Don't give (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Gregory McNamee]

A small matter in the Larger Scheme of Things, to be sure, but Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is berating the entire unit (whom he endearingly calls "maggots"), not just Private Pyle, with these memorable lines:

"If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit."

As events show, a somewhat gentler approach might have served him better...

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