Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: The M16A2 service rifle is a lightweight air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine-fed shoulder weapon. It fires a 5.56 mm ball projectile at a muzzle velocity of 2,800 feet per second. This is my rifle. Repeat after me.
Sgt. Siek: Your mission is to kill me. My mission is to kill you first. And I'm good.
Marine in Barracks: Them paintball bullets, they hurt?
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Sir, the Drill Instructor looks fabulous in his uniform, sir.
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: I wanted the pink mist.
Kruger: Okay, yeah, sure, fine. I'll take the fucking pills and a year later my asshole will turn inside out and start talking to me.
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Okay, stop stop.
Kruger: This pills aren't worth a shit.
Sgt. Siek: Kruger, you country motherfucker.
Kruger: Me? I had a choice either join the marines or go to jail. And you know what the shit of it is?
Troy: Yeah, if you'd gone to jail.
Kruger: Don't spoil the joke asshole. If I'd went to jail I'd be getting out today.
Dettman's Wife: Who's fuckin' around now, Bryan?
Troy: What's up with the make-up? I thought Texans were tough.
Kruger: I burn easily so fucking sue me.
Troy: Fuck politics. We're here. All the rest is bullshit.
All Marines: Yeah.
Troy: I love it out here, this is what I want - 'cause I count for something. Back home, I'd be working some nowhere job, nobody'd even know I was alive. 'We burn the fat off our souls, '... Hemingway said that.
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Field fuck.
Reporter: What did he just say?
Sgt. Siek: He said field fun.
D.I. Fitch: Jesus, Joseph and doggy-style Mary.
Cortez: This is what life is about, boys.
Fowler: She's a big bitch, Cortez.
Cortez: She's not big, she's beautiful, and she's beautiful because she's pregnant! That's what life is about.
Sgt. Siek: I don't give out too many special treats. But this morning we have a very special treat. Private Swofford here is going to play reveille for us. Okay, Swofford, play reveille.
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: I don't have a bugle, Staff Sergeant.
Sgt. Siek: You don't have a what?
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: I don't have a bugle.
Sgt. Siek: Oh no. No, no. Damn, damn. You better play it with your mouth.
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: What?
Sgt. Siek: I said play it with your God damn mouth.
Sgt. Siek: Now to the rest of you, do you have what it takes to be the meanest, the cruelest, the most sadist unforgiving mother fuckers in God's cruel kingdom?
All Marines: Yes, Staff Sergeant.
Sgt. Siek: Will you be able to one day say, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the baddest mother fucker in the God damn valley?"
All Marines: Yes, Staff Sergeant.
Sgt. Siek: We shall fucking see.
D.I. Fitch: What the fuck are you even doing here?
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Sir, I got lost on the way to college, sir.
Sgt. Siek: Details, gentlemen, details! Details is gonna be the difference between you killing your target or your target killing you.
All Marines: This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting and this is for fun.
