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Confrontation of Desires and Boundaries
Zack Mayo
What do you want? You want to fuck? Is that what you want? You wanna fuck? All right, come here. Get on the bed. Take your clothes off. I'll give you a good fuck.
Paula Pokrifki
Where's that coming from?
Mayo
Get on the bed.
Paula
I wouldn't fuck you now if my life --
Mayo
Then get the hell out of here, because I don't need this shit.
Paula
I don't know who you think you're talking to, you know. I'm not some whore you brought in here. I'm trying to be nice to you. I'm trying to be your friend, Zack.
Mayo
Well, then be a friend. Get out of here.
Paula
Fine. Fine. You know, man. You ain't nothing special. You got no manners. You treat women like whores. And if you ask me, you ain't got no chance of being no officer.
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Facing Reality in Military Aspirations
Lynette Pomeroy
Oh, Sid, let's do it right now! I wonder where we'll get stationed? I've always wanted to go to Hawaii!
[after Sid asks her to marry him]
Sid Worley
Honey, we're not being stationed anywhere. I DOR-ed.
Lynette
You what?
Worley
I DOR-ed. I wasn't cut out to be a pilot. I was faking it. I've been faking everything up to now.
Lynette
But what'll we do? Where would we go?
Worley
Oklahoma. I'll get my old job back at JC Penney's. Hell, in two years, I'll be floor manager. You're going to love Oklahoma! You and mama will get along great. Money might be tight, so we'll live at home. It's going to work out.
Lynette
Sid, there's no baby.
Worley
What?
Lynette
I'm not pregnant. I got my period this morning. There's no baby, Sid.
Worley
I'll be god-damned. What do you say we get married anyway? I love you! I don't think I really knew that till just now, just this second. I have never been happier in my life than I have in the last seven weeks. I've never felt so relaxed, and I've never felt so loved for who I really am. Lynette, marry me. Make me the happiest man in the whole world.
Lynette
I'm sorry, Sid, but I don't want to marry you. I really like you. We've had ourselves some really great times, but I thought you understood. I want to marry a pilot. I want to live my life overseas, the wife of an aviator. Damn you! God damn you! Nobody DORs after 11 weeks! Nobody!
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Confronting Relationships and Emotional Disconnect
Paula Pokrifki
Zack, when you're through with a girl, what do you do? Do you you say something or do you just...disappear?
Zack Mayo
I never had a girl.
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A Tribute to a Mentor's Influence
Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
Congratulations, Ensign Mayo.
Zack Mayo
I'll won't ever forget you, Sergeant.
Foley
I know.
Mayo
I wouldn't have made this if it weren't for you you.
Foley
Get the hell out of here.
Mayo
Thank you, Sergeant.
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The Harsh Reality of Military Training
Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
I know why most of you are here; we weren't born yesterday. Before you get to join United Airlines and sell them what we teach, you gotta give the Navy six years of your life! Lots of things can happen in six years, including another war. And if any of you are too peace-loving to dump napalm on an enemy village where there MIGHT be women and children, that's what I'm here to discover...! I expect to lose half of you before I'm finished. I will use every means necessary — fair and unfair — to trip you up, to expose your weaknesses...as a potential aviator, and as a human being. The prize at the other end is a flight education worth $1 million! But first, you gotta get past ME.
[to the newly arrived recruits]
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Desperation Among Friends in Crisis
Lionel Perryman
Shit. I am not going to make it. Help me out, Sid. You got a spare, man?
[takes out a belt buckle]
Sid Worley
My spare sucks. You know where the hardware store is.
Perryman
Zack, I need a buckle, man.
Zack Mayo
I can't risk it.
Perryman
You still have plenty of time, man. He's still up with the girls.
Mayo
Can't do it.
Perryman
Hey Zack, I got to see my family, man. I couldn't take it if he didn't let me out of here this weekend.
Mayo
Wouldn't want you to get an honor violation, Perryman.
Perryman
Okay.
Worley
Attention on deck!
[as Foley enters]
Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
In every class, there's always one joker who thinks that he's smarter than me. In this class, it happens to be you, isn't it, Mayo-naise? Perryman, Worley, let us have this room. On the double.
[pokes the ceiling tile above Mayo's bunk, revealing his contraband]
Perryman
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Worley
Stow it!
Foley
Mayo, I want your DOR.
Mayo
No, sir. You can kick me out of here, but I ain't quitting.
Foley
Get into your fatigues, Mayo. By the end of this weekend, you'll quit.
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Consequences of Personal Struggles in Training
Zack Mayo
What's going on. You didn't kick him out? Hey, wait a minute. Did he tell you what he's been going through?
[sees Foley off-boarding Worley]
Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
It doesn't matter what he's been going through. That's the whole purpose of this zoo. What does matter is that he freaked out for some reason at 25,000 feet, and that can't happen, ever!
Mayo
You don't understand, sir. He's got a girl in town. She's pregnant. She's put him through hell!
Sid Worley
It don't matter. That don't matter.
