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On my feet! Yes, sir!

Ah boy, it's a sand -to -sand shower.

Ain't yours?

Connor, get up. Get up. Don't say nothing. Come on. You're on your feet.

Take it out.

Connor.

Connor.

It's Hanson, Sarge. What the hell are you waiting for? Call for help.

Marine down. Marine down. Requesting emergency med back ASAP. This is Bravo

Zulu. Anyone up this creek?

Marine down. Marine down. Requesting emergency med back ASAP.

This isn't actual. I repeat, this is not an exercise.

This is not an exercise.

Stop that, Tyler.

So is he going to be a vegetable?

Please wake up, baby.

I was so afraid when Terrence joined the Marines.

I thought they were going to send him off to Bodnia, somewhere where he might

get hurt.

I never thought it would happen here.

Tyler, why don't you take your mother to the lounge for a cup of coffee?

I need to speak with these officers.

No need. I have to go to work.

But I'll be back as soon as I get off. You have my work number. Terry should

wake. I'll call you at the first sign.

I just never thought he'd get hurt here.

Never.

What you looking at?

PFC Hanson suffered his concussion in a simulated artillery explosion during a

landing exercise yesterday.

He's been in a coma ever since.

But he didn't get these from an explosion.

The investigating officer reported that PFC Hanson was sleeping off a drunk on

the beach and that he got the bruises in a bar fight.

There was no alcohol in his blood.

Or drugs.

He could still have been bruised in a brawl.

Not a brawl.

A beating.

I believe somebody beat him and left him on the beach, which is why I requested

a JAG investigation.

You don't trust the Charlie Company investigator, Lieutenant Tease?

Tease answers to his company commander, Captain Overton.

Lieutenant, you're implying the investigation was a cover -up. All I

the six months that I've been here, I have treated injured Marines from

Company twice as often as any others on this base, especially African -American

Marines. Now you're implying the assault, if there was one.

Was racist.

Numbers don't lie.

Well, Lieutenant, if what you say is true, you've done the right thing

us in.

Thank you.

I just hope you're wrong.

So do I, Lieutenant.

Probably went to med school on the Navy bill, and now she's working to pay him

back. Can't wait to get out and establish her own practice.

No ring.

She's single.

Unlikely she's even in a relationship. She has no use for military types, and

she's working too many hours to socialize off the base.

Sir.

Nicely done, Sherlock.

But I was referring to her accusation that Charlie Company's commander's a

racist. It'd be damn hard to achieve the rank of captain in the Corps if you

were a racist.

But not impossible.

No, but it would take more than a young doctor's opinion before I accuse a

Marine Corps captain of being a racist.

If she was white, would you feel differently?

No.

PFC Hanson could have got those bruises in a fight, in an accident, or in a

racial assault. And we'll never know for sure until he wakes up.

What if he doesn't wake up?

I told you Duke's bluff couldn't be taken by a frontal assault.

I could have if your men didn't stop to build sand castles. Lieutenant Rab and

Lieutenant J .G. Austin, Jag.

Captain Overton. Captain Lee.

This is Captain Overton.

Is something wrong?

Uh, no.

Can we speak to you alone, Cap?

If it won't take long, I have an assault to plan.

Lieutenant?

Scuttlebutt has it. You're investigating PFC Hanson's accident.

Scuttlebutt is correct, as usual.

I had one of my officers investigate.

PFC Hanson was sleeping off a drunk on the beach and unfortunately got caught

a simulated explosion.

He had no alcohol in his blood, sir.

By the time he had blood taken, it was probably out of his system. And the

bruises on his body?

Lieutenant Tease believes they're a result of a bar brawl. Lieutenant Tease

nothing in his report to substantiate that.

Tease!

He just left for the motor pool, sir. Get him back now.

Yes, sir.

Lieutenant Sanford is behind this, isn't she?

An injured Marine is behind this, Captain.

Did you have problems with Lieutenant Sanford, sir? Yes, I've had problems

the doctor.

She doesn't seem to understand that we train warriors here.

And sometimes they get hurt. She seems to think Marines in your company get

injured more than others. They do.

I train them harder than anyone else.

The more they sweat in training, the less they bleed in war.

You sent for me, sir?

What made you believe PFC Hanson was involved in a bar brawl?

It happened before, sir.

