The Boys in Company C (1978)

Andrew Stevens: Billy Ray Pike

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• SSgt. Aquilla : [the Boys have just arrived for Boot Camp]  Hey goddamnit! You with the fuckin pretty face! What the hell are you spitting on the ground for, what is that shit in your mouth?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Chewing tobacco sir.

  SSgt. Aquilla : Its what?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Chewing tobacco sir!

  SSgt. Aquilla : What the hell are you doing with chewing tobacco in your mouth?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : I don't know sir, I chew when I play baseball.

  SSgt. Aquilla : Do you think this looks like a baseball stadium?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : No Sir it doesn't.

  SSgt. Aquilla : Then what the hell are you chewing tobacco for? Did you get on the wrong fucking train, or did they draft you!

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : No sir, I enlisted Sir!

  SSgt. Aquilla : You did what?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : I enlisted in the Marines Sir!

  SSgt. Aquilla : What the hell would you do a crazy thing like that for?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : [pause] 

  SSgt. Aquilla : Answer me goddamn it!

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : I wanna be a Marine sir!

  SSgt. Aquilla : What the hell for?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : So I can fight for my country sir.

  SSgt. Aquilla : Fuckin turd! Right now I can't stand to look at you! Sergeant get this shit out of my fucking face!

• Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Yeah,well the Captain gave me these, god damnit, cuz my fuckin' foot hurts... all right!... and he also said I don't have to be in your shit eatin' squad anymore.

• Washington : You see that ambulance over there? You get on it. You get to a hospital and you just disappear.

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : I told you once and I meant it. I ain't gonna do nothing I'm gonna be ashamed of.

  Washington : Let me tell you what you got to be ashamed of. You're gonna have a little bastard running around calling someone else daddy. Now that's what you got to be ashamed of. Gunny!

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Uh uh

  Washington : Gunny! We got a man here with brain damage. He's got a concussion and he won't go to the hospital!

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Ah that's cute man, that's real cute!

  Washington : You leave me no choice.

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : All I gotta do is tell em there's nothing wrong with me!

  Sergeant Curry : Pike, I can't use no man with a bruised brain! Now get on the ambulance you disloyal fuck! Understand?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Yes sir.

  [Glares at Washington] 

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : You big lummox! Now you don't deserve this you son of a bitch! You take care of it.

  [Pike takes off his prized baseball cap and gives it to Washington, then picks up his weapon and goes to the ambulance] 

  Washington : You take care of it too. Ole country ass boy.