# I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 3, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-gunnery-sergeant-hartman-your-senior-drill-instructor/611648 "2012-02-03T14:11:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-gunnery-sergeant-hartman-your-senior-drill-instructor/611648/141 "2012-09-18T13:24:41Z")

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Bullshit! Looks like you could suck a golf ball though a garden hose!

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**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-gunnery-sergeant-hartman-your-senior-drill-instructor/611648/142 "2012-09-19T07:38:41Z")

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Um…

You all do remember that he gets fragged, right?

Call me old-fashioned, but I think the opportunity to chew out recruits in the most disgusting ways imaginable should be be tempered by the prospect of one of them _killing you_. (Even more so because it invalidates the whole they’ll-take-all-your-crap-and-realize-you-were-right-all-along thing.)

And it was Pyle, of all people. That’s like King Kong being laid low by a stray banana peel. Pathetic.

And for my money, this has always been my favorite exchange:

Door Gunner: Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime.  
Private Joker: Why should we do a story about you?  
Door Gunner: ‘Cuz I’m so fuckin’ good. I done got me 157 dead gooks killed. Plus 50 water buffalo, too. Them’s all confirmed!  
Private Joker: Any women or children?  
Door Gunner: Sometimes.  
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?  
Door Gunner: Easy, ya just don’t lead 'em so much! Ain’t war hell?

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**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-gunnery-sergeant-hartman-your-senior-drill-instructor/611648/143 "2012-09-20T16:26:09Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> You had best unfuck yourself, or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!

This is one of my favorite movie quotes of all time.

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