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The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989) More at IMDbPro »

Hafner: Crap's gonna hit the fan Jones, and this place ain't prepared for shit!
Jones: This firebase can't be defended.
Hafner: How many men you got out there that ain't brain dead?
Jones: I've got nobody willing to trip over his own guts for the Vietnamese way of life.
Hafner: I got no delusions about you or your men's democracy Jones. We are gonna refortify this shit hole and protect it like it was your daughter's cherry. I ain't gonna die here.
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[Jones watches DiNardo's men shoot wounded Viet Cong]
Jones: Jesus Christ, they're killing wounded!
DiNardo: Don't tell me you feel sorry for them sergeant.
Jones: There're soldiers just like us, wounded!
[a wounded Viet Cong is shot trying to crawl away]
DiNardo: Yes!
Jones: You having a good time? You're fucking crazy you know that? You're really digging this shit! What were you back home? A rapist?
DiNardo: Oh, no. I was just another dumb ass like you.
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Cao Van: The courage of your enemies does you honor.
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Captain Flanagan: Alright Mr. Commanding Officer, where's the medevac? I've got eight people that are gonna die within the hour, we're running out of morphine, and where are the supplies I ordered?
Hafner: Now you listen to me Flanagan and you listen good! The communications bunker is history! We are on our own. There will be no re-supply. So you tighten up and make do with what you've got. You're a captain? Be a goddamn captain!
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Cao Van: Well, that was another perfect example of how to waste ammunition. Your mortar crews couldn't hit my old grandmother in the ass at two paces! I want better next time. Much better!
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Hafner: I'd like to know where these needle-dick dinks are getting new AK forty-fucking 7's at.
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Pilot: There's a cease-fire. Can't you tell?
Capt. A.J. 'Bugs' Moran: Yeah. We cease, they fire.
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Capt. A.J. 'Bugs' Moran: Six-one-two, this is six. Thirty-second pass over the canopy. Let's burn Charlie's ass. Gunners on your left, you'll notice targets of opportunity. Please fire at will, and thank you for flying Moran Airlines.
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Capt. A.J. 'Bugs' Moran: Six-one-two, this is six. Let them know who we are on the way out
Pilot: Six, this is six-one. I got some rockets left.
Capt. A.J. 'Bugs' Moran: We don't get paid for bringing them home. Leave me some widows behind.
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Hafner: [Sgt. Hafner carries two severed American heads] Anyone know who these belong to? This is Corporal Miller. He's dead. Hell, the whole gun crew's dead. And to add insult to injury, Charlie took the fifty-fucking caliber machine gun with him. I don't have any respect for Corporal Miller anymore, because he allowed his troops to relax. They let their guard down for five fucking minutes, and Charlie took advantage of it. Look at 'em, Goddammit! Pay attention. Stay alert! Stay alive! It's as simple as that!
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Hafner: A little religious communication might not be a bad idea at this stage of the game. Now myself, I don't take any chances, I talk to Mohammed, Buddha, Mr. Jesus H. Christ Himself and any other religious honchos I can come up with.
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[DiNardo is beating and torturing a wounded Viet Cong prisoner]
Captain Flanagan: What the hell are you doing? Leave him alone!
DiNardo: Look lady, this is called "extracting infromation". Do you understand that?
Captain Flanagan: So we torture prisoners now, do we?
DiNardo: You're goddamn right! This ain't Nebraska, lady.
Captain Flanagan: Well you don't do it in my hospital!
DiNardo: Oh no?
[continues hitting the wounded prisoner]
DiNardo: Chot lai! Talk to me!
Captain Flanagan: What kind of animal are you?
DiNardo: Animal? Lady, do you have any idea what Charlie would do if he came in here? He would rape you and your nurses until you're all dead! But you know what? They'd have to kill me first. Animal? I'm no animal.
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DiNardo: Can you stand any more gossip?
Hafner: What have you got?
DiNardo: They're digging.
Hafner: Where?
DiNardo: At the edge of the treeline and they're headed right this way. My little Cong friend tells me that two big guns are arriving in their camp the first thing in the morning.
Hafner: Where's your little Cong friend now?
DiNardo: He probally shaking hands with Buddha right now.
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Hafner: DiNardo, do you think you can get into their camp, make a lot of trouble and ruckus?
DiNardo: Sergeant Major, it's Friday night and you're in Bangkok. You've got a fistfull of dollars. You think you can get laid?
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DiNardo: What's going on here Murphy?
[Murphy points to two teenage Vietnamese girls standing and waving to them at the edge of the barbed wire perimeter]
Pvt. Murphy: There's two girls out there who want to come up here. What do you think?
DiNardo: Bullshit! I smell sappers. Cut 'em down.
[Murphy does not respond]
DiNardo: God dammit Murphy, I said take your weapon and...
Pvt. Murphy: Fuck you man! I'm not shooting unarmed women who...
[DiNardo suddenly grabs Murphy's M-16 rifle from his hands and shoots at the two girls, both hitting them in the chest... and their bodies explode!]
DiNardo: [grabs Murphy by the collar] Now listen up! This is Vietnam, you understand? Even the women have got balls! Instead of them communist armies putting books in their hands and sending them to school, they wrap 'em up in dynamite and they send them off to kill G.I.'s. You got that? That's the enemy, Murphy. That's the enemy! Get it together!
[DiNardo walks off and approaches Hafner standing nearby who has observed the whole thing]
DiNardo: What do you think that was all about, Sergeant Major?
Hafner: I think Charlie just reminded us that he has nothing to lose, and everything to gain.
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Hafner: [Jones has just told Hafner about the presence of female medical staff located elsewhere on Firebase Gloria] The shit's gettin' pretty goddamned deep around here. Is there any nuns or Girl Scouts that I should know about on the firebase?
Jones: That's what happens when you inherit wealth.
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Hafner: Shortwave, get your dumb black John Wayne ass down! Get down!
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