After Liberty last weekend, he came back beat to hell. Did he say he was in a

fight?

He didn't give any explanation, sir. Did you learn it from his buddy?

P .S .C. Hanson doesn't associate with other Charlie Company Marines.

Who does he associate with? I have no idea, sir.

The minute he's off duty on Friday, he leaves, and he doesn't return until

Monday morning muster. So you assumed he was in a fight while on liberty, and

based on that assumption, you assumed his current bruises were the result of a

fight.

Yes, sir. Do two assumptions make a fact, Lieutenant?

Not necessarily, sir. I'd like to see Hanson's service record.

I asked for it, Lieutenant, not the captain.

Yes, sir.

Not a very thorough investigation, Kev.

Apparently not.

But believe me, I'll rectify that one. No, sir.

We will.

Hanson's file, sir.

Here's your file, sir.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

PFC Hanson's been with us a little over a month, sir.

But even in that short time, it was clear he wasn't a Charlie Company

He just didn't want to get with the program.

How do you get Marines like Hanson with your program, Lieutenant?

Ork them twice as hard, sir.

And if they don't comply with Charlie Company standards?

We get them there, sir.

By calling a code red?

That's strictly in the movies, Lieutenant.

There's no such thing as a code red in the Corps.

What about blanket parties?

Not in Charlie Company, sir.

We'll return this one with the ground.

Yes, sir.

Why didn't you bring up what Lieutenant Sanford said about the African -American

Marines, Captain Overton?

Come on, Meg, the man isn't black.

That doesn't mean he's not a racist.

No, but it's highly unlikely, and I'm not about to accuse a captain,

a black captain, of racism without solid evidence.

What's in Hanson's service record?

He was honor man in his platoon at recruit training, first in his class in

combat training.

Jive with what Lieutenant Teeth said he's been like here.

Lieutenant Teeth and Captain Overton are covering.

Covering what?

I mean, if he's as squared away here as he was in training, they'd be happy to

have him.

Anything else in there?

On graduation, he requested assignment to the 3rd Marine Division on Okinawa or

the 2nd at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

So he requested a foreign assignment or the East Coast?

From back East?

No, L .A.

Hey, Harm, get this.

Since arriving at Charlie Company, he's requested a transfer twice, neither of

which Captain Overton approved.

He said he wasn't a Charlie Company Marine, if that's so.

Why would Captain Overton not approve his request for a transfer?

Because it's not Overton style.

He'd rather throw a blanket party to square him away. Only they didn't count

Hanson getting caught in an explosion.

What, they dump him on the beach where they know he'll be in the middle of a

landing? That's a little crazy even for Marines.

Nothing's too crazy for Marines.

Fly one of those, Lieutenant?

Hell of a close support aircraft.

I'm not here to chit -chat about the tactical abilities of the Harrier,

What I want to know right now is why your men ambushed us on the beach.

They weren't there to ambush you.

They were on a mission.

To harass us.

Why would they do that?

To keep us from finding information pertinent to our investigation.

That doesn't make sense.

That beach was sweated by amphibious landing.

Everything on it was pounded into the sand and washed away by the tide.

Like Charlie Company wanted PFC Hanson to be?

If you have evidence of any Marine under my command intentionally tried to hurt

PFC Hanson, lay it out!

But don't accuse my men of something you can't back, Lieutenant.

Why did you deny Hanson's request for a transfer?

I don't like quitters.

PFC Hanson was an outstanding marine in boot, an outstanding marine in infantry

training. Why was he substandard in Charlie Company?

Training commands are not line units.

I'm sure there are pilots who get their wing and can't hack it in the fleet.

Captain, you are way out of line. If you knew why... Here's the word, Lieutenant

Austin.

I don't know what happened on the beach that night, Captain.

But now, more than ever, I'm certain you do.

And when I uncover what it is your height, your career in the Corps will be

over, Captain.

Harm, you had every right.

Shouldn't have done it. I lost my cool.

So you're human.

Somebody in Charlie Company threw a blanket party on that beach and

trying to hide it. What if he didn't know?

That captain knows everything that goes on in his command.

Well, he was surprised Lieutenant Tease didn't have evidence to back his report.

What if those guys on the beach weren't there to grab us?

He didn't apologize and he didn't offer to help us look around.

He was right. The landing pounded everything in the sand.

I remember. You didn't want it that way.

