[1stLt Fick has waved off a group of armed Iraqis riding in white pickup trucks that approached the platoon, after being denied permission to fire on them. These Iraqis later turn out to be Fedayeen, paramilitary forces loyal to Saddam.]
SBSgt Brad "Iceman" Colbert
Our first contact with armed Iraqi's and we wave at 'em... like bitches.
Yo' president is watchin'! Amerikee is watchin'! But more important: Godfather...is watchin'! Make no mistake: There! Will! Be! No! Fuck-ups! Marines around this world, would gives they left nuts to be where you are! Anybody not want to go!?
The question is, why the fuck am I standing here looking at a fucking bridge that doesn't have my fucking Marines rolling across it?
CJCol. Joe Dowdy
Sir, we're thirty mikes from initiating the armored assault to engage the enemy along the MSR through the city. Our problem has been refueling the tanks-
MGMaj. Gen. James 'Chaos' Mattis
Not only 'No', Colonel, but fuck no. Okay? I don't give a rat's ass about the resistance in this city. Your mission is to punch through the city and put RCT-1 north of it where our objectives are. This is just a fuckin' sideshow. You got seven thousand Marine riflemen who have been ready to go for the past twenty-four hours and you're standing here with your foot on your dick. No, check that. Not your dick, my dick. [to Col. Ferrando] Godfather, hold your Marines back for now. If Col. Dowdy here sees fit to un-fuck himself and push through this fuckin' shithole, I'll turn First Recon loose.
See, Trombley asked about shooting people. I asked about pussy. The guy told me I'd get to go to Thailand, get all kinds of strange. What'd you ask about, Brad? Brad probably saw that T.V. commercial, the one with the knight that fucks up the dragon then turns into the Marine.
Fucking dress blues commercial man. That got so many fucking guys. Now look at us: Trombley hasn't killed anybody, I'm half a world away from good Thai pussy, and Colbert is out here rolling around fuckbutt Iraq, hunting for dragons in a MOPP suit that smells like four days of piss and ball sweat.
Look at this, gents. Little more than 48 hours into the war and First Marine Division, out of Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California, is rolling with impunity on Saddam's highway.
[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.
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.
SBSergeant Brad 'Iceman' Colbert
If they did that, fucking buck-tooth cross-eyed sister-fucking hicks like you wouldn't get in either. [Josh grins]