RECRUIT: I don’t like it when the drill sergeant says, “I’m only going to tell you once” or “I’m only going to show you this once.”

STANDARD GI: You’ll learn to get used to it.  Got to learn to take consequences in stride.

[Later]

WALLIE DOVE [DRILL SGT.]: I’ve heard that you’ve heard the scuttlebutt that unpleasantness, which can lead to poor morale, is skirting its way up your training wheels and legs.

WOMAN ARMY DOCTOR: HUH-HUM [WALLIE’S coterie is not all men].

WALLIE DOVE: [Looks at his superior in rank, smiles playfully perhaps, but takes new tone, that of an actor, Charles Bronson conversing with Jan Michael Vincent].

‘You’re either dead right–or dead’. Charles Bronson to Jan Michael Vincent. Who can tell me the movie? [no response] The first one to tell me gets to pick the next movie Friday night.

copyright John Rubens 01-18/2018

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