Maybe.

He found a coin off that rack.

Hanson never made it back to his quarters after the weekend.

At least that's what Lieutenant T said about him.

Learned to do that.

Law school.

Looks like he has a girlfriend.

Pinky's photos.

Crenshaw Boulevard, L .A.

Think he's who he's been spending his weekends with?

If it is, why'd he put in for a transfer?

To get out of Charlie Company.

Before coming to Charlie Company, he applied for duty everywhere but the West

Coast. Maybe it's not Charlie Company he's trying to get away from.

Maybe join the Marine Corps to get away from her.

Mac, look at this.

Their hands.

Those are gang signs they're flashing.

Looks like hook 'em horns.

Hook 'em horns?

Longhorns. University of Texas. You know, hook 'em horns.

You know what that means in Italy?

You've been cuckold.

Oh, my God.

Well,

that explains it.

What?

When I was in Texas, I dated this Italian pilot who was on an exchange

at Laughlin. You dated a pilot?

Once.

I took him to a Texas -Oklahoma game, and every time we cheered, he got

hysterical. I just thought he was weird.

If you knew why, would you have dated him again?

Maybe. Because you know, if you date one pilot...

So, how are we going to find out if these are gang signs?

Well, send a copy to the LMPD. They'd know.

Or better yet, you talk to Hanson's mother.

You know, the Marine Corps would never have accepted him if they knew he was in

a gang.

Silverton knew it would explain the blanket party. He'd do anything to get

of him.

All he'd have to do is turn him in as a gang member.

Maybe that's not as much fun as breaking him.

That doesn't feel right.

You know, Hanson's mother should be back in the hospital by now. Why don't you

cover her, and I'll handle the blanket party angle. I'll do that.

Hi.

That had better be hook -em -horns.

That's Nia. She was Terrence's girlfriend.

What? You know teenagers. They fall in and out of love every week. What about

the other boy?

I don't know.

Terrence had a lot of friends.

Gang friends?

Terrence wasn't in a gang.

He was too smart for that.

What about Tyler?

Tyler's just a baby.

I ain't no baby.

No, you're not.

That's why I was just asking your mother if you were in a gang. I ain't in a

gang.

Tagged your brother's cast with gang graffiti.

Man, that ain't gang graffiti. That's just doing.

Besides, they don't mean nothing.

I suppose these signs they're flashing don't mean nothing either.

Yeah, that's right.

They were just goofing.

Who was?

I don't know.

I never saw him before.

Your mother just told me that Nia's your brother's girl.

Yeah, that's probably right.

He had a lot of girls.

Was he coming home on his weekend liberty?

Of course he was.

Liked my peach cobbler.

And was he beating one of those weekends?

Nobody beats on my brother, all right? They wouldn't dare.

Why not? Because he's in a gang?

Why don't you go swab a deck or something? Tyler, you don't talk like

young man.

Where are you going?

To get a soda.

Hey, Tyler.

Guess what Dennis Rodman did this week?

He dyed his hair green.

Just like that boy in the movie. What was that actor's name?

Oh, you used to love him in Quantum Leap. Dean Stockwell.

If you were here now, I'd have him call Ziggy and get me the truth.

I didn't know Hanson had gone Elvis after the first formation, sir.

I reported his absence to the TNT.

Last I thought about it, we found him at the beach.

Captain never asked you to push certain Marines harder than others.

Sometimes I have to focus on individual Marines to help them realize their full

potential.

Like throwing a blanket party?

Never, sir.

Come on, Sergeant. We both know they happen. I've heard rumors some companies

use them to help lost Marines find their way.

But not Charlie Company, sir. According to Lieutenant Keith, Private Hanson had

lost his way.

Hanson didn't seem to want to be here.

But no blanket party?

No, sir.

Spit it out, Sergeant.

Charlie Company is the best combat unit in the world.

Sometimes we have to focus on an individual Marine to help him realize

potential. Like PFC Hanson? He was below Charlie Company standards, sir.

But he wasn't the only one.

Who were the others?

Carter? Stiles?

Morgan?

How many of them were black?

Simple question, Sergeant Moon. How many of the other Marines were black?

All of them.

If I found out Hanson was in a gang, you can bet Captain Overton dead.

He had his men throw a blanket party to punish him. It got out of hand, and now

he's perfect.

I don't think there was a blanket party.

