The Boys in Company C (1978)

R. Lee Ermey: Sgt. Loyce

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• Pvt. Vinnie Fazio : What's oh-three-hundred?

  SSgt. Loyce : Oh-three-hundred... basic infantryman.

  Pvt. Vinnie Fazio : Does that mean Vietnam?

  SSgt. Loyce : Goddamn right it means Vietnam, numb nuts. Goddamnit, oh-three-hundred is basic infantryman. Oh-three-hundred is the United States Marine Corps!

• SSgt. Loyce : Move it up until the private in front of you smiles.

• SSgt. Loyce : You met our four new replacements yet? Their Drill Instructors call them the four fucking stooges.

  Washington : Replacements? Man I ain't no fool! Those fucks won't last a week out there and anybody who's gotta depend on them is already dead meat!

  SSgt. Loyce : I don't believe that. But I'll tell you what Washington, I respect your judge of character. Do you think they're any more fucked up than the rest of the shit we got in this Goddam platoon?

  Washington : Ah shit, why don't you just march the whole fuckin platoon out here, blow their damn brains out right here. Cuz your gonna end up killin all of us!

  SSgt. Loyce : I'm not the Goddam one that's killing these people. It's you asshole, you're the one. Not me.

  Washington : That's bullshit. That's bullshit. That's BULLSHIT!

  SSgt. Loyce : Let me tell you something Washington. I've got one hell of a shitty Goddam job here. They send me 60-80 buckets of civilian shit and expect me to train them to be combat Goddam ready Marines. I have to send these people to Vietnam. I'm the one that has to send them. They're gonna come back in bags. They're gonna come back in wheelchairs. They're gonna be maimed, they're gonna fucked up people when they come back. It's up to me how they come back. And YOU, asshole. Washington you're not motivated, you're not motivated at all. You could fucking help me. But no, hell no! You got your goddam head up your ass all the time. You're playing your own silly ass Goddam game. Well I'll tell you one thing dippy, you're gonna start playing my game. Or you're gonna find yourself in combat in Vietnam and you're gonna have Charlie shooting at you from the front and the four fucking stooges are going to be shooting at you from the rear!

  Washington : Sir are you talking to me man to man?

  SSgt. Loyce : Yeah I'm talking to you man to man.

  Washington : Then will you remove your hat sir so I can face you eye to eye?

  SSgt. Loyce : [Removing his campaign cover]  . I don't mind at all Washington if it's gonna help you out.

  Washington : OK so what do you want me to do huh? I mean WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO DO MAN? You want me to be a good nigger so you can match those boys out of the brig? Huh, is that it?

  SSgt. Loyce : No Washington I don't want it. GODDAMMIT I DON'T WANT A GOOD NIGGER! I want a Goddam man that out there pushing these people. Someone that they can trust. Someone that they know is trying to help them. I want someone that they can depend on in Vietnam. I don't want them to be afraid to fall down because they know someone's behind them to pick em up and stand em back up on their Goddam feet! Now you show me that kind of a Goddam nigger and I'll give you a platoon that will stand behind you. A platoon that'll save your ass in combat Washington, and they'll save their own asses too. Teamwork Goddammit! Teamwork!

  Washington : Sir, can you get em back?

  SSgt. Loyce : Yeah I can get them back. But I'll tell you one fuckin thing right now dippy. You start this lone wolf shit again on me and I'll stick you with the maggoty ass bunch of Goddam shit you've ever seen in your life. You are bound to get fuckin killed your first week in Vietnam.

  Washington : Get em back.

  SSgt. Loyce : Have I got your Goddam word?

  Washington : You've got my Goddam word.

  SSgt. Loyce : All right. Go out there and get rid of those four fucking scumbags. Send them back wherever the fuck they came from, and I'll go down to the brig and I'll pull some strings and I'll get our people back.

  Washington : Thank you sir.

  SSgt. Loyce : You don't have to thank me. Shit.

• SSgt. Loyce : Jesus, how the hell do they expect me to train fuckin' marines when they won't even send me human god-damn beings to start with?