Corporal Josh Ray Person quotes from Generation Kill

Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley

Sergeant, I thought they were going to send us over the bridge in darkness.

Corporal Josh Ray Person

Not retarded enough.

[To Person] Careful with the Ripped Fuel.

Corporal Josh Ray Person

Fuck, man! I'm on thirty hours no sleep! Beat the record I made in high school when I was on the debate team.

Wright

Wait a minute, you were on the debate team?

What's the channel for the 119s?

Corporal Josh Ray Person

[To Colbert] 6-4 and TAD 7. [To Wright] Yeah, I was really really fucking good, but all the other guys on the team thought I was high all of the time.

[on the radio] I don't copy, Hitman 2-3. I don't copy a word you're saying. [annoyed] Every time Batista gets excited, his English goes out the fucking window.

Corporal Josh Ray Person

I mean, he's not even a citizen. He snuck in from whatever fucking greaseball fucking country he's from and now he's a Marine. You know, there ought to be at least some kind of grammar test before you're off here blowing shit up with heavy weapons.

If they did that, fucking buck-tooth cross-eyed sister-fucking hicks like you wouldn't get in either. [Josh grins]

Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley

I don't know why you guys are down on this shit. I'm a Christian.

Theologically speaking, Trombley, the world's been going downhill ever since man first offered entrails to the gods.

Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley

What's that mean? Entrails?

Corporal Josh Ray Person

That religion is gay.

The point, Lance Corporal: we're supposed to be a recon unit of pure warrior spirit. We're out here, 40 klicks in enemy lines, and this man of God here, he's a fuckin' pog. In fact, he's an officer pog. That's one more layer of bureaucracy and unnecessary logistics, one more asshole we need to supply MREs and baby wipes for. And worst of all, worst of all, the motherfucker doesn't even carry a weapon. When push comes to shove even Rolling Stone picks up a gun but this fuckin' shill of God, he can't cover a sector, he'll never hump ammo or Claymores. This is a fuckin' war and we're here as warriors, so on top of everything else that's expected of us do we really need to drag him along and indulge in this make-believe bullshit?

Corporal Josh Ray Person

Oh, no. Now not only do we have to worry about all the Charms you've eaten, but now Brad's just pissed off God.

Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley

Hey Person, didn't your mom put your picture up on the Wal-mart Wall Of Heroes?

Corporal Josh Ray Person

Yep. My grandma did when I went to Afghanistan. I'm on the Nevada, Missouri Wal-mart Wall Of Heroes. I even got my dress blues on.

If my mother ever distributed my likeness without written authorization, I would disown her.

Corporal Josh Ray Person

Technically speaking, Brad, but... didn't your biological parents disown you when they put you up for adoption?

Point, Ray. I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than 2000 years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a whiskey tango trailer park by a bow-legged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver.

Corporal Josh Ray Person

At least my mom took me to NASCAR!

Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley

Your dad's a truck driver?