- Private: Sarge, you got any advice on how to stay alive in Vietnam?
- Sergeant Cota: Yes, I do, Private. Don't go.
- Staff Sgt. Thomas: Any questions?
- Bozz: I got a question, Sergeant. If I'm dead, how come I can ask you a question?
- Sergeant Cota: Private Wilson! Private fucking Wilson! Private Wilson, look at me, goddammit. Look at me! You will place your weapon on safe, you will raise your weapon above your fucking head or I will blow your fucking brains out!
- Soldier Boy: Well, the fellas say that if you don't wanna go to Nam, you better pray to Jesus or talk to Roland Bozz.
- Bozz: Damnit Cantwell! Shit man. Shit! Fuck, I don't even know you, man! You sittin' there telling your fucking stories. You make me want to fuckin' cry! What's that about?
- Bozz: My friend here wants to go for the experience, Sergent. Says he ain't scared.
- Sergeant Cota: Good luck, Private. You ask me, I'll stick with the smart and the scared.
- [first lines]
- Paxton: [voice-over] My father said the army makes all men one, but you never know which one. He didn't know Roland Bozz.
- [last lines]
- Paxton: [voice-over] I never saw Bozz again. Some guys said he died in Nam, but he was never listed. Some said he just disappeared over there. One guy called me and said he thought he saw him in Mexico a few years ago with a beautiful woman. But knowing Bozz, he'd be pissed off I was talking about him anyway.
- Sgt. Filmore: [after a demonstration on electrocuting someone's balls]
- Sgt. Filmore: Hey soldier, no one said you could leave.
- Bozz: Why?
- Sgt. Filmore: Why what?
- Bozz: Why would I want to do that to another human?
- Cantwell: Doesn't it strike you what that means? How each one of us is a little bit of everything, and everything is shit.
- Capt. Saunders: You are pissing your life away.
- Bozz: Well, I don't need the fucking army and I don't need the fucking war to tell me that, Sir!
- Staff Sgt. Thomas: What's the purpose of this cluster fuck?
- Bozz: [spoken quickly] Wilson tried to switch targets with Cantwell, Sergeant.
- Wilson: What?
- Jim: [talking quickly] True Sergeant I saw him do it!
- Pvt. Roland Bozz: [Bozz, trying to read a book while on the transport truck, but very annoyed by what Pvt. Wilson is saying] Jim could you finish readin' this for me. I gotta get some fresh air and, get away from this guy.
- Sergeant Cota: - Gentlemen, it's all about respect.
- Sergeant Cota: Respect for your superiors who are trying to teach you.
- Sergeant Cota: Respect for yourselves and your unit
- Sergeant Cota: And most important... respect the enemy.