Mayo
Don't matter? What do you mean? You've got two weeks left. You're out just like that?
Foley
It can still happen to you too, Mayo-naise.
Worley
He ain't bullshitting you, buddy.
Mayo
I'm talking to you, motherfucker!
[to Foley]
Worley
Don't fuck it up for you, man!
Foley
What did you call me?
Mayo
I thought the DIs were supposed to help everybody out around here. What kind of human being are you?
Foley
You better lock it up, boy. You're gonna be going home with him!
Worley
Zack, go back to the barracks, please.
Mayo
I don't get this. He's the best candidate in the class, the best student, best leader, the best friend to everybody. Can't you bend your god-damned rules for once?
Worley
Zack, he didn't ask me to DOR. I went to him.
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Recognition and Pride in Accomplishments
Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
Hey, this is really wonderful work! Where'd you get this, Mayo?
[pulls a patch off Mayo's arm, revealing his tattoo]
Zack Mayo
], Philippines, sir.
[[w:Subic Bay Naval Base|Subic Bay]
Foley
I thought I recognized the work. Be proud of them wings. They're the only ones you're gonna leave here with, Mayo-naise!
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Uplift to New Heights of Belonging
Taglines
It will lift you up where you belong.
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Request for a Private Meeting
Zack Mayo
Sir, this officer candidate requests permission to see you in private, sir.
Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
Mayo, the whole class already knows about Candidate Worley, and we're sorry.
Mayo
Oh, I bet you are. I want to see you in private, sir.
Foley
Not now. I'm busy.
Mayo
Now!
Foley
Forward!
[to candidates]
Mayo
Sir, I request permission— Sir, this officer candidate requests permission to see you in private, sir!
[Foley continues drilling]
Foley
Not now. I'm busy. So are you. Now get cleaned up!
Mayo
I don't need your shit! I came back to quit. DOR!
Foley
Platoon, halt!
Mayo
I don't need you. I don't need the Navy. I don't need anybody.
Foley
Okay, Mayo. I see what you want. You said you wanted to meet me in private? You got it!
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Courage and Love in Adversity
Taglines
Life gave him nothing, except the courage to win... and a woman to love.
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Cautionary Advice on Local Relationships
Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
Not all the obstacles that can trip you up are on this base. Let me tell you something about the local girls. Ever since there's been a base here, there's been what you'd call the Puget Sound Debs. The poor girls come across the sound on the ferry every weekend with just one thing in mind, and that's to marry themselves a naval aviator. A Puget Deb will tell you, "Don't you worry about contraceptives. I've got that all taken care of." Don't believe it, sweet pea. A Puget Deb will do anything and say anything to trap you. I know this sounds silly, especially in this so-called modern age, but you scuzzy college pukes should watch out, because they're out there, and you, sweet peas, are the answer to their dream!
[to the newly-arrived male recruits]
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Selfish Ambition in Military Training
Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
You only give a shit about yourself. All your classmates know it. Do you think they would trust you behind the controls of a plane? You'd probably zip off in my F-14 and sell it to the Cubans.
Zack Mayo
No, sir! No, sir! I love my country.
Foley
Sell it to the Air Force, Mayo. Sell it to the Air Force! Talk to me. Now why would a slick little hustler like you want to sign up for this kind of abuse?
Mayo
I want to fly jets, sir.
Foley
My grandmama wanted to fly jets.
Mayo
I wanted it since I was a kid!
Foley
We're not talking about flying here. We're talking about character!
Mayo
I've changed. I've changed since I've been here.
Foley
The hell you have.
Mayo
I've changed, sir!
Foley
No, you've just polished up your act a little bit. You just shined it up! Now tell me what I want to hear. I want your DOR.
Mayo
No sir.
Foley
I want your DOR.
Mayo
I ain't gonna quit.
Foley
Spell it! D-O-R.
Mayo
I ain't gonna quit!
Foley
Yeah, then you can be free. You and your daddy can get drunk and go whore-chasing together!
Mayo
No, sir!
Foley
DOR.
Mayo
I ain't gonna quit!
Foley
Alright then, you can forget it! You're out!
Mayo
Don't you do it! Don't you— I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to g— I got nothing else.
Foley
All right Mayo, on your feet.
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Confrontation Over Allegations and Emotions
Lynette
I don't want no Okie from Muskogee! I can get that right here, in Port Angeles; a dime a dozen, they are!
[justifying why she dumped Sid]
Mayo
You little bitch! Who the HELL do you think you are? Playing with people like that! He LOVES you! And you just shit on him! You made this whole thing up, didn't you? There was never any baby, was there?
[beat]
Lynette
Of course there was a baby! I would never lie about something like that! Would I, Paula?
Mayo
You selfish tramp!
[stares at Lynette with disgust, then walks away]
Paula
God help you.
Lynette
You're no different than I am, Paula!
[as Zack and Paula are leaving]
Paula
We both know that isn't true.
Lynette
Oh, yes, it IS!
[as the door closes behind them]
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