They Were Expendable

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
[as they watch the inspectors drive away] Wonderful the way people believe in those high powered canoes of yours.

Lt. John Brickley:
Don't you believe in them, Rusty?

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
And I let you sell me that stuff about a command of my own.

Lt. John Brickley:
You're skipper of the 34 boat, aren't you?

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
I used to skipper a cake of soap in the bathtub, too. [He walks off]

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
Are you kidding, Brick?

Lt. John Brickley:
Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do...

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
And die... but I don't want to be bored to death running messages!

Lt. John Brickley:
I'll see that you get the more intriguing ones.

Lt. John Brickley:
Oh, Snuffy... how about getting some torpedoes from you?

Submarine commander:
For those cracker boxes of yours? No telling when we'll see a mother ship again.

Lt. John Brickley:
How long have you been on patrol?

Submarine commander:
Since the day the war started.

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
What did you get?

Submarine commander:
Two small freighters. We had hard luck.

Lt. John Brickley:
Well, while you've been cruising around the Pacific, those 'cracker boxes' have sunk two converted cruisers, an auxiliary aircraft carrier, a 10,000-ton tanker, a large freighter, a flock of barges and numerous sons of Nippon!

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
And also in our brief career, we've carried more messages than Western Union!

Submarine commander:
Well, look, I'd love to help you out, fellas. But you know, I got orders...

Lt. John Brickley:
Snuffy... who played the leading lady in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in 1932 at the Academy?

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
And does your crew know about it?

Submarine commander:
[after a long pause] How many do you want?

Lt. John Brickley:
You've got sixteen?

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
We'll take eight.

Lt. John Brickley:
And we'll try and put 'em where they belong.

Submarine commander:
Thanks.

[walks away slowly]

'Slug' Mahan T.M. 1c:
Mr. Ryan, this has gone far enough! That 41 boat is always hoggin' the good jobs, sir.

Seaman Jones:
We'll get all the soaking we need on our way up to hit the Japs, sir.

'Squarehead' Larsen SC 2c:
What are we gonna do, sit around on our duffs till they get back, sir?

Ens. 'Snake' Gardner:
41 can't handle this job alone... sir.

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
How about it, sir?

Lt. John Brickley:
Okay. But if she starts taking water, turn back. Sir.

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
Listen Brick, for years I've been taking your fatherly advice, and it's never been any good. So from now on, I'm strictly a one man band!

Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
Listen sister, I don't dance!

Ens. 'Snake' Gardner:
[tasting liquid from a tureen] Holy smokes, Cookie, you call that soup?

'Squarehead' Larsen SC 2c:
No, sir. That's dishwater.

Ens. 'Snake' Gardner:
[stunned, places the ladle back in the pot] Well, uh... right, carry on. [exits]

'Doc':
Yes, sir.

'Squarehead' Larsen SC 2c:
Ensigns!

John Wayne's quote From movie "They were Expendable" of Poem with the words "The Sailor home from the sea; The Hunter home from the hill."