT Ahmed Faried made Apr 5 at 2015 9:17 PM

CPT Ahmed Faried — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:17:14 -0400

hot damn! That quote always get me! SGT Private RallyPoint Member good topic. Unfortunately I have too many favorites to pick just the one.

Response by SGT Steve Oakes made Apr 15 at 2015 5:02 AM

SGT Steve Oakes — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:02:08 -0400

Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher. A civilian Cop asks him what it was like being a criminal investigator in the Army. He replies , ( paraphrased) Its just like what you do except, everyone I investigated was a trained killer.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 27 at 2015 1:49 AM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:49:14 -0400

"Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window. When I go home people'll ask me, 'Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?' You know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you, and that's it. That's all it is." -Hoot, Blackhawks Down-

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 27 at 2015 2:03 AM

SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 02:03:52 -0400

Improvise! Overcome! Adapt!

Response by SFC Maury Gonzalez made May 5 at 2015 10:23 PM

SFC Maury Gonzalez — Tue, 05 May 2015 22:23:06 -0400

"Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups"-lead terrorist Under siege part 2

Response by Capt Christian D. Orr made May 10 at 2015 2:59 AM

Capt Christian D. Orr — Sun, 10 May 2015 02:59:37 -0400

So many great lines from "Full Metal Jacket" but I'll start with this one for now:

"I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reacharound. I'll be watching you."--Gunny Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) to Private Cowboy (Arliss Howard)

Response by SPC Charles Brown made May 10 at 2015 3:14 AM

SPC Charles Brown — Sun, 10 May 2015 03:14:37 -0400

I give Sergeant Alvin York:

Alvin: Well I'm as much agin' killin' as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin' around me... I figured them guns was killin' hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't nothin' anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done.
Maj. Buxton: Do you mean to tell me that you did it to save lives?
Alvin: Yes sir, that was why.
Maj. Buxton: [amazed] Well, York, what you've just told me is the most extraordinary thing of all!

Response by SGT Christopher Churilla made Jul 20 at 2015 3:48 PM

SGT Christopher Churilla — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:48:25 -0400

"The mission is man." - Saving Private Ryan

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 9 at 2016 9:34 AM

MSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 09:34:31 -0400

Kelly's Heroes:
Oddball: We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days.

Response by PV2 Alonzo Symalla made Mar 3 at 2017 11:10 AM

PV2 Alonzo Symalla — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:10:31 -0500

"When we go into battle, we play music, real loud. It...soothes us" Oddball, Kelly's Hero's.

Response by SSgt Boyd Welch made Mar 3 at 2017 11:17 AM

SSgt Boyd Welch — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:17:56 -0500

[addressing his troops]
Maximus: Fratres!
[cavalry addresses Maximus]
Maximus: Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead!
[cavalry laughs]
Maximus: Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

Movie: Gladiator- Maximus addressing his troops before the battle..

Response by Nelson Ormsby made Apr 24 at 2017 4:06 PM

Nelson Ormsby — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:06:08 -0400

Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, 'What did you do in the great World War II,' you won't have to say, 'Well... I shoveled shit in Louisiana.' "

Old Horse Cavalryman, or any of CavDad's Troopers having done a JRTC rotation at Ft. Polk, know first hand what George C. Scott was recreating in the 1970 movie Patton, based on the GEN's own address to 3rd Army’s 6th Armored Division on May 31, 1944

Response by LT Richard Mondak made Apr 30 at 2017 11:34 PM

LT Richard Mondak — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 23:34:45 -0400

"IMPROVISE, ADAPT, OVERCOME!"
Heartbreak Ridge

Response by SGT Jeff Lyles made Jun 26 at 2017 3:39 AM

SGT Jeff Lyles — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:39:56 -0400

"From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered, ---
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother..."
King Henry V, talking to his men before The Battle of Agincourt: 25 October, 1415. Made into numerous movies and plays; written by William Shakespeare.

Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Jun 26 at 2017 3:47 AM

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:47:39 -0400

I have No Idea where it came from but it is Part of Me. "Patience My Ass, I want to Kill Something"

Response by SSgt Ryan Sylvester made Jun 26 at 2017 12:16 PM

SSgt Ryan Sylvester — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:16:02 -0400

"I have a letter written a long time ago to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston, so bear with me.

'Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement by the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five... sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln.'

That boy is alive. We are going to find him. And we are going to get him the hell out of there."

Who even writes like that anymore? And, at a close second (and yes, I know it was more about the passing of the 13th and not primarily about the Civil War, but it was still a great movie and the time was defined in and by that war, so I count it):

"I decided that the Constitution gives me war powers, but no one knows just exactly what those powers are. Some say they don't exist. I don't know. I decided I needed them to exist to uphold my oath to protect the Constitution, which I decided meant that I could take the rebels' slaves from them as property confiscated in war. That might recommend to suspicion that I agree with the rebs that their slaves are property in the first place. Of course I don't, never have, I'm glad to see any man free, and if calling a man property, or war contraband, does the trick... why I caught at the opportunity. Now here's where it gets truly slippery. I use the law allowing for the seizure of property in a war knowing it applies only to the property of governments and citizens of belligerent nations. But the South ain't a nation, that's why I can't negotiate with 'em. If in fact the Negroes are property according to law, have I the right to take the rebels' property from 'em, if I insist they're rebels only, and not citizens of a belligerent country? And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't our actual Southern states in rebellion but only the rebels living in those states, the laws of which states remain in force. The laws of which states remain in force. That means, that since it's states' laws that determine whether Negroes can be sold as slaves, as property - the Federal government doesn't have a say in that, least not yet - then Negroes in those states are slaves, hence property, hence my war powers allow me to confiscate 'em as such, so I confiscated 'em. But if I'm a respecter of states' laws, how then can I legally free 'em with my Proclamation, as I done, unless I'm cancelling states' laws? I felt the war demanded it, my oath demanded it. I felt right with myself, and I hoped it was legal to do it, I'm hoping still. Two years ago I proclaimed these people emancipated, 'then, hence forward and forever free.' But let's say the courts decide I had no authority to do it. They might well decide that. Say there's no amendment abolishing slavery. Say it's after the war, and I can no longer use my war powers to just ignore the courts' decisions, like I sometimes felt I had to do. Might those people I freed be ordered back into slavery? That's why I'd like to get the Thirteenth Amendment through the House and on its way to ratification by the states, wrap the whole slavery thing up, forever and aye. As soon as I'm able. Now. End of this month. And I'd like you to stand behind me. Like my cabinet's most always done."

Kind of a reminder that sometimes, even the greatest and most just measures of our current laws required a heavier hand and authoritarian-like approach to overcome the injustice and inequity of ironclad legalities set from unenlightened, draconian ideologues.

Response by SCPO Ysmael Ramos made Jun 26 at 2017 2:32 PM

SCPO Ysmael Ramos — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:32:30 -0400

You can't handle the truth.

Response by SGT James Hunsinger made Jun 29 at 2017 1:02 PM

SGT James Hunsinger — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:02:56 -0400

"When I go home people'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?" You know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you, and that's it. That's all it is."

-Hoot "Blackhawk Down

Response by GySgt Terrence Fry made Jul 20 at 2017 5:56 PM

GySgt Terrence Fry — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:56:52 -0400

"Now, they'll respect the rank. But God knows- they won't respect the man, unless he earns it. And the loyalty of men is always hard to earn." General Bache "Taps"

Response by Cpl Ray Frigerio made Dec 10 at 2017 3:35 PM

Cpl Ray Frigerio — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:35:17 -0500

Private Joker: I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!

Response by Cpl Scott McCarroll made Dec 10 at 2017 3:53 PM

Cpl Scott McCarroll — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:53:19 -0500

You can't handle the truth from a few good men