Bullshit! Looks like you could suck a golf ball though a garden hose!
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?
This is one of my favorite movie quotes of all time.