Battleground

Hansan:
This is an M-1, semi-automatic, high velocity...

Holley:
That's P.F.C. to you major as in praying for civilian

Holley:
We've had good deals before, but this is the best one yet. This is great. I don't ever wanna go back. I found a home in the army.

Holley:
Yeah, they really shoulda sent out a bigger patrol.

PFC. Johnny Rodriguez:
Do you want to goof off?

Holley:
Who said anything about goofing off?

PFC. Johnny Rodriguez:
Nobody. I'm just saying, the best way is to tell them you heard voices talking in German.

PFC. Donald Jarvess:
Let's say we heard voices talking in Japanese and let G-2 figure that out.

Holley:
Let's not try to reach China this time, hey Bettis?

Bettis:
Well there's no sense digging if you don't go deep.

Holley:
The last one we dug one together, you went so deep that when I climbed out in the morning I got the bends.

Holley:
That the new platoon leader?

Holley:
For six months, maybe. Then seventeen weeks at OCS and he's an officer and gentleman by special act of Congress.

Pvt. Garby:
What time is it, Hanson?

Pvt. Hanson:
11:30.

Pvt. Garby:
What? It can't be that late. We left at two o'clock.

Pvt. Hanson:
11:30 AM, Garby. Central Standard Time. Pretty near lunchtime in Springfield.

Pvt. Garby:
You mean you never changed your watch?

Pvt. Hanson:
What's the use of changing your watch?

Pvt. Garby:
What's the use? You're here, you're not in Springfield, Illinois.

Pvt. Hanson:
I hear you...

Holley:
What's going on?

Sgt. Kinnie:
Me and General McAulliffe decided to move I Company up on the line. That is if you agree.

Sgt. Walowicz:
I want three volunteers to go out on a patrol, you, you, and you. You're in charge, Holley.

Holley:
Why am I always volunteering for patrols? I'm just a cowboy.

Sgt. Walowicz:
Feeling any better?

Sgt. Walowicz:
He's really bad.

Pvt. Bettis:
Yeah, he's a cinch to go back to the field hospital, maybe even to Paris.

Holley:
I don't know. With that penicillin, he's liable to be back in a day.

Pvt. Bettis:
Yeah, a good, clean flesh wound is better. Then they gotta send you back.

Pvt. Donald Jarvess:
Only one thing gets me. When you work on a newspaper, I'd get those wire releases and know I was the first person in town who had the news, all the news. I guarantee you my wife knows what's going on in Bastogne. All I know is what's going on in the 2nd squad of the 3rd platoon of I company.

Pvt. Donald Jarvess:
That's great. Artillery, can't miss. They've got Rodriguez to use as an aiming stake.

Sgt. Kinnie:
Tell Walowicz to send out for Rodriguez as soon as the barrage lifts.

Holley:
With what, a sponge?

Pvt. Jim Layton:
The dreams are getting better all the time. I was back home in Baltimore loading up on hard-shelled crabs and beer.

Holley:
That dream's against regulations, soldier. You know what our boys overseas always dream about.

Pvt. Jim Layton:
Mom's blueberry pie?

Holley:
Why, certainly. That's what we're fighting for. Boy, when I get home, just give me a hot dog and a slice of that pie. Am I gonna kick when I don't get my job back? No siree.

Pvt. Jim Layton:
I thought Holley was running away. That's why I ran after him.

Pvt. Donald Jarvess:
How do you know what Holley was thinking? How do you know if he was thinking at all? Things just happen, then afterwards you try to figure out why you acted the way you did.

Pvt. Jim Layton:
I know why I ran. I was scared to death.

Pvt. Donald Jarvess:
You just joined the biggest club in the army. Everybody belongs.

Lt. Teiss:
You sure they were enemy tanks?

Pvt. Donald Jarvess:
We saw them, Lieutenant.

Lt. Teiss:
You think we got enough anti-tank grenades to do any good?

Sgt. Kinnie:
We ain't got any. Mind if I make a suggestion, Lieutenant?

Lt. Teiss:
What?

Sgt. Kinnie:
Well, sir, our usual defense against tanks is to call for artillery, and then to run like a jackrabbit.

Lt. Teiss:
We got orders to hold these positions.

Sgt. Kinnie:
Well, sir, let's call for artillery and keep our heads down, then.

Lt. Teiss:
We could send out some bazooka men... if we had any bazookas.

Sgt. Kinnie:
Save it, Layton. They'll be getting a lot closer, and we'll still be here.