Training waived, location approval, Just like that, you’re officially in the Peace Corps.
If Patton were alive, he would slap your face!
Lighten up, Francis.
Then I shall faint for you, dear Francis.
She doesn’t need an ambulance. She’s drunk.
Susan: A real woman could stop you from drinking.
Arthur: It’d have to be a real BIG woman
That’s a problem, isn’t it. That nice young man who drinks and a high class young lady and how did she ever get mixed up with him? And why does he drink? And why doesn’t he stop? That’s my novel, Nat.
From the beginning you hated the Navy. And then you thought up this whole idea. And you managed to keep your skirts nice, and starched, and clean, even in the court martial. Steve Maryk will always be remembered as a mutineer. But you, you’ll publish your novel, you’ll make a million bucks, you’ll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you’ll live with your conscience, if you have any. Now here’s to the *real* author of “The *Caine* Mutiny.” Here’s TO you, Mr. Keefer.
No, I like all you Navy boys. Every time we’ve gotta go someplace to fight, you fellas always give us a ride.
‘Maggot’ this, ‘maggot’ that… Marines are really assholes, you know that? It takes a certain kind of a sadistic temperament to be a Marine.
- Time to get up and give this place the goin’ over. It looks like the marines have landed.
- Well, that bunch last night was high enough to take over the marines and the navy!
Oh, the Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans. (Beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans.)
- I had a rifle company in the 1st Battalion and 7th in '68.
- Well, we sure as hell chewed some of the same dirt, sir.
In a way, commanding a battalion is a question of compromise, keeping a team together.
We’re putting the band back together.
Together again. Gee, it’s great to be together again.
We spend our lives in search of the other half.
And you never paid for drugs. Not once.
What the fuck are you? A drug counsellor… or a drug dealer? If you don’t deal your own product, what kind of businessman are you?
The key to this business is personal relationships.