Taking Chance

LtCol Mike Strobl:
[Noticing Annie had typed "HOT soldier" into her phone] Actually, it's Marine.

LtCol Mike Strobl:
I stayed home. I was trained to fight. If I'm not over there, what am I? Those guys, guys like Chance... they're Marines.

Charlie Fitts:
And you think you're not? Want to be with your family every night - you think you have to justify that? You'd better stop right there, sir. You've brought Chance home. You're his witness now. Without a witness, they just disappear.

[First Line]

LtCol Mike Strobl:
Once per quarter we'll give you a run down on battalion and squadron level readiness and today's briefing will focus on First Marine Division.

[Last Line]

LtCol Mike Strobl:
Hey, Hi I'm home. Come here. Group Hug. How you guys doing?

Rich Brewer:
Nobody in my family's in the military and none of my friends. But I thought about joining up. Yeah, but I was too chickenshit. [chuckles, then silence] Sorry, I mean too chicken.

LtCol Mike Strobl:
You can say sh*t.

Rich Brewer:
Oh, cool. And plus the whole haircut thing. I'm in a band and, you know, you gotta keep it long to keep the ladies happy.

1st Lt. Dan Robertson (Chance Phelp's platoon commander):
[voiceover, from his 09 April 2004 letter to the Phelps family] It's ironic, but I am certain that if the world had more men like Chance Phelps, there wouldn't be a need for a Marine Corps.

LtCol Mike Strobl:
[voiceover] Chance Phelps was wearing his St. Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I watched them carry him the final fifteen yards. I felt that as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. When they put him down in his grave, he'd stopped moving. I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died. But today, I miss him.

"He was as easy in friendship as he was fierce in battle"

Or,

He was as fierce in battle as he was easy in friendship."

Not sure which is correct.