Overton's hard on his men, especially the blacks, but not because he's racist

sadistic. I think he wants them to be better than the rest.

Then who beat up Hanson?

Overton knows.

He didn't want us on the beach because he's afraid we'll find something.

But what?

If I knew that, I'd be the opposite club right now buying you a beer.

Come on, boy!

Dig! Dig! Dig!

You want to get rid of all problems? No, sir! Run, Hanson!

You keep that up, you make BFC in the air, too. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

What is your problem, Stiles?

You turn.

Yes, sir.

Private Connors.

Sir, yes, sir.

Private Stiles is off to Tokyo Radio while he digs. Yes, sir. Right, Private?

Yes, sir.

What's this exercise, Captain?

The men are cleaning the beach of mines.

Captain be dead the way they're going about it.

The mines are dummies, Lieutenant.

Uncovered any?

Not yet.

Captain!

That's what you're looking for, sir!

Open it, Corporal.

Crack.

Pretty lethal dummies you bury here, Captain.

Crank.

Crystal meth. Highly addictive, just as deadly.

Maybe $100 ,000, $150 ,000 in here.

You're savvy when it comes to drugs.

Know your enemy.

Putting that in a cork, Captain, or in the streets?

We pulled your record. You're from Compton. That's gang territory.

Des Moines, Iowa has gang turf, Lieutenant.

Is everybody from Des Moines a gangbanger?

Or just black?

I am not a racist, sir. You think like one. And you, sir, act like one,

out black Marines, setting impossible goals, punishing them if they don't

them. Lieutenant, when I look at my men, the only color I see is Marine green.

If that were true, PFC Hanson could have come to you with his problem.

What, how to push drugs on the base? I think his problem was he didn't want to

sell drugs.

Charlie Company didn't throw him a blanket party. Maybe his old gang did.

No.

No. If it were true, he could have come to me.

He was white.

The blacks in your command know they can show no weakness, make no mistakes,

have no problems.

I just hope your partner on them had the motivation to succeed as you did.

Could be you're just angry at the color of your skin.

Son, we have to talk.

We can't do that with you asleep.

We're hitting the beach at 0500.

Taking Duke's bluff with a frontal assault.

Since he couldn't do it, Captain Lee doesn't think it could be done.

But he didn't have Charlie Company behind him.

Damn it, Hanson, wake up.

Stop talking to you, boy.

You keep playing Sleeping Beauty, and I'm going to stick a hand grenade in

bedpan. What are you doing? I'm running out of patience, Hanson. Stop it. You

have ten seconds to open your sorry eyes, or I'll close them for you

permanently. Call the MP.

What is your problem, Lieutenant? You are, Captain. You're endangering this

kid's life.

He isn't a kid. He's a Marine.

I'm talking to you, Marine.

Trust in us.

Sir.

I've never seen anything like it. Captain Overton ordered him to wake in

he had to woke up.

Is your opinion of the captain's method, Doctor?

No, but I can't deny what he's accomplished.

How you feeling, Marine?

I'm fine, ma 'am.

Now that I have some of my mouthpiece cobbler in me.

Lieutenant Rabb and Lieutenant J .G. Austin would like to speak with you.

They're from JAG. What's JAG?

The Judge Advocate General Corps, ma 'am. You didn't say a judge sent you.

It's not that kind of a judge, Mrs. Hanson. It wasn't his fault.

Mom, why don't you go home and get some sleep?

He joined the Marines. They can get away from them. Mom. The gangs? They won't

let him go.

Mom, please.

It'll be okay, Mrs. Hanson.

Lieutenant Sanford called us to protect your son, not to hurt him.

That's the truth, Mrs. Hanson.

He's a good boy, sir.

Just got in with some bad company. But the Marines straightened him out.

Don't do anything to change that.

Yes, ma 'am.

I just explained everything to Captain Overton, sir.

He said he'd handle it.

I'm sure he will, but we'd like to hear what you told him.

Before I joined the Corps, I was a reaper.

Getting messed up, gangbanging, headed for the mission.

The mission?

The L .A. morgue's on mission road, ma 'am.

One day, Stick gets this flashbulb.

Says he wants a reaper to join the crowd.

The Marines?

Yes, ma 'am.

He wants one of us inside to push crank.

But no one wants to do it, because you gotta go clean for three months to pass

the drug test.

So we shoot craps for it.

I lost.

Lucky you.

At the time, I didn't think so, sir.

But it sure was.

The boot changed me.

I learned that honor, discipline, and respect weren't just hokey words.

The Corps gave me a chance to make something of my life.

That's why you put him for duty station anywhere but here.

Yes, sir.

But here I got.

Unfortunately, that's usually the way it goes.

Why didn't you just stay away from the Reapers?

It's kind of hard to duck them in the hood, sir.

I wanted to see my mom and Tyler and Nia.

She was my girl.

But she's Stick's now.

So Stick met you on the beach with a tackle box full of crank, and when you

refused to push it, he had you beaten.

Yes, sir.

Why didn't you go to Captain Overton?

Because I was afraid he'd boot me out of the Corps.

But I was wrong.

He said not coming to him was a mistake.

His mistake.

And that he'd make things right.

Captain Overton said that?

Yes, ma 'am.

He promised he'd get my brother out for me.

Stick's gonna put him in the mission if I don't push that crank.

She's gonna be back in a couple of hours, sir. We're hitting the beach in a

couple of hours.

Colonel Brooks learns of this, he'll have Overton's railroad tracks.

Or give him a medal. When did he leave?

About an hour ago, sir.

What's going on, Jag?

You don't want to know, sir. The hell I don't. Did Captain Overton take the

crank? No, sir. It's still in the company safe.

Drugs? You're right. I don't want to know. Do you have a vehicle, Lieutenant?

Yes, sir. The keys.

Yo, I set the brother straight. I dropped him down at the beach with the

You understand what I'm saying? How was I supposed to know that the crowd was

going to blow holes in him?

Hey, yo, they did blow holes in the stick.

You know he got a concussion. Shut up, T.

And give me a point.

Why did Papa... This is the proud finished plan in the sandbox.

We'll go back and get it.

You got a

problem, T?

Yo, what up? Nothing now, Chili.

Look at this.

What the hell is this, bitch? Be cool. Nobody gets hurt. One time.

Who is this Rambo, T? My brother sent him.

Payback? No, he just wants Tyler out of the meeting room. Can't do that.

Tyler's down with defect, Rambo.

Somebody bust a cap up in this client. I'm sick, man. You might hit me, too.

Repeat, T.

He said it was down this alley.

Looks like our Marine has landed.

Look familiar?

He's a Marine captain.

Turned son in the Marines?

That's an act of war.

He just wanted a brother. I told you he can't have it.

Rambo.

What you think we ought to do to him, Chili?

I say we just knock him out the box.

Good idea.

Let T do it.

What's the matter, T? You getting kind of sleep?

No, man.

Then whack him hard, because he's hard -headed.

The only thing that can explain him being stupid enough to come up in here

alone. He's not alone.

Ah, look at this.

Rambo 2.

Make that 3.

Man, this is whack.

We're not even safe in our own crib.

Get away from me.

Move it.

Make checking the cap.

You okay?

I've been better.

Damn,

my boy's a bitch.

Toss it here, Top Gun.

You can't bang all of us.

I'm only aiming at you.

Chill.

He puts a cap in me.

I want you to bang him and the prow.

But don't mess up the snowflake.

You might want to melt her down slow.

Your move.

Sucker.

What's it going to be?

Top Gun?

Are we going to be sharing a crib down at the mission, or are you dropping the

Beretta? Neither.

Neither?

Chili.

Smells like a deal.

What you got to offer?

Crank we found on the beach.

Keep talking. We swap.

They crank for Tyler and Captain Overton. No, no. No way, sucker. Shut

I said shut up.

You got it all here?

Pack a box full.

Fetch it on home.

We'll swap on the beach.

Do I look like a fool?

I'm not going into the proud's territory and get our ass kicked to the curb.

Call me when you got the crank in the hood.

3 -5 -42 -22.

Deal?

Deal. Let's go, Megan. No, no.

Snowflake stays here.

She comes with me. It's non -negotiable.

Damn, Top Gun.

I think you need it.

Only one way to find Let

her

go

He needs medical attention.

Ghost, snowflake, before I change my mind.

Go. I'll be okay.

I'll take care of him.

Two hours, Top Gun.

And after that...

Stick will never make the swap, sir.

Once he has the crank, he'll send you to mission.

I'm calling a dungaree, Liberty. Taking Charlie Company in after him. Lieutenant

Tease, they'll pop the captain and be ghosts before you reach 38 and Crenshaw.

Be ghosts?

Disappear. Hey.

Where will Stick make the swap?

He has two or three places that he likes to meet, sir.

Greenacres Park, the parking lot behind Raised Ribs, and the old furniture

warehouse down on Budlong. What's your best guess?

The warehouse, it's isolated and impossible to reach without being

And gunfire there won't bring anyone, sir.

I'm going to need volunteers, Lieutenant.

Experts in concealment.

You can start with me, sir.

You don't qualify, Lieutenant.

We were fooled, Captain.

Walking in here like Rambo to get paid.

I can't argue about that.

Why'd you do it?

My oldest brother.

How is Terrence?

Better.

Yo, Dixon had done that, man.

Hey.

Give me some time alone with Tyler.

Hey,

yo, T, come here.

What for?

Because I said so. Come here.

What?

Babysit this fool.

What you think, chump?

What, you don't believe me?

That piece of crap will blow your hand off if you pop it. The barrel's full of

dirt.

Oh, that's smart. Look down the barrel of a loaded pistol.

Unload it first. Why don't you tell me what to do?

Why not?

Everybody else does.

Want some of this?

Go ahead. Bang away.

They'll be calling you lefty.

Shut up!

Sucker.

Used to be a gang in this hood called the High Ten Gangsters.

They were bad.

Yeah, well, they couldn't have been that bad. They ain't around.

It's because all of them went to mission.

Except me.

You lived in the hood?

Seven, eight hundred, figure one.

Would have been dead by now if my brother hadn't got me out.

Yeah, well, how'd he do that?

I popped in the drive -by.

Seeing him dead put me straight.

Yeah, but you ain't straight, man.

We're just in a different gang, just like Terry's. Yeah, maybe.

But it's kept us outside the chalk circle.

Could keep you out, too.

What, you want me to join the crowd?

You're too young.

a little gunnery sergeant of mine.

He runs a camp for boys like you outside of San Diego.

There's no gangbanging.

It's just discipline and hard work.

You get with the program.

It's fun.

Forget it. You couldn't hack it.

I'm down with the set, ain't I?

Any chump can join a gang.

Get up, Pryor.

It's showtime.

Come on, T.

Top Gun and Snowflake have arrived.

There it is.

Hang a right and park by the dump.

That's the third lookout we've seen in a block.

You can bet there's a few more we missed, too.

They're alone.

You're a man of your word, Top Gun.

How about you?

My word's my bomb.

Check the box, T.

Looks like we're going to get you back in time to take Duke's bluff, Captain.

I don't know if I'm up for that, Lieutenant.

You have to be.

Only you can order Charlie Company to attack.

Saw here, Stick.

Bet you don't own.

I'll bring it when Captain Overton starts back to us.

My hood, my rules.

Move it, Proud.

Come on, T.

T, get in the back.

Blow him away.

I'm going back with him, T.

Who's going to stop this sucker?

Me.

I said blow him away!

Meet a few brothers from the frog, Dick.

We just kicked your ass to the curb on your own turf.

I could have popped you, son. But you didn't. And it's Captain Overton, our

Better get used to who I'm sending you.

I'm not going to J.

That'll get you mad enough to handle Gunny's cat.

Be all that you can be.

That's the Army slogan, Lefty.

You make sure you write Mama.

And I'll talk her into sending you a peach copper in the mail.

All right? You be cool.

Always. I'm sorry, man. It's okay. Come here.

I love you, man.

What the hell is this?

Love Connection? Are you Tyler Hansen? Call me T. I will call you a lot of

names, grunt, but it will not be T.

Now you get your scrawny butt on that bus there before I kick it on.

Better do it, Tyler. Are you death and dumb?

No. No what?

No, sir! Then move it!

Did she know what that means in Europe?

I believe so, Captain. She dated him at the time I left one.

Thank you, sir.

You saved my brother's life. Thank me if he survives.

Gunny Kane makes me look like a pussycat.

I doubt that, sir.

Sir, ma 'am, thank you.

Let us know when you make Lance corporal. Will do, ma 'am.

Well, he may not have been one of the few good men when he enlisted, but he

certainly is now.

No, he's not.

But he will be by the time I get through.