Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You’re part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That’s what we’re here for.
But the Marine Corps lives forever.
And that means YOU live forever.
The German dub doesn’t do too bad.
How does Richard Attenborough in *Guns at Batasi *compare?
They’re both shy, squeaking, whispering little pussywimps compared to Michael Palin.
I don’t know what the status is on cursing, but I think the notable bit about this in the Canadian forces now is that they can’t chew out on individual, but can insult the group as a whole. This results in them looking right at one person, while saying, “All your your guys’s drills are disgusting! Get those arms up!” etc to get around the rules. It’s comedic at first, but eventually the effect is no different from before the rule was put in place, which completely defeats the purpose of the rule.
This character impresses me as a martinet marionette with the strings pulled by a manufacturer of war materiel. (“War is good business, invest your son”)
…for the record, is it okay to use straight slurs to scream at people? Y’could probably make that work. “You’re the most miserable clump of slack-jawed breeders I’ve ever seen! Fifty, now!”
Who knows? I know is that what you listed there is a politically correct, pussified version of: "I am hard, so you will not like me! But the more you hate me the more you will learn! There is no racial bigotry here! I do not like niggers, wops, kykes or greasers! To me you are ALL equally worthless!
All right, all right…once the trainees leave boot camp, do they get similar treatment from their platoon sergeant?
Personally approved by the Gunny:
When I was in advanced training my instructor used this line on me.
Instructor: “Goddammit Gunner, you load ammo like old people fuck!”
Me: “What? Like, very sexily?”
Instructor: “I…wh…the fuck, man?”
Did he then splutter, “What is your major malfunction, Gunner?”
My father always finished the line when he used it on me.
“You cut grass like old people fuck; slow and sloppy!”
Fuck you, Sarge. I was drafted. In less than two years I’ll be out of here and you’ll be nothing but a bad memory.
Me too. But for decades, if you passed the physical and you wanted to live your life as a man and an American, there was no getting around him. Every coach and teacher of boys, every boss and leader of men was essentially summed up in the DI or DS. He was the national rite of passage.
And I am completely unimpressed with the stupidity of you and “Beware of Doug” for spewing out this mean spirited garbage about the greatest people in the world. Move to the worker’s paradise of North Korea if you really feel that way.
This is totally inappropriate for Cafe Society, Jim’s Son. Don’t do it again.
Did your parents have any children that lived? You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece.
That name sounds like royalty! Are you royalty? Do you suck dicks?
Another fine movie is The Siege of Firebase Gloria, in which Ermey plays Sergeant Major Hafner. In one scene, he walks into camp, carrying the severed heads of two comrades (who had been killed and mutilated by the Viet